UTorrent which was recently acquired by BitTorrent has a new feature called uTP which stands for Micro Transport Protocol µTP or “micro-Transport Protocol” is a new protocol from BitTorrent, Inc. That is at the heart of the new major release of our popular BitTorrent clients “µTorrent” and “BitTorrent Mainline”. This protocol or feature is designed to slow down the utorrent downloads when it detects network is getting congested.

Dec 8, 2008 - I admit back when I had a Mac torrents did seem a bit slower than they were. When using my PC, uTorrent could download 500MB torrents in.

Without this feature, torrent downloads would consume the entire bandwidth when used in a network, giving other users no or little bandwidth. UTP protocol works based on network delays and dynamic packet size to determine if it is consuming the entire bandwidth in a network, and accordingly uTorrent slows the download.

UTP Good or Bad? UTP is good for co network users as one does not eat up the entire bandwidth, but it means slower uTorrent downloads, slower uploads which again makes slower downloads. In overall uTP makes torrent crawling to under 10 kbps in most cases, since uploads are also slow. UTP protocol makes torrent traffic of lower priority.

If it could give equal priority to both traffic, we could see better download rates, which is a win - win for both users on the network. Disabling uTP feature in uTorrent 2.2 uTP uTorrent slows down the upload/download speed. To disable uTP on uTorrent 2.2, goto Options > Preferences click on the BitTorrent option and uncheck the Enable bandwidth management (uTP). Illustrated below: Hope uTP is redesigned to get better results for both users. Windows 10 media creation tool.