So a bunch of people in this subreddit told me that uTorrent was trash and to switch to QBitTorrent.

I didn’t think much of it. How could one be so much better than the other? They’re both just torrent downloaders.

Holy shit was I wrong. I don’t even really understand what is happening, but downloading torrents on QBitTorrent is so, so, so much faster and I don’t even understand how.

A movie downloads in basically seconds compared to 10 or 20 minutes on uTorrent.

Why is this? What is this magic? What makes QBitTorrent so much faster?

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    10 months ago

    I don’t know if uTorrent does ratelimit torrents someway (they shouldn’t be by theory), but it being adware is enough of a result to switch to another torrent client.

    I’m more of a fan of Deluge, but alternatives like qBittorrent / Transmission are solid choices.

    • SterbenDeathGun@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      Trasmission never worked well for me, on the other hand qBittorrent did the job perfectly.