Monthly Archives: November 2009

Testing µTP – is µTP actually faster than regular BitTorrent?

Recent coverage of uTP on the popular Torrentfreak blog yielded some interesting feedback in the comments section.
There are a couple of misconceptions that I’d like to address here:
First is the idea that we designed uTP *for* the ISPs. It was not.
While we think there are substantial advantages for ISPs in the broad adoption of uTP, [...]

Visualizing µTP

We’ve spent a lot of time in recent posts talking about the benefits of µTP.  We’ve even talked a little bit about how it works here, though much more so in the various technical forums for the community.  But sometimes a picture is worth 2^^10 words and I think the graph below says it best.  [...]