Hiya, and greetings from Oulu, Finland, (where at the moment sunshine's a distant memory...
Anyway, reason for writing this drivel is that over the last two days I've been struggling (polite way of putting it!) getting Bit Torrent to work.
I've made a Centros-powered webserver/firewall/gateway - just an old Compaq ES machine, and it feeds my IBM 600E, Kubuntu-powered. OK, that's the 'techy-bit' over and done with.
On getting home, I leapt into my other consuming passion, which is watching via finance.yahoo, SCO go down in flames...Such fun!
So, I'm reading the message boards, and a link to Magoo's writeup on migration to Linux/Ubuntu popped up. Read it, then started casually reading some more of your site. Interested to see how you're getting on with the little 'un (I'm in the same situation, but mine's 7) so I read further, till I almost fell of my chair - Magoo's got a Bittorrent walkthrough I can understand!
Gordon Bennett, it doesn't get much more 'lucky' than that!
Going to pub for celebratory beer, on my return I'll "hoist it up the flagpole and see who salutes it"!

Thanks, and regards to all.
(P.S, no polar bears walking the street. We say that just to frighten the tourists.
Well, not in December, anyway... )
-Andy

Glad you liked the guide.  Is Centros working well for you?

Centros is what the Rad server is running on, which is hosted by Lunarpages (downtown Los Angeles).

I don't use torrents often.  But, when I do, I like for my client to work.

Recently, I began having trouble with download speeds while using my ol' trusty BitTornado client.

Google-ing the issue, I became aware that my ISP may be throttling the torrent data and that maybe a torrent client that encrypts data would help.  With the Google page still up, I started looking for "torrent encrypted" and came across uTorrent.
http://www.utorrent.com/

I've used it for about a week and have to say I'm just delighted with what it does and I've overcome what might have been data throttling.  It doesn't use lots of system resources even when running two or three torrents.  Just love the GUI.  Everything is done within one window.  It is highly configurable and settings can be changed on the fly.  Their website's FAQ and Guide helped answer some questions and get me tweaked for max download speeds.

Something else.  When running uTorrent, I can see who's running encrypted and who is not.  LOTS of folks are running encrypted these days.

 I was reading the uTorrent forums and found where in early December it was announced that BitTorrent bought uTorrent.  

Joe

uTorrent came out about a year ago, but quickly became popular due to its large feature set and small system resource usage.  Apparently, its very efficent code.  I've actually switched from endorsing BitTornado as the best client to uTorrent and added it to my wireless guide.  I can see from the search queries that hit my site that many people agree to uTorrent rocks.

As you mentioned, BitTorrent bought uTorrent a few weeks ago, leading me to believe it is going to become the official BitTorrent client.

I've blogged about uTorrent a few times on my home page:

http://www.magooswisewords.com/?p=164