219

Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

70 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The "u" in uTorrent is actually [greek letter mu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)), which as a SI suffix is pronounced "micro" and means one millionth (10^-6)