Speed Up Utorrent 1.8.3

here are some changes i have applied to my Utorrent settings to desperately try and speed up downloads

if anyone has any better ideas i would love to try them out, these settings i applied did improve my download speed simply by connecting me to more seeds

i havent made any changes to the advanced settings

some people say it does help, others dont so i just left it the way it is.

hope its of some help to you







these settings are not my own, i picked them up from various places on the web

Axxxo - also you need to check that you have your "port" forwarded on your router, (this will give you the green checkmark on Utorrent) once you are green you will be getting the full amount (depending on seeds) allowed by your ISP
Hope this helps
Knotaclu

thanks knotaclu, have the green checkmark on utorrent constantly so i never bothered with the port forwarding, i must give it a try anyway to see if it makes an improvement anyhow

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question actually, if you have it done yourself do you use the actual ip of your computer or the ip you get from running ipconfig /all in the cmd box?

Your good to go Axxxo - once your checkmark is green your port is open for connections.
in the event you turn yellow, which can happen if you change your listening port by accident it is good to know about port forwarding.

Hi guys

I was wondering axxxo if your are still having speed problems with you utorrent I have been tweaking my utorrent for ages
I would like to help you tweak your utorrent to squeeze them extra speeds for all the open licence material of course
If your want to give it a go
There are a load of different tweaks you could try all based on provider, router, connection speeds, Operating System and of course firewall

Some of the things you could try is find out an accurate speed of your web connection by going to Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test I recommend at least 3 tests and average the results

If you give me the results I could recommend upload speed limits, max global connections , max number of connected peers and so on

These can help quiet a bit as sometimes less means more

We could try these first and see how it goes

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sorry forgot to mention your ip address it is on the sppedtest so if you screenshot be careful and brush it out with paint called me old fashioned

hi byrnie, good point, i should have stated my settings in the screens above are based on speedtest already, well the upload anyway. where the upload does seem dismal that im not sharing, once the download is finished it it does get alot higher. one great change i noticed with the settings above was that it simply connected me to more seeds, where before i could be conected to maybe 20 on a good torrent, it now connects me to 100 plus, typical 700mb file used to take a few hours reduced to around 20-40 mins on a well seeded torrent at least.
have you made any changes to the advanced settings?

Delighted to see you posting Byrnie

Your vast knowledge will be very beneficial to all the members here

Hope all is well with you buddy

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Cheers Gman should of been using the forum sooner but its all good now

Axxxo I had to play around with the setting quite a bit on ntl 20mb and was getting very slow speeds

Ntl tend to throttle torrents a lot so in preferences under bittorrent I have changed protocol encryption to forced this helped some

Also when my up speed was anything close to 80% of my actual upload it slowed the down speed but trying not to be to tight I would usually leave it a close to 70% but I was caught one or twice with my upload speed being 1.4mb some of the time but 1.1mb most of it (supposed to be 1.5 ) I used this as a reference I have mine set for 85 kB/s

The maximum connected peers per torrent can be a fine line

I played around with the max connected peers settings and found out that both high and low settings hurt the download speed of a torrent.

I realised that if you take your max upload speed that you set in utorrent and multiply it by 1.4
85*1.4 = 119.0

For maximum upload slots I found that if you divide your upload speed by 6 and round up it helped

85/6=14.1667 so 15

Global maximum connections I found multiply the upload speed by 10
85*10=850

These setting I find gives a nice balance between connecting to many seeds and having a very low average and not connecting to enough

I have my half open tcp/ip set to 50 I had to run a patch to achieve this you can check yours by going to preferences - advanced its called net.max_half open

This limits the simultaneous connections your computer can make or receive some people recommend not changing this as it increase the amount off computers that connect to you

The Value can be changed in utorrent but also must be changed in your operating system to match

Also I Set my computer to a static ip address and forwarded the ports in the router this allowed me to turn of f upnp port mapping and NAT-PMP port mapping in utorrent this helped to increase speeds

I set my ip address to

192.168.1.136
255.255.255.0
192.168.1.1

89.101.xxx.xxx (primary dns of ISP)
89.101.xxx.xxx (secondary dns of ISP)

I feel this helps the router deal with all the inbound and outbound requests


If you feel any of these setting could be helpful to you and need more information feel free to ask

thanks a mil byrnie, i had applied that patch before but cant for the life of me find it again since my last reinstallation, so many things to try and remember, thanks to G's acronis thats not gonna happen again!
gonna check all these settings the weekend, just recently started back on the night shift so my head is everywhere at the moment!

my net.max halfopen is set at 8 by default

did you use ipconfig/all for ip address settings or what way did you go about getting the settings for the static address?

appreciate the advice once again

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just found the patch again

Axxxo What service provider are you with here in Ireland and what is your connection speed supposed to be?