Well, almost.

uTorrent has performed admirably.  It kept my bandwidth fully utilized from from around 4:23 AM on the 12th through around 11:00 AM on the 14th, and probably averaged around 30 gigs a day.  Considering my wireless internet connection tops out somewhere at the 4 megabit/sec level, that's pretty good.

Late morning on Saturday I was left with just three torrents I knew would be trouble:  The full BD run of Tenchi Muyo (Which I own on VHS :-P) at about 30 gigs alone there which is coming in pretty nicely now, but is huge enough to take a while; Macademi Washoi, which has only one seed who is feeding it at around 0.2k/sec, when he's putting it out at all; and the Panty and Stocking soundtrack (Which I wanted for the full version of the end theme, and is in this absurd tta format that is even larger than a CD that I can't play with anything, plus a .wav format that isn't broken into tracks) which has no seeds, so I and four other peers are all equalized at 74.2%

Nevertheless, I'm really, really pleased that I was able to recover everything else so quickly.  Actually, that's an understatement, I'm ASTOUNDED that 180 torrents came through the air in a tad over two days. (I nuked one duplicate).  I really like the way uTorrent operates.  I appreciate the control over the queue that is totally lacking in Vuse, so that I could easily move poorly performing torrents to the end of the line.  Vuse has an amazing number of rules and controls you can set over how the program operates, but none of that makes it operate WELL.  I haven't delved too much into uTorrent's settings, but even the defaults kicked butt.

One thing I have set is my altruistic 2.0 share ratio goal.  And I like how they let you spec the bandwidth after you hit that.  (I suppose there can be some merit in continuing to share a trickle after that).  Vuse's odd ruleset would sometimes continue to squander my limited upload capacity (somewhere under 0.5 megabits/sec) on a torrent over that ratio, once running away all the way to the 8's.

Now to start poking around in the RSS feed settings.  It'll be nice to have that working, rather than timing out because "The server at client.vuse.com is not responding."  Just what were they extracting from their users, I wonder....

(Oh, and can anyone tell me how to set up the categories on this system?)

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