Pros

• Control torrents without being at your device
• Lightweight app
• Easy to understand interface

Cons

• Requires registration, so not entirely anonymous
• Sometimes lags/delays/hangs, so you may need to log out and back in to see current status
• Sometimes crashes after canceling a connection request. Fixed in a July 2018 update (build 44498), but not all users update their uTorrent client due to version preferences.

What Does uTorrent Remote Do?

uTorrent Remote is an app to control your uTorrent installation remotely. With it, you can start, stop, delete, and manage torrents without being at the main computer.

People who want to manage downloads without being home can use this app easily, but there are many other purposes for the remote. As smaller, smarter devices enter the market, torrents offer an easy way to provide updates.

Think of the Internet of Things (IoT) industry. With so many smart cameras, speakers, sensors, and locks on the market, you need a way to update them.

Think of mobile devices and small computers, too. Whether it's a smartphone, tablet, or the Rapsberry Pi, you can use uTorrent Remote to turn small devices into download servers that don't take up much space.

What Is Utorrent Used For?

uTorrent is a lightweight torrenting program. Based on BitTorrent, the app is designed to manage torrent connections better than the original torrenting programs.

Torrenting works by downloading pieces of files from multiple people rather than downloading from one source. That matters because when you download from one server, the server can slow down from excessive load.

Prior to torrenting, a growing number of internet users meant that file servers had to deal with more users. It's expensive to upgrade servers, so the smart thing to do is throttle or slow down the upload to users or customers.

Torrenting circumvents that issue by spreading the load to others with the file. You don't need the full download to share in torrenting; bits and pieces of incomplete files can come from anywhere.

Verification happens throughout the download process, and there are multiple techniques involving how to check at the beginning, middle parts, and the end. Even if a download is corrupted, torrents can simply download clean bits to finish the job.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Control torrents without being at your device
• Lightweight app
• Easy to understand interface

Cons

• Requires registration, so not entirely anonymous
• Sometimes lags/delays/hangs, so you may need to log out and back in to see current status
• Sometimes crashes after canceling a connection request. Fixed in a July 2018 update (build 44498), but not all users update their uTorrent client due to version preferences.