However, the best way to avoid these problems is not using torrent at all, I really recommend it. Using peerblock may come in handy for downloading torrent, but it could also reduce your number of seeders, might slow down your download speed. I am so going to uninstall it.What Umbra stated is true, I heard from my cousin he lives in US, and his friend is got banned by ISP due downloading illegal torrent, got banned is still luck I guess, but not every torrent is illegal though. I don't know why there was such a difference, but I think the test was very practical and 'real-world'. It reported several hundred seeds and peers.Ĭonclusion: Utorrent's average speed was twice tixati's maximum speed. The maximum download speed was 4.2 megabytes per second and averaged 2.2 megabytes per second. Utorrent took 4 minutes and 53 seconds to download the file. The maximum download speed was 1.1 megabytes per second and averaged about 750 kilobytes per second. Tixati took 12 minutes and 45 seconds to download the file. I used a stopwatch to time the clients and observed their progress. The connection was wired 52Megabit fibre optic. The file was fairly large (497MB), in order to let the clients get 'up to speed' during the course of the download. I downloaded a HD video of a popular tv show, first with tixati and then with utorrent immediately afterward.

I have both utorrent and tixati installed and did a quick test to compare their performance.

Tixati download speed slow