Vuze Remote and Faster Downloads

Have you ever been out, and realized that you forgot to queue a Vuze download to watch when you get home?  With the new Vuze Remote, you can now securely control your Vuze client from any computer or smartphone with a web browser.  Pretty cool, eh?  Not to mention, very useful for those meetings or classes where your mind has already fast forwarded to Friday night entertainment…

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Once you have the latest Vuze release,  simply go to remote.vuze.com from any browser, or download the Vuze Remote toolbar here.  After a one-time pairing of the Vuze client and your browser, you’ll be ready to find and control all your Vuze downloads remotely over the web.

Your remote instructions pass directly and securely between your Vuze client and a web page in your remote browser.  Props to the Transmission team, as we leveraged their original web UI in developing Vuze Remote (open source ftw!).

We’ll continue to expand the functionality of Vuze Remote going forward.  Stay tuned…

Faster Downloads

This release also includes a number of significant performance improvements resulting from our ongoing Olympic training to make Vuze downloads even faster.

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You should notice significantly faster torrent start-up times and subsequent download speeds, as a result of :

  • Faster initiation of new torrents through “Allowed Fast” support (enabling new peers to quickly start downloading despite their lack of pieces to trade)
  • Connecting to more seeds and peers on launch of a new torrent (for Vista SP2+ and Windows 7), and through optimized support of LibTorrent peer exchange
  • Quickly switching to better performing peers through faster connection timeouts
  • Faster ramp-up of better performing peers.

Bottomline – you should experience significantly faster torrent start-up and download speeds.

Reigning in Mr. Slidey

Finally, remember Microsoft’s infamously reviled Clippy – the animated paperclip in Office 2000 and XP?  For a long period of time, Vuze has had a similarly reviled Slidey that popped up with error messages in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.  With this release, we’ve finally fought Mr. Slidey into a corner, and locked him in the closet.  You can find all your favorite error messages by clicking on the exclamation point in the bottom-right corner of the Vuze client.  Don’t care to be bothered?  Please feel free to ignore.  Sometimes, it’s the small steps forward that count.

Download Vuze 4.3.1.2 and give it a try.  Tell us what you think!

Gilles and the Vuze Team

Monday, February 1st, 2010 Devices, Features/Updates

315 Responses to Vuze Remote and Faster Downloads

  1. Sikku says:

    Thats a great update…

  2. Brexxie says:

    Awesome that will be handy!

  3. Akumajou says:

    Why isn’t this update available from within Vuze?

  4. DamnBillzFan says:

    Do you have to redownload your library after updating the program? I was just curious because I have like over a hundred torrents in my library and I don’t want to waste my time doing it all over again. Somebody please get back to me as soon as you can. I am really excited about this update because I spend a lot of time trying to be patient with the existing program. Thank you everybody. Peace out!!!
    Sincerely,
    DamnBillzFan

  5. Nicole says:

    I have AT&T Uverse and I heard somewhere that the AT&T cable boxes can read that you have Vuze movie downloads and you can watch your movie downloads on your TV. Can anyone tell me how to do this???
    Thanks
    Nicole

  6. TERLUTTE says:

    peut-on avoir une version écrite en français

  7. vuze is perfect ….

  8. matt says:

    this program is the best

  9. ivo.linuc says:

    Why remote vuze is not available for Linux??? I hope that you will release a port Linux port in a reasonable time.
    Fuck

  10. carol says:

    there is never anyone on line, how does this really work??

  11. Armando says:

    Esta d poca medre deven de probarlo no se arrepentiran!

  12. Armando says:

    I really like this new version thx

  13. neronimo says:

    DamnBillzFan, I can confirm you won’t have to re-download your library after upgrading. All my torrents that were seeding before are still here.

  14. Константин says:

    сменит свой клиент торрента …. отличная вещь !!!

  15. jda says:

    Can i transfer or burn my downloads from my libary to dvd to keep or do i need to download and pay for another program other than vuze

    is there anyone out there that has done this

    thanks…this is a great site

  16. JOLY JC says:

    Does a french version exist?

  17. Movie Mad says:

    Will faster downloads be available for Mac soon too?

    I like the organised layout of Vuze but the downloads are slow and interfere with work on the internet mainly the loading of pages 4 most websites. My internet speed is fairly high too!

    thx

  18. dj farfig says:

    speaking of faster downloads, anyone have any secrets to setting preferences in vuze to maximize download speeds, any and all little tricks to speed up the thing, i’m in the jungles of asia with medium slow cmda wireless, thanks, much appreciated.
    benjafarian

  19. Hispania says:

    My Vuze detects the update I how do I fix it? Another thing: I have several torrents downloading normally to go any faster (my bandwidth is not great :-( ) so I must be careful to start one when the other end For when a solution on this issue established in the Vuze own?

  20. Dulsara says:

    no talks to make VUZE the second best :)

  21. ALF says:

    Still have the problem with buttons. Have to first select button with mouse and then press to execute it.

    Ubuntu 9.10 amd64

  22. ALF says:

    Still have the problem with buttons. Have to first select button with mouse and then press to execute it.

    Ubuntu 9.10 amd64

  23. jay says:

    salamat sa vuse pinoy po ako pero i love english movies

  24. Xhac says:

    Ya era hora que hicieran esto. en emule hace ya mucho que se puede hacer.

  25. Hispania says:

    y de mis preguntas que ¿ nadie me contesta ?

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