Today sees the release of the highly anticipated update to the most popular bittorrent client: uTorrent 2.0. One of the major changes to uTorrent in 2.0 is the addition of the Micro Transport Protocol (uTP). The uTP aims to reduce network congestion and interference between uTorrent and other network-using applications – this is one of the reasons ISPs throttle torrent traffic and uTP aims to solve that issue.
For the end-user the benefits of uTP are faster downloads thanks to less network congestion, and faster web browsing while uTorrent is running. For ISPs, less congestion means that the torrent protocol is gentler on their network, which should benefit them as well as other users using the network. And for those wondering if the interface has changed, it has, but only slightly (see the screenshot below).
You can download/upgrade to uTorrent 2.0 by downloading it from here. If you need to downgrade to 1.8.5 for whatever reason, you can grab it from us here
