How to use uTorrent on your Seedbox

While ordering a Seedbox at RapidSeedbox one of the torrent clients you may pick is the uTorrent, in its Web-based version also known as uTorrent WebUI

Sidebar explained

In our sidebar, we can find useful information regarding loaded torrents. We can find out how many torrents are loaded in total, amount of total torrents in different states

The main menu explained

In the main menu, you have different options for your torrent.

From left to right:

1)”Add torrent” option to load torrent via local file

2)”Load via magnet URL” – option to load torrents from magnet URL’s

3)”Load via RSS feed” – Load torrents automatically using RSS feed

4)”Delete” – With this button we can remove torrents from uTorrent WebUI

5) “Start” – Option for starting our torrent

6) “Pause” – Pause torrent

7) “Stop” – Stop the torrent

8 & 9) Move torrent up or down in WebUI

10) Configure various options for uTorrent

Getting started with uTorrent

To get acquainted with uTorrent WebUI and how to download torrents there follow the steps below:

Open your favorite web browser. We recommend using Google Chrome or Firefox.

Submit the WebUI address as provided in the Seedbox login credentials email in your browser (e.g 124.567.890:8090/gui).

Next thing to do is to download .torrent file from some Torrent sites (there are plenty of them on the Web) or copy Magnet URL.

In uTorrent, you can download torrents using 3 methods. In this tutorial, we will explain the exact use of all of them.

Method of loading torrent via file

Download .torrent file from some Torrent sites (there are plenty of them on The Web) and click on “Add torrent”. After that, another window will popup asking you to locate that file. After you successfully located it, confirm it by clicking on “Load”

Loading torrent via Magnet link

The Same principle is used when loading torrents via magnet link.

Loading torrents via RSS feed

The same principle as with loading torrents via file and magnet link can be applied to the RSS feed.

After we paste RSS feed URL, we can choose if we want to download all items in the feed automatically, or we only need a list of torrents fetched via that RSS feed and we can individually select torrents that we want to download.

Introducing the main window

If the torrent is loaded successfully we can monitor all stats regarding that loaded torrent.

Files tab

Files tab is uTorrent is dedicated for showing us specific information about all files that are downloading in one torrent.

We can find info such a: Name of file, extension of a file, it’s total size, downloaded data in percents and priority of file.

General Tab

In the General tab, we can find various info of selected torrent.

Peers tab

In peers tab, we can find information about peers connected to our torrent. We can find information like their IP, client they are using, the percentage of downloaded data, relevance, their download speed and upload speed.

Speed tab

Speed tab is displaying real-time graph of our both upload and download speed.