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Hijacking top comment to mention constantly neglected PicoTorrent — minimalist interface & size, open source, portable if you want, active development, latest standards and of course, free.

PicoTorrent is the best, imo. It's so lightweight and clean, low memory usage and open source. It has a simple user interface and separate encryption settings for incoming and outgoing connections built in, as well as a few proxies.

I am always surprised at how few people suggest picotorrent (github) when it comes to clients.

It's tiny, open source, super light on resources and has everything you need if you casually download/seed torrents.

Of course, if you heavily seed/have a seedbox, that's another story. You'd naturally use rtorrent or Deluge then. Though there is a picotorrent client for servers and seedboxes.

Personally I have rtorrent+rutorrent on a seedbox, which is a beast, but unfortunately there isn't a real native rtorrent client for Windows, besides a few attempts. You could always run a Linux distro on a VM and use rTorrent+rutorrent that way, or there's the two other established and respected torrent clients, Transmission and Deluge.

If you don't use private trackers/for casual use, Hadouken is a web based client that has that classic uTorrent GUI. https://github.com/hadouken/hadouken. There's also another Picotorrent, which has a very simplistic GUI and is pretty lightweight. https://picotorrent.org/ I haven't used either enough to say how well they perform with hundreds or thousands of torrents, but they're good enough for downloading and seeding the odd torrents here and there.

Exactly, and seeding do not interfere with ur internet speed much because it uses ur Upload speed not ur Download speed, so u can be watching movies or whatever while u seed torrent, and when u dont feel like it u just close ur Torrent client and that's it. Speaking of clients i recommend ya PicoTorrent

If Transmission doesn't cut it. I'm not sure what else will.

Transmission has the most minimalistic interface and settings. If you are not running a daemon, then you should use "Start Local Session" and this only appear once when you start transmission for the first time.

From what you are saying, I believe when you added the torrent, you were not connected to any session which is why the "Torrent" you were trying to add was not found in active session.

Give transmission another chance. If that doesn't work, https://picotorrent.org/ should help.

This is another one of minimal interface torrent client.

Well this is separate from your speed issue, but seriously, don't use utorrent. It has essentially become malware in recent years and it uses your CPU to mine bitcoin for the owner. Instead of using utorrent, you should use qbittorrent, official site is https://www.qbittorrent.org/ or I have recently started using Picotorrent which is an even more light weight version, https://picotorrent.org/

Other people like Deluge, but I prefer the two I listed.

Don't just brush this off tho, seriously uninstall utorrent like right now and download one of the others I recommended. Or search this subreddit there's a million posts of people asking what the best torrent client is. Just don't use utorrent or bittorrent.

What if I post the Base64 encoded version of the hash of the torrent, which you can throw in the "add magnet links" option of your torrent program (I recommend PicoTorrent, BTW)

+1 to Transmission, Deluge, Qbittorrent — but also https://picotorrent.org for Windows

> you have to jailbreak/root the phone first and side load the app

You can sideload with a free dev account. Have to reload every week or so though.