uTorrent (µTorrent), one of the most popular BitTorrent client does have the ability to stop the seeding and uploads, albeit indirectly. That’s why the option to disable uploading or seeding in BT client is hard to find, with some BT clients not even provide such an option. uploading) is important feature of BitTorrent to ensure the health of the file distribution network, due to the fact that if nobody seeds, and everybody leeches, the files shared on the BitTorrent will quickly die off. One prominent feature of BitTorrent P2P protocol is that users of BitTorrent network are automatically uploading and transferring to other downloading peers while they’re downloading the files. A BitTorrent client is required to send or receive files, where one of the most popular BitTorrent client is μTorrent.

How to Disable Upload (Turn Off Seeding) in uTorrent & bittorrent.īitTorrent (BT) is one of the most popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocols used to share and distribute large files and data over the Internet.

Please note if you are using a ratio enforcing ‘private’ tracker, the ratio shown in the client, is not the same ratio as your tracker is reporting or monitoring. Please note this goes against the basic principles of using a Bittorrent client, but is of course your personal preference. If you do not want to seed at all after downloading, set the value to 0.

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