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[BT] µTorrent 2.0.3

Thanks for that, Alcohol

Thanks!

bleh, why does everything come with ask.com now...
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reply to Alcohol
Someone from somewhere else keenly observed that:

In what cases could disabling UDP tracker be useful?

reply to siljaline
Anyone having trouble downloading this through the software itself? Twice now it has tried to run the internal updater and then failed to download the new version.
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That happened to me. I stopped my torrents and re-started utorrent. It worked.
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reply to siljaline
I'm still using 1.6.1 because at the time of the next update, there were some privacy concerns (IIRC) about the new vers..

Have those fears been refuted? Should I upgrade?

If you were concerned about it enough to still be way back on 1.6.1, you should use a different client, preferably open source. There will always be concerns about new utorrent versions because it's impossible to serve 2 masters with such opposite interests(MPAA/RIAA who bought Bram Cohen who bought utorrent vs filesharers). My advice to anyone who asks is to steer clear. People have choices of good clients without such questions surrounding them on pretty much any platform. utorrent offers nothing unique of value to the table, with today's choices.
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reply to jimboe
You should updgrade, there comes a point where old software is rendered like Swiss Cheese from a security standpoint.

uTorrent 2.0.3 is fine and stable - turn off the phone-home stuff and you will be current.

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What's boiling in uTorrents's idea bank I find a bit disturbing.

Sorry for late follow-up

reply to Doctor Four
I don't use uTorrent's infernal, errr .... internal update engine since they are in bed so bad with Ask.com, you don't know what you're going to get

reply to jimboe
jimboe , you can try new version 2.0.3 and then switch it back to 1.6.1. It's easy to do. Keep your 1.6.1 executable file, download the new file v.2.0.3 and run. It will ask to install itself. Allow it to run, but un-tick all options it offers (11 options on several wizard pages). At the end it will start the new version, which will keep all your old setting and stats. Then, at any time later on, you may run your old v.1.6.1 version again and it will install it back.

I do it all the time switching between 1.8.5 and the latest versions. And the reason is - I'm not happy with the latest development... While v.2.0.3 is a bit better, then its close predecessors, it still in some cases slow. And under "slow" I mean it may start downloading (and/or uploading) some torrents with the speed around 1 kB/s or even less and there is nothing I can do about it... I switch to the old version and may see a different story (with the same torrent, of cause). They may start use some different throttling technique and it may slow down the exchange dramatically out of nowhere.

With the uTorrents the newest is not necessarily better. Watch for other clients used around ("Client" column) and compare how they behave, it may give you some ideas...

BTW, anyone knows where to find old uTorrent's files?
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On oldapps perhaps?

»www.oldapps.com/

Thank you, odinb ! That's exactly what I was looking for.
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