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uTorrent 1.7 Stable Finally Released

July 13th, 2007 | P2P

The latest stable version of our favorite P2P client, µTorrent is finally available for our downloading bliss. utorrent

After 5 months of development, we finally have Version 1.7 stable.

The major changes include:

  • Vista Support
  • Removal of the 65,536 piece limit for torrents (faster speeds)
  • Option to auto update to beta versions
  • Local Peer Discovery (if more than one PC from your LAN is connected, then there’s no effect on speed)
  • New treeview-based add torrent dialog (makes it easier for selective downloads)
  • Doesn’t force an immediate recheck when download path changes, checks on next start
  • And hundreds of bug fixes

Still the feature to Ban peers is not included.

I’m currently using the 1.7 version and all these days I was using the Version 1.6.1. One issue that I’m facing in my Laptop is when I open µTorrent, the icon disappears. Otherwise it’s good release and there’s no issue with the speeds.

Download 1.7 Stable | Version 1.7 Change Log | µTorrent

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9 comments ↓

#1 Nihar on 07.13.07 at 1:17 pm

Is this better than bitcomet? want to know whether you used bitcomet before.

I never tried this.

#2 Ashwin on 07.13.07 at 1:34 pm

Nihar-
I must have tried almost all the torrent clients including BitComet.

BitComet is a bad client (in terms of sharing) and many trackers have banned it and discourage users to use it.

IMO utorrent is THE BEST torrent client. :D

#3 Vijay on 07.13.07 at 8:49 pm

Nihar, honestly, BitComet sucks, period. I used it on advice of my friends and it really was no good. I even tried azureus(too heavy) and finally settled with utorrent and I can vouch that it is the best I’ve seen..

Small size, no install(in my case) and great speeds..

#4 Nihar on 07.13.07 at 9:56 pm

Thanks vijay and ashwin,

Just now downloaded and installed mtorrent. will start using.

BTW, ashwin do i have to change any setting like increasing half tcp/ip . i remember i did that in bitcomment.

#5 Ashwin on 07.14.07 at 9:12 am

Just play with the settings. Set max connections, BW limit and all that. There’s no real “one size fits all” settings that will work for everyone.

#6 Shwetz on 07.15.07 at 8:34 am

updated it yesterday only…. though it sometimes jst quits itself… after 9 hrs or so

#7 Ashwin on 07.15.07 at 9:17 am

^^
Never noticed that quiting problem (maybe I didn’t use for a long period of time), only that it’s not ’saving’ in my Laptop, dunno why..

#8 Nihar on 07.17.07 at 2:15 pm

I started downloading Apne and Awarapan using mtorrent. the download speed was not going beyond 40 KBps then i stopped it and started in bitcomment and both went above 400KBps. Any reason why it was slow in mtorrent?

#9 Ashwin on 07.17.07 at 7:11 pm

Hmm… you get to play around with the settings. Cap the upload limit to 80% of the max., slots and all that jazz. Then you should be ok.

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