uTorrent Tweaks

Hello all,

I was wondering if you guys have any tweaks for making uTorrent go faster. If you know please share! Thanks a lot.

 

I can't remember if uTorrent does this automatically (I think they do), but be sure to forward your ports. Also known as "port-forwarding". This is something to you do in your router settings.

 

Also, remember to seed, I think it monitors that aspect as well.

 

Use encryption.

 

1. Set your maximum upload and download speeds to 90% of your bandwidth, otherwise web browsing will be slow.

2. Increase the max number of half-open TCP/IP connection with a 3rd party patch (On my XP system, SP2 reduced it from 65,000+ to just 10). Use a program to raise it to 200.

3. Use a firewall, any firewall besides the one Windows come with. The default ones tend to be rather slow.

 

Also set up a static IP, but like already said port fowarding really makes the difference. I never really seeded and can still get max download speeds, as long as you upload a little you should be OK. Also check that you port if fowarded correcly.

 

Once you set the TCP/IP to ~100 or more, then go to Preferences->Advanced and change the "net.max_halfopen" to the # of connections you changed the TCP/IP to.

compduce: lol not proper torrent etiquette.

 

I find for cable users setting 10 kb/sec for upload while downloading to give best download ratio. I used to be able to get good speeds even when I only share 3kb/sec but it seems like it doesn't work very well so now I set it at 10 and it gives a pretty good donwload rate.

 

I've just updated the net.max_halfopen option to my haxed TCP/IP connection number but I don't have the bandwidth to test it... Rogers is gay. I'll need to wait 4 more days before I get my fresh 61 GB limit -_-"

 

All of them? Isn't it a good idea to leave like 50 or so of them for an advanced browser like Opera 9.22? I've got truly unlimited 15Mbps down/2Mbps up cable.

 

hmm.. you're right maybe I should try 200 first xD I got too excited and jumped the gun

 

Set the torrent's bandwidth allocation to high, and in preference, put global number of connections and max connection of peers to 9999999 (as many 9's as possible).

 

wouldn't that completely bring your websurfing ability to ground zero?

 

I think that would crash the RPC service like the Blaster worm.

 

That might speed up your torrents, but most likely if your using a router it will crash it. Most new "Home" routers can only handle so many connections before they "fall Over". The best way to increase speeds was already stated, Us a static IP from your router and forward the listen "incoming connection" port/ports to that Ip address. And secondly open those ports on your firewall for both TCP and UDP traffic.

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I don't know man... forwarding ports doesn't work for me and I've been using 2 different routers. There wasn't much major improvement that I've noticed on my old SMC router after forwarding my utorrent ports. I tried it again on my new Dlink N-draft router and it's the samething (I'm using wired btw). Eventually I have to resort to using DMZ. Any ideas why?

 

You can check if you forwarded correctly by clicking on the bottom if the page where it says XXXnodes it will either have a green check mark that indicates that it should be forwarded correctly or have an orange exclamation mark. Double click on it and it should tell you.

Qhs: And for torrent etiquette I meant, I seed everything and I upload at max speed ALWAYS!

 

I'll second this. I have always had mine set at 10kbs and on decently seeded torrents i'll get 150-500kps consistent. Since moving from Cox (15/1) to this crap Comcast my speeds are a lot slower, and it takes my net to a crawl at times, with max speeds around 300kbs, which is more than adequate for me. I miss my Cox internet so much, Comcast blows

 

What if I get the green check mark and occassionally the exclimation mark? What does that mean? Lol...

 

Use the program called TCP OPTIMIZER. just google it and it will be the first one. It worked really really well for me.

 

Alright, here's an update of my own test. Assuming the torrent is active and has a decent amount of seeders, I'm able to achieve speeds up to as high as 370-380kb/s and for average I get around 230-270kb/s. Poor torrents or torrents with a massive leecher : seeder ratio I still get speeds of 50-70kb/s on average which isn't bad. Opening half TCPIP connections did work. I used 250 Connections. However, it makes your other online application's file transfer unstable. I noticed that I wasn't able to transfer files to my friend on MSN while utorrent was running with those settings. It just disconnects my msn and transfer instantly fails. So I guess it does add a lot of strain onto your router but if you do normal surfing there's no issues that I've noticed and normal chatting is just fine. Just don't anything bandwidth demanding while you're downloading and it should be fine.

 

I get the same speed with you, but my 1/2 connections are set at 80. I can DL from websites ok but if they are greater than 20 MB it usually just stops at ~ 25MB and just stops. Nada. Have to restart that DL. :\ So torrents are blazing fast but website DLs are so-so.

 

Murdoc, leave 10% of your bandwidth for other stuff.

 

I find uTorrent to be useful only when there are multiple files from a torrent but you only want to dl one specific one. Plus there are just way too many settings to configure/tweak. For speed, Bittornado works much better for me. I max out at 850KB and usually get 500+ KB with minimal tweaking. The only setting I change is to dsl/cable slow.

 

well I have 1k 1/2 connecctions opened except for some reason it still couldn't handle it when I tried to do file transfer. Surfing on the web is just as fast.