maritimerjb Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 I have utorrent installed and some sites ask me to choose torrent or magnet link. Which one is the recommended one to download. Is one quicker than the other or make my pc more vulnerable to hackers? I am new to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5618 Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_LinkIf you are using a torrent client, you may as well use torrent. There is no real difference in speed or vulnerability, but not all torrent clients (like µTorrent, I think; see last line of the Wikipedia intro) support magnet links, so you don't want to use them then because other µTorrent users won't be able to click them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funchords Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 According to the FAQ, uTorrent does not support Magnet links, but the FAQ did leave open hope for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 Dunno... magnet link support was supposed to come with Azureus DHT support, but last I recall, the latter feature was scrapped (or at least the chances of it being done is extremely slim at the moment). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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