Unless you have a broadband connection of excellent quality, you probably find that your downloads with μTorrent and more generally with any BitTorrent client are rather long and do not use your full band bandwidth available yet. Many factors may explain the average speed of seed quality, network settings of Windows or your modem / router / box, configure your BitTorrent client filtering your Internet Service Provider ...
The following tips will help you boost the download speed of your torrent file with μTorrent . Note that most of the proposed optimizations can also be applied to any BitTorrent client.
Wisely choose torrents for downloads:
Before you start downloading a file, some vocabulary items are to assimilate like:
- Peer: A peer matches any computer involved in downloading or sending a torrent file.
- Seed: A seed or seeder is any person who has a complete copy of the file shared on the network stream.
- Leech: A leech or leecher is a person who does not yet have the complete file but is in the middle of downloading. A leecher becomes a seeder once it has finished downloading the file and let it shared on the network.
When you choose a file to download so you need to pay attention to these figures. More seeders a file has, the more it is spread over the network and more chance you have to download it quickly. Downloading a file that has a limited number of seeds is strongly linked to the connection and operation of seeders and may take several days.
You must also pay attention to the number of leechers file. The more people who download a file, unless your download speed will be high, the flow is shared between all leechers.
Always prefer the torrent files that have a high number of seeds and a limited number of leechers. The higher the ratio Seed / Leech, the higher your download will be fast. Better to wait sometimes several hours or days that a file is more widespread then the download faster.
Strain through a firewall:
The firewall can block all traffic to your BitTorrent client, whether for download or shipment. You must set an exception in the firewall that you use to allow uTorrent to exchange data and be accessible from the Internet.
- If you use the firewall built into Windows, run μTorrent .
- Click on the Options menu then Preferences.
- Open the "Connection.
- Check the box to Add Firewall exceptions (Windows Firewall Exception Add) to add to the μTorrent list of authorized software to communicate over the Internet. Click OK.
- Then click the Start button and then click Control Panel.
- In Vista, open the Security section.
- Double click the Windows Firewall and then, with Vista, click Change settings.
- Open the Exceptions tab.
- Check Torrent exceptions are enabled (checkboxes).
- Finally, click OK.
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