I just tried it myself and uTorrent does give me better transfer speeds than Transmission (~80kb/s vs. ~60kb/s). It's not much and I tend to like Transmission more because it's Open Source but I wonder why there is such a difference.

I concur with your experience.

Hm. A sample size of one.

What did you expect, a double blind test published in a peer reviewed journal?

It reminds me:

the phrase direct observation sounds so much better than anecdotal evidence. </quote> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283746