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uTorrent doubles userbase
Author: Gareth HalfacreePublished: 29th April 2008
This graph, produced by TorrentFreak, shows the massive growth uTorrent has experienced in the last year.
The survey published by the pro-file sharing group uses data gathered by PC Pitstop on a sample of one million Windows PCs located in North America, and shows that the popular LimeWire package has lost around a quarter of its user base since 2007. The BitTorrent client uTorrent, on the other hand, has enjoyed a doubling of its installed user base in the same time period.
While LimeWire still accounts for a huge 37.9 percent of the file sharing market, uTorrent has grown to encompass 13.51 percent – a figure which is rapidly rising. Interestingly, the uTorrent software is more than twice as popular here in Europe as it is in the US, with 11.6 percent coverage compared to 5.1 percent in America.
Another interesting statistic to come out of the survey is that, according to TorrentFreak, “based on the amount of traffic that is generated by each P2P application, uTorrent would be the absolute winner.” This shows that the plucky little BitTorrent client is the popular choice amongst the more, shall we say, 'hardcore' data shifter, with LimeWire being the common man's choice for the occasional download.
With more and more companies using BitTorrent as a distribution method for perfectly legitimate files it's a market many software houses will be looking to break in to, and uTorrent – owned by the BitTorrent corporation itself – is certainly looking like the package to beat.
Anyone here have a preferred BitTorrent client, or do we all download our Linux distros and games patches the traditional way? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
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Comments (29)
Incidentally, yes, I and everyone i know uses Utorrent.
I used to use uTorrent on Windows though and they feel very similar
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I used to use TorrentFlux, but that had a tendency to eat CPU and s**t bandwidth, as it used PHP to call the Python command-line client multiple times (Which would pretty much peg the CPU with a few torrents going at once), whereas BTG is very nice and streamlined, has a good multi-user web interface, oh and it auto-resumes downloads properly, which is something I couldn't get TorrentFlux to do.
Ain't it the truth? I love the simplicity.
thats alt+0181, µ, pronounced 'mew'!!!!!!
01811 8181 yeah!
Lol, brings back memories of children's programs.
Anyway, I've used a fair few torrent clients in my time and µtorrent is by far and away the best, it's the perfect match between stability, accessibility and functionality.
Nah, "micro torrent" :)
I use rTorrent cos it has the DHT stuff in it (something that was missing in ktorrent)
i still prefer uTorrent, it has things like moving completed torrents/downloads - which none of the linux ones seem to
*Ticks both boxes* yep, ktorrent has them now too, it's really matured and the plugins are nice too.
oh wait, does ktorrent run without a gui?