New uTorrent & Connecting to it...

anybody else find that it takes quite a while longer than normal to begin downloading from users of the uTorrent v.1800 ?

Usually if I try to download someone's torrent, or even just a part of it to see if it's working, I connect straight away. Or near enough. But lately it's been taking me ages to connect to some users & that they use uTorrent 1800 seems to be a common factor. It happened most recently when I tried to help seed a torrent to tomsapples and now when trying to download one from Noodle.

It's something I'd noticed a couple of times prior to those two examples, but I can't think of who or what torrent in those cases. I wasn't paying attention & thought it was maybe a one off, or something slow at my end. But now I'm thinking maybe it's uTorrent 1800.

PS. I like uTorrent, so I'm not knocking that - I still use uTorrent 1.6.1 myself

yeah m8 i have stuck to using 1.6.1 and i notice connection issues as for the noooodle torrent it took me ages to connect

There are a few probs with the new uTorrent 1.8 that I have found after using uTorrent 1.77 which worked just great. For instance, the ability to update a single tracker is no longer available (you can update a multiple of ? (8-10 ?) amount of trackers at one time though) and the layout has changed quite a bit. I will be switching back asap as I really don't care for this new version and should not have installed over the 1.77 but did like a big dumb ass. kick me in the butt

Thanks for that info Barfdog.

I don't think you need a kick up the butt though. It's normal to update to a newer version of software.

Some sites don't allow utorrent 1.8 e.g. xxx-xxx