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    Accelerating uTorrent download speed

    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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    Changing the communication port:
    By default, BitTorrent uses any port number between 6881 and 6999. Suppliers have access to the Internet and a way to limit the bandwidth allocated to trade by limiting BitTorrent traffic from and to these communication ports. So use a particular random port above 10 000 in your BitTorrent client.

    • Run uTorrent and click on the Options menu then Preferences.
    • Open the "Connection (Connection).
    • In the Listener (Listening Port), click Port random) Random port to generate a random port number.
    • Note that port, you'll need to properly configure your modem / router / box thereafter. In our example, the port μTorrent is assigned to the port number 35311.
    • Check the box for each random port startup (Randomize port EACH start) is unchecked. Your port number and will be static.
    • Finally, click OK.


    Configure port forwarding for your router:
    For that uTorrent is accessible to your friends on the Internet, you must configure your modem / router / box, open the communication port needed for μTorrent and redirect your computer which is the BitTorrent client. Here's how with the Livebox. Manipulations are substantially identical with the other routers / box. Feel free to consult their documentation for how to open a port.
    • In your Web browser, go to the address http://192.168.1.1.
    • The interface configuration of the Livebox displayed. Sign. By default the username is admin and the password admin.
    • Click on the Servers tab LAN.
    • Click the New Entry.
    • Enter uTorrent TCP in the Server Name field.
    • Then enter the port number noted above in μTorrent (35,311 in our example) in the fields at the port and the port.
    • Scroll down and select Protocol TCP.
    • Finally Enter the local IP address of the computer on which you installed uTorrent. To get it, click the Start button (then Run Windows XP). Type cmd and press Enter.
    • Enter the command ipconfig and press Enter.
    • Note the local IP address (IPv4 form 192.168.1.xxx): 192.168.1.16 in our case.
    • Copy it into the local IP Address field in the interface configuration of the Livebox and then click OK.
    • Repeat adding a new entry called Torrent UDP. Enter the same port numbers as well as your local IP address. Instead of TCP, UDP choose. OK.
    • The ports are then opened and redirected to the computer where uTorrent. You can close the configuration window of the Livebox.

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    Limit upload speed:
    If P2P networks based on the exchange of data, that is to say about the download, but also send data, you should know that the speed of sending data influence the download speed. By limiting your upload speed, you can increase your download speed (upload). To you find the upload speed that you can withstand, without this strap your download speed.

    Firstly, ask about the upload speed of your Internet connection. A flow amount of 1024 Kb / s corresponds to a download speed of 128 kbps (1024 / 8).

    • Click the right mouse button on the icon of μTorrent in the notification area.
    • Click on Emission Limit (upload limit).
    • Choose a limit below the maximum upload speed of your Internet connection, 60 Kbps, for example.
    • Try different values until you find the right between download speed and data sharing.


    Increase the number of simultaneous connections:
    Since Windows XP SP2, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 limit the number of simultaneous connections to 10. Now the BitTorrent clients require a much more important connections to exchange data adequately. You can increase this value by editing the registry then properly configuring uTorrent.
    • Click the Start button and click Run (Windows XP).
    • Enter the command regedit and press Enter.
    • Unroll the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Services, Tcpip, Parameters.
    • Click the Edit menu, click New then DWORD (32-bit Vista
    • Name the value TcpNumConnections then double click on it.
    • Check the selected base is Hexadecimal and then in the Value Data field, enter the value fffffe.
    • Click OK and close the registry editor finally. Restart your computer to apply the new setting.
    • Then run μTorrent.
    • Click on the Options menu then Preferences.
    • Click on the Advanced menu (Advanced).
    • In the right list, select the value net.max_halfopen.
    • Enter 100 in the Value field (Value) then click the Edit button (SET).
    • Finally, click OK.

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    Re: Accelerating uTorrent download speed

    Hiding BitTorrent:
    Some ISPs block or limit the bandwidth allocated to P2P protocols, including BitTorrent part. If you are in this case, you can make it harder for your ISP to bypass this filtering enabling protocol encryption in your BitTorrent client used.
    • In uTorrent, click the Tools menu, click Preferences.
    • Open the menu BitTorrent.
    • In the Protocol Encryption Protocol (Encryption), scroll down the list Leaver (Outgoing) and select Enabled (Enabled).
    • Finally, click OK.


    Test and properly assign the bandwidth:

    Depending on the speed of downloading and sending of your Internet connection, μTorrent uses different settings to define the maximum number of simultaneous downloads, the number of connections per torrent, the overall number of connections ... If you use the settings too high, this can cause bottlenecks and reduce your connection speed. Conversely, settings too low you will lose download speed.
    Cut all your downloads / Posts on the Internet.

    • In uTorrent, click the Options menu and then click Configuration Wizard.
    • Click the Start button testing.
    • Your Internet connection is then tested.
    • Your bandwidth settings in μTorrent are automatically adapted to your connection.
    • Finally, click on the button Sauv & Exit.

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    Re: Accelerating uTorrent download speed

    Download only interested files:
    When you download a torrent containing multiple files, you do not have to download them all. Thus, if only a few files you want, some pieces of music for example, you can download only those. The download is faster. To do so:
    • In uTorrent, click a torrent pending or being downloaded.
    • Then open the Files tab (Files) from the bottom of the window.
    • The list of files making up the stream is displayed.
    • Select the files you do not need and click the right mouse button on the selection. In the menu that appears, choose the Do not download (Do not download).
    • The files will not download then (their focus shifts to Ignored / Skip), leaving all the bandwidth to files that interest you.
    • Thats it. You are done

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