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The Best Alternatives to uTorrent on Windows

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It is without a doubt that we have a great time using uTorrent when it was uTorrent and not uTorrent owned by BitTorrent Inc. Well, we don't like it now because the owner put up many junk on it and far more worst, it has loads of annoying advertisement. Which is why we have searched for an option or should we say replacement for this program.

And last day, we've stumbled on one site that offers 4 alternatives to uTorrent for Windows. It is on howtogeek.com that we've discovered amazing replacement for the uTorrent program and we want to share it to you. Well, we all know that aside from games, all our readers are techies and you know how wonderful of a program is uTorrent....

So, let's cut to the chase and see what howtogeek.com recommends for us as an alternative for uTorrent.

Deluge is an open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It uses libtorrent as its backend. It has a plug-in system and supports all the features you’d expect: BitTorrent encryption, DHT, peer exchange, magnet URLs, UPnP, RSS, bandwidth scheduling, per-torrent speed limits, a web interface, and more.

This program is built with a client-server architecture — the Deluge client can run as a daemon or service in the background, while the Deluge user interface can connect to the daemon. This means you could run Deluge on a remote system — perhaps a headless server — and control it via Deluge on your desktop. But Deluge will function like a normal desktop application by default.

Deluge’s interface looks awfully familiar — it looks like uTorrent before the BitTorrent company started shoving advertisements into it. The installer doesn’t try to sneak garbage onto your system, either.

Transmission is a popular BitTorrent client on Mac OS X and Linux. In fact, it’s installed by default on Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions. Unfortunately, Transmission doesn’t officially support Windows.

The Transmission-Qt Win project is an “unofficial Windows build of Transmission-Qt” with various tweaks, additions, and modifications to work better on Windows. Transmission uses its own libTransmission backend. Like Deluge, Transmission can run as a daemon on another system. You could then use the Transmission interface on your desktop to manage the Transmission daemon running on another computer.

Transmission has a different interface that won’t be immediately familiar to uTorrent users. Instead, it’s designed to be as simple and minimal as possible. It dispenses with a lot of the knobs and toggles in the typical BitTorrent client interface for something more basic. It’s still more powerful than it first appears — you can double-click a torrent to view more information, choose the files you want to download, and adjust other options.
Like Deluge, qBittorrent is an open-source BitTorrent client based on libtorrent. This project is up-front about its goal: “The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent.” We definitely need one of those!

Because it’s based on libtorrent, it provides all the features you’d expect — the same ones found in Deluge. Its interface is designed to be similar to uTorrent. It’s available for Windows as well as Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD — and even OS/2!

Mirodeserves an honorable mention — it’s a media player that includes a BitTorrent client with RSS support. It uses libtorrent as its backend, too. However, it’s a pretty heavy application otherwise, and it’s really only ideal for downloading videos or audio files you want to play in Miro.

Credits: Special thanks to howtogeek.com for sharing this on their blog.

If you want to see the whole details of their post, you can check it out here http://www.howtogeek.com/197542/the-4-best-alternatives-to-utorrent-on-windows/ later.

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