This is not a serious matter at all.

I've used Transmission on macOS for, gosh... nearly 18 years or something. Today I switched to qBittorrent. I did it for one reason: speed.

I ran X number of the same magnets of each application, with roughly the same openness on each app, and with some other variables controlled for. On aggregate, qB completed the downloads in about 60-80% faster times, with some of the files downloading almost 300% faster. There was only one instance where Transmission kept a connection alive that qB didn't, but in neither case did I actually complete that file.

I am wondering if anybody who knows about these things can give me a lesson into why that is. What might be going on under the hood of each application that one is so much more swift at delivering the end result?

Thanks so much for any ideas or insights. Cheers!