They speculate that the distribution of upload capacity to peers is one of the underlying reasons. To find out what might be responsible for these speed differences the researchers reverse engineered both BitTorrent clients. On 10% of these ISPs, uTorrent users were downloading 30% faster than Vuze users. More detailed analysis revealed that uTorrent users get faster downloads on all of the 30 most used ISPs, except Verizon where there was virtually no difference. On average uTorrent users reached a 176 Kbps download speed while Vuze users were stuck at 151 Kbps on the same torrents and with the same ISPs. The research revealed a remarkable speed difference with uTorrent users getting 16% higher download speeds than Vuze users.
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For each torrent an equal number or uTorrent and Vuze users were selected and these were also matched by ISP, so the type of torrent or ISP could not influence the results. The torrents were tracked for a month and a representative sample of one week was used for the final analysis. The results have been collated in a short paper ( pdf) and it turns out that there are some big differences between the two BitTorrent clients.Īs an initial sample the 600 most popular torrents on the Pirate Bay were used. In an attempt to determine which of the two get the best download speeds, University of California researcher Marios Iliofotou together with colleagues from Telefonica Research inspected the download speeds of more than 10 million BitTorrent downloaders last August. If we leave out China, the two applications together hold three quarters of the market share which equals close to 100 million users a month.
For nearly half a decade uTorrent and Vuze have been two of the leading BitTorrent clients.