Utorrent v3. what are your experience ?

[LazyGuy]

Since Bittorrent Corp. wants to turn it into a social app, I've looked into alternatives like qBittorrent and Deluge.

As I told megabyteme on that news thread, you might want to check Halite out. It has all the "essential" features and a small footprint. The great client no one uses.

halite has some memory and cpu usage issues according to Gizmo's Freeware http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...ent-client.htm
also its not as widespread as utorrent on tracker whitelists due to lesser popularity

is there any way to manually remove all the extra crap in utorrent 3?
like the toolbar and chat and all that potentially threatens privacy and security of the user?
that is strip it to the core

is qbitorrent accepted in all major Trackers?
like BCG IPT BG FL

[ca_aok]

I might just start running rtorrent via cygwin.

[superpagla]

Guyz...I used 4 or 5 BT clients and nothing is so good and simple as utorrent.....I don't know about the webUI Client but Utorrent is the the client for the rookie, for the pro and for the best type of home user....yesterday evening I installed deluge and was testing it...they said the r going to add "initial seeding" later...Deluge don't have the many features like utorrent...sometimes the deluge won't start and I have reset...etc etc etc...Then I felt sad....uninstalled the whole deluge with GTK+ and cleaned my PC....

[Evelyn]

or any good stealer get their source-code and build a good one

Fixed that for you.

aren't it was open source before the acquisition :X

Since Bittorrent Corp. wants to turn it into a social app, I've looked into alternatives like qBittorrent and Deluge.

As I told megabyteme on that news thread, you might want to check Halite out. It has all the "essential" features and a small footprint. The great client no one uses.

The cur*rent release is v 0.3.3.0 revi*sion 1205 as of 16th August 2010. dev discontinued ?

is there any way to manually remove all the extra crap in utorrent 3?
like the toolbar and chat and all that potentially threatens privacy and security of the user?
that is strip it to the core

Chat is an app inside the client you can install from app tab,
about stripping the things from the binary .. i wonder if those kind of res-hack is possible.. hash will not match to the original client result in immediate ban in trackers :S
so end result in negative :S

[bijoy]

utorrent 1.8.5 build 17414 FTW!!!!Never upgraded that. Working smoothly for me for past 2 years

as it is old version some private torrent sites does not allow this.

At least BCG allows this version anf that's enogh for me.

I might just start running rtorrent via cygwin.

the best idea. If I ever come back at private trackers in far future, I would use this udea, as after vuze, bittorrent inc. in going down.

[anon]

funkysourav: thanks for the link and tip. It's still worth a try, however. The reviewer himself said resource usage was very low for him.

The cur*rent release is v 0.3.3.0 revi*sion 1205 as of 16th August 2010. dev discontinued ?

Indeed it's been a while since the last update, I've also posted that in the news thread.

about stripping the things from the binary .. i wonder if those kind of res-hack is possible.. hash will not match to the original client result in immediate ban in trackers :S
so end result in negative :S

Not necessarily (there is no "hash" sent to the tracker). You may be able to edit some UI things via resource hacking (e.g. that stupid drop box at the bottom of the category list), but I've never done that, and don't know what the consequences may be. It'll never be as efficient as if the crap wasn't there to begin with, though.

If anyone wants a list of the IPs and strings I remove from the executable, I can post that. I think I've already done so once.

[Evelyn]

about stripping the things from the binary .. i wonder if those kind of res-hack is possible.. hash will not match to the original client result in immediate ban in trackers :S
so end result in negative :S

If anyone wants a list of the IPs and strings I remove from the executable, I can post that. I think I've already done so once.

What is the significant of removing them ? if its related to my privacy & not chance to get banned in tracker i would love those ....

[anon]

They're just a few IPs and hosts which are said to be "bad". I cannot confirm that nor claim removing them will make you 100% secure.

Since I'm already posting, here they are.

239.192.152.143
239.255.255.250
http://update.utorrent.com/hang.php
download.utorrent.com
update.utorrent.com
http://search.utorrent.com/search.php?q=%U&e=%U&u=1&source=%U
llsw.download3.utorrent.com
ll.download3.utorrent.com
http://update.utorrent.com/uninstall?type=%s-%U&h=%s
http://update.utorrent.com/installoffer.php
/crash.php?ver=%dU&h=%s&p=%dU&pr=%dU&s=%dU&svp=%d&ov=%d

IPs are changed an invalid one (000.000.000.000), the others are filled with null characters.

These are to bootstrap DHT, i.e. get initial nodes. I don't usually remove them.

router.bittorrent.com
router.utorrent.com

These I haven't tried removing yet. Doing so may or may not (are there any other possibilities?) break something. The ones colored red may make the installation wizard crash.

http://apps.bittorrent.com/store/store.btapp
http://apps.bittorrent.com/discoverContent/discoverContent.btapp
http://apps.bittorrent.com/utorrent-onboarding/welcome.btapp
http://yogi.apps.bittorrent.com/track/?data=%s&ip=1
http://apps.bittorrent.com
http://%s/checkupdate.php
http://%s/updatestats.php
http://%s/installstats.php
http://%s/offers/ut-en-conduit-20110330.exe
http://%s/offers/ut_conduit-20110119.bmp

[cherio]

Since Bittorrent Corp. wants to turn it into a social app, I've looked into alternatives like qBittorrent and Deluge.

As I told megabyteme on that news thread, you might want to check Halite out. It has all the "essential" features and a small footprint. The great client no one uses.

I haven't tried that one yet. Thanks for the recommendation

[ca_aok]

Why don't you just redirect those to localhost in your host files instead of patching the executable? Neglecting anon, who is likely patching *other* stuff in.