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I had been using Azerus as my BitTorrent client and was reasonably happy with it. It has lots of features and settings to mess with but the torrents I was downloading (Non-copyrighted material, naturally) tended to take ages and ages to complete. This didn't seem unreasonable as what I was downloading tended to contain ~22 files of ~350MB each. A further annoyance was my inability to use my computer to browse the internet while Azereus was running. Although it shouldn't have taken the entire internet connection bandwidth, I just assumed that my ISP was throttling me or that the numbers weren't as straight-forward as they seemed. So for a while I was content with download speeds averaging 10Kb/s with occasional spurts to 16kb/s.

Then I was reading an article and it pointed out that uTorrent had an extremely small footprint (~500Kb) and that it took correspondingly less memory. So when I had a chance I downloaded and installed it. HOLY CRAP! Did that make a difference. It didn't bog down my computer's memory, it didn't hog the processor and the download speed have hit an all-time high of capping out at 85kb/s. I managed to download an entire seas.... um large set of non-copyrighted files in about sixteen hours! I had been trying to finish up another large set of non-copyrighted files for fricken weeks! It wasn't a terribly popular torrent but uTorrent flashed through it in about two hours.

Now, don't get me wrong. I don't necessarily thing this is because uTorrent is the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, it worked quite well for me.