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Page should be renamed and moved, uTP stands for "micro Torrent Protocol" (in analogy to μTorrent being written as uTorrent). Source: [1], under "What is in 1.9:" --Snaaio (talk) 03:08, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Semi-support. It actually stands for "micro Transport Protocol. uTP is a general-use transport protocol lying on top of UDP, and indeed, it's explained in the thread you linked to. Arbitrarynick (talk) 00:39, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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A lot of incorrect information in this page.
µTP is designed to reduce congestion, not to increase speed.
µTP is not "used by BitTorrent implementations", it is used by one BitTorrent implementation (granted, the most popular one).
µTP is not hidden, it is used by default by µT 2.0 and 2.1.
1. µTP was developed within BitTorrent, Inc., with no input from the wider networking community.
Where's the actual source of this info? Author provided only a link to a forum thread where nothing like this is mentioned. [1].
The author (me) provided a link to a forum thread where the uTorrent developers acknowledge that there is no uTP specificatin, at a date when uTP was already being fielded. What more information do you need? Jec (talk) 21:31, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2. The framing scheme has functionality roughly equivalent to that of TCP (with timestamps and SACK), but realized in a somewhat idiosyncratic manner.
This is biased against µTP (the author needs to explain what "idiosyncratic" is supposed to mean in the context of µTP) AND no source is given.
3. Ledbat has been described in an Internet-Draft, but the details of the µTP implementation are different from those of the draft.
In the forum thread [2] that is supposed to be the source, one of the µTorrent developers clearly states that there's precisely one difference between LEDBAT and µTP and this difference is a minor one.
4.Many ISPs had problems on BRAS and Border routers when customers started to use µTP
The "source" of this information is a link to a forum thread [3] on a Russian community forum where the implied "problems" are discussed by anonymous posters. There's no way to verify their connection to any actual ISP. Furthermore, there are NO offial reports of any major ISP in the world having problems with µTP.
