Why uTorrent works much better than other BT clients?

sam1275tom

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Hello.

I used utorrent for a long time, but it's getting worse and worse with each version update(ads, malware, etc,) so I did a search and tested some other clients with various seeds:

Group A. uTorrent 2.2.1(last known good version) and latest 3.x version behaves similar.
Group B. Transmission and qBittorrent, latest version, on both Windows and Linux, behaves similar.

The strange thing is, group B generally download much slower than group A, and sometimes they even refuse to work (no speed), I cannot find a explanation about it. They are on the same home network, I also disabled firewall to troubleshoot.

What do you guys think about?

Thanks.
 
My guess is if you are using default settings for all, the difference lies there. I know with uTorrent, changing your preferences from default to those that reflect your ISP connection speed can have a huge impact, such as changing number of simultaneous connections and maximum upload and download speeds.
 

sam1275tom

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Thank you all.
Yes I changed all settings on all programs to be as similar as possible, I set the connection limits to max/unlimited. And yes, I tested the same files at the same time, and more than once.