Accessing uTorrent from anywhere
My very popular uTorrent Web UI for iPhone web app has been out there for a while now (still having dozens of downloads every day). Thank you all.
At the moment in order to use it you have to be connected to your local network using Wi-Fi. Quite often I find myself wanting to use it even outside my network – from Wi-Fi in some coffee shop, shopping mall or my friend’s place. I can do it if I know the IP Address of PC running the uTorrent client and the port number and all this should be configured beforehand (which also involves firewall configuration). Another issue is that the IP address can change very often (unless you’ve got dedicated IP) and this depends on your ISP. And when it changes I need to change the URL in the Safari browser in order to navigate to this app.
My new vision is to have one URL that will be used to connect to uTorrent client. I want to configure it once and it will always give me access to my downloads. There’s no need to check whether my IP changed. Simple and easy. One URL which can also be connected to multiple uTorrent clients.
What do you think, dear reader ? Would you like to have something like this ?
Share your thoughts here or just leave a comment.
Thanks
I do this all the time. You need a dynamic DNS service, such as DynDNS. A lot of routers (or routers with third party firmware such as DD-WRT and Tomato) have DDNS updaters which will update your dynamic DNS domain with your current IP. You can also get a small utility from DynDNS that will do the updating as well. You then simply create a bookmark with the proper info in order to login into your mobile webui.
i.e. http://mydynamicdnssite.dyndns.com:8081/gui/iphone.html
You can also set up your webui to to use SSL via stunnel which will encrypt your password and session. Info for that is here at the bottom of the page: http://www.utorrent.com/documentation/webui
Thanks a lot for describing the additional way to accomplish this. I’m using something similar. However you’ve got to have some technical knowledge in order to set it up. And some users just don’t know how to do it or don’t even want to know such things. All they want is to install something and see that it works. I see such people all the time and I think that they are right and that’s why I wanted to see what others think.
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts.