BlueDragon Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Can someone explain me what / where is the difference between Bittorent and uTorrent? I mean especially at functional level (besides the name, the size, the logo, the devs etc.)...Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Wrong: the devs are the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueDragon Posted July 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 Nothing.Oh yes I expected an answer like that... With BitTorrent around 1.5MB and uTorrent around 300KB... I guess it's to have the people, who might think that with 300KB uT cannot be a good application, to download BT... @schnurlosYes devs might be, the boss (ordering and finally getting the bucks) I don't know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 BT DNA (if that is still included in BitTorrent). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Well, DNA is distinct from the mainline BitTorrent application itself, so I wouldn't quite consider that as a difference between the two Indeed, it could contribute to the increased size. The download comes with the Ask.com toolbar comes bundled with the installer for BitTorrent too, which adds almost 1MB to the installer -- not a functional difference between either application either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxwil Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Does DNA actually help in BT downloading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 DNA is for certain sites that want to distribute content (mostly transparently) through BitTorrent. I think even ASUS uses it now for driver downloads... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxwil Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 I know that, but does it help in the usual torrent downloads?By the way, is BitTorrent updated simultaneously with µTorrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Usual torrent downloads? No.And it's usually updated shortly after µTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Morris Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 The difference between BitTorrent and uTorrent is currently minimal.BitTorrent is bigger than uTorrent as it is installed by an NSIS installer and it bundles a toolbar (which is installed only if it is accepted). The separate BitTorrent DNA client is not bundled with BitTorrent any more. uTorrent has no NSIS installer and downloads a toolbar only if the user accepts it, so the downloaded package is much smaller. uTorrent 1.83 and BitTorrent 6.2 are functionally the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxwil Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Just installed BitTorrent client in a different system; looks like the icons are different. Is there any future plans to deviate the BitTorrent development away from µTorrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Morris Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Current practice is to put out a BitTorrent stable release based on the latest uTorrent stable release a week or so after the corresponding uTorrent client goes stable. uTorrent has an alpha and beta program but BitTorrent does not. In general if you want a "good" Bittorrent client, then it doesn't really matter which client you use. If you want to be sure to have the most up-to-date release then use uTorrent. For cutting edge features in alpha and beta builds you must use uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxwil Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Was the development team changed or replaced after the takeover by BitTorrent or is the original µTorrent team still working on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Morris Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 The original µTorrent client had no team (so far as I know) - just Ludde - BitTorrent has a team - the BitTorrent team has been working on the client for the last 2.5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoomProof Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Also - because uTorrent now reliably hangs my PC after between 10 - 60 mins, I have now switched to BitTorrent.Hoping the team effort delivers a more stable program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hz Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 i created a some torrents in Bittorrent, and downloaded some files with it as well, which completed. i've had them all seeding away smoothly while fetching just an occasional new thing recently.well i decided to start using utorrent instead, but utorrent doesnt' recognise many of my torrent files. after stopping and forcing rechecks, a few are now recognised. othersare not. and OTHERS, utorrent has appended the suffix !ut to, so that BITTORRENT no longer recognises them!WHAT A PAIN IN THE ARSEi wish there had been some forewarning of this. so now at least someone may take caution from my experience and not migrate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Or maybe you haven't looked into what could have caused them to break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 @DoomProof: Just so you know. It is unlikely µTorrent crashed your system on its own. Usually it is the intensive system (i.e. hdd and net) use of µTorrent that certain programs (firewalls, virusscanners, other security software, malware, file indexers, the list goes on) aren't able to handle.µTorrent itself doesn't nestle deep in your system and as a result is unlikely to directly cause crashes. But if programs that do nestle deep contain bugs or are badly coded µTorrent might be able to bring that to the surface. Kinda similar to how doing heavy exercises might cause dormant heart conditions to surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hz Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 dreadwingknight, if your remark there was a response to my post, the torrents had been fine in Bittorrent. Not broken. perhaps utorrent has some special brand of torrent it prefers, and, that being the case, proceeded to break my torrents for Bittorrent. if you have any practical information to offer I will consider it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Media indexers will re-tag audio and video files, corrupting them as far as ANY torrent client is concerned.ANY changes to files will cause such problems.mp3 files are most prone to such changes.perhaps utorrent has some special brand of torrent it prefersNo it doesn't. It follows the spec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hz Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 Thankyou DreadWingKnight for your suggestion. However no media indexer has been involved. The Torrents were not corrupted for one of the set of ANY Torrent clients, as I said before; namely Bittorent. And none of the files concerned is an MP3.As to utorrent not preferring some special brand of torrent, I beg to differ. To be clear, by brand, I don't mean a proprietary product name. Utorrent, and no other entity, has done something to those torrents that has rendered them unusable by Bittorrent. I had Bittorrent working fine, then installed Utorrent. I opened the torrents for the first time in Utorrent, and then the next time I opened Bittorrent saw them all register errors there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 Then your computer system is quite likely screwed...scandisk for hard drive damage/corruption! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 I had Bittorrent working fine, then installed Utorrent. I opened the torrents for the first time in Utorrent, and then the next time I opened Bittorrent saw them all register errors there.This doesn't prove you right, nor does it prove me wrong.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=29748 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueDragon Posted September 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 @ hzMay it be possible that your torrents where only partial (selective) downloads?Besides if uT appended !ut than that may be a reason for BT considering that the files should be downloaded again.In any case before you migrate or reinstall I would advise you to always first make a backup of all your downloaded torrent data (as well as the .torrent files and even better I'd include include the uT or BT .dat files) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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