uTorrent also known as mircoTorrent is a small, lightweight very feature rich Peer-to-Peer download client that uses Torrent files to download the actual files from the net. It connects to the Tracker where all clients get the torrent information and based on that info, it gives you the connection to different users who have the files and then helping each other to finish the download process. We use this to download almost everything.
So here's some of my tricks on how to maximize uTorrent's Full Potential.
- Use the RSS Downloader - I recommend to read and understand how RSS downloader works. This will help you download files by filtering it from the RSS feeds. Those feeds are from the torrent trackers that generate list of torrents published on their site. If you want to stay updated on the files you want to download let say for example a series, you can use RSS downloader to filter the series based on their name corresponds to the file.
- Use The Bandwidth Schedule - Scheduling the utorrent's bandwidth is one thing you need to consider if you don't have enough for your network. Let say, someone's watching a Youtube video at arround 6pm and the problem is uTorrent hogs your bandwidth too much that they can't buffer any videos.. So by scheduling uTorrent's bandwidth, you can still download files while giving some internet activity to others.
- Queue your Downloads - If you have lots of torrent to be downloaded , try not to download them all at the same time that way, you will never get so much fragmented files in your hard drive and will enable you to finish the files faster. but if that file doesn't have enough resources or seeds, it will automatically download the next torrent queue based on the download ratio ( you can set this thing up on the uttorent's preferences)
- The Webui - The webui is a feature of uttorent that will enable you to remote access your utorrent as if as it were the real thing via a browser. it has almost the same controls of the actual program and you can add, delete, set files priority etc. here's my webui with a custom title name and in seperate window mode.
This is my Torrent rig's Webui
If you want to activate your webui, go to your uTorrent's Options > Preferences
under preferences, click the Advanced at the left side list and under it, you'll see the Web UI
check the enable Web UI and put a Username and password information.
The guest is optional if you want to view your webui in limited mode
for advance setup, check the Alternative Lisenting port and put port 88 on it.
the rest, leave it and click OK,
to test your webui, open chrome (or any web browser) and type on the address bar: 127.0.0.1:88/gui
at first it will ask you to click to download the webui interface, after the download finished, it will refresh and a popup window will ask your username and password, after that you will be navigate to your webui's interface.
you can use the IP of your PC to view the webui, e.g. 192.168.1.20:88/gui (assuming this is your computer's LAN IP)
for you not to enter the username and password, you can also do this:
<username>:<password>@<IPAddress>:<PORT>/gui
digitalpod21:1234@192.168.1.10:88/gui
For you to access Webui outside your network.. you can also do that but that's for the advance users. Ill tackle that next time.
to run your webui in chrome as a seperate task you can do this:
-Start > Run
-Type chrome -app=http://digitalpod21:1234@192.168.1.10:88/gui (for example) and Click OK.
You can also view your torrent progress via an Android Phone.. rtorrent is a remote control tool for transmission and utorrent clients. settin up is a breeze.. just follow the things you've done on your webui's configuration and that's it.
and the Last trick for chrome users Download the "remote torrent adder" from google app store for free.
This will enable you to send the torrent files directly to your remote torrent rig instead of saving it to your PC and uploading it to your uTorrent Webui. This is a very useful app to those who have a dedicated torrent rigs!
