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[Ash-Bash]

This is how to speed up uTorrent version:
1.6 +
Click the peers tab (right click -> untick resolve Ip's)
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Options -> Preferences


:General (tab)
Tick add Windows firewall exeception
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:Connection (tab)

Listening Port [443] or [45682]
Untick Upnp
Untick nat-pmp
Untick Random port
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:Bandwidth (tab) (depends on your connection)

Untick Automatic
Change Global Upload to [15]

Gloabal Connections [500]
Connected per torrent [200]

Tick Upload slots(90%) -> [14]
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:BitTorront (tab)

Protocol Encryption [Enable] [allow legacy connections]
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:Queueing (tab)
Active Torrents [60]
Active Downloads [63]

Ratio [100%] [ignore]
Untick seeding tasks
Untick seeding Goal, change to [4]
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:Advanced (tab)
Change and click Set

BT.allow_same_iP [*True]
BT.connect_speed [*2]
BT.enable_tracker [*True]
BT.no_connect_to_services [*False]
BT.send_have_to_seed [*False ]

gui.bypass_search_redirect [*True]

net.max_halfopen [*500]
net.outgoing_port [*50]
net.wsaevents [*150]

peer.disconnect_inactive_interval [*900]

queue.dont_count_slow_dl [*False]
queue.dont_count_slow_ul [*False]

rss.update_interval [*20]
As most people know sp3 drops more limits on things This lil tool undoes them.

TCP/IP Changer Here
If your going to use this tweak don't change it to 10,000 as it says on the page. anywhere from 100-500 will be fine.


;;; More Guides also on youtube. (I just put a few of them together)

- Ash

Edited by Ash-Bash, 27 September 2009 - 06:28 PM.
added quote tags, code tags would work as well.

[user681]

Just a warning to all of you who are going to try this..it might screw up your torrent..

[rayzoredge]

Er... OP is missing the tiny eety beety fact that adjusting uTorrent settings will be RELEVANT to your system and your connection speed. And obviously, you shouldn't change preferences if you have no idea what they do.

What anyone should be doing is to add uTorrent as a firewall exception. You should already have this enabled anyway, because Windows Firewall will prompt you whether you want to let uTorrent's traffic through or not from the get-go.

It's best if you actually leave Randomize Port unticked and specify a port of your choosing, preferably a port above 10000. When you specify a port, you have the opportunity to open that port and thus let traffic go through as you please through your router (if you have one). And of course, setting up port forwarding is specific to each router, which help on setting this up can be found on PortFoward.com.

UPnP stands for Universal Plug and Play. It makes recognition of devices on your network... well, easier, theoretically. I haven't missed it; therefore I've turned it off personally. I would think that this would improve performance through your router by a very, very slight bit... but adjust this at your own discretion.

NAT-PMP, basically, allows for automatic port forwarding. I would trust manual settings and, therefore, if you are forwarding a port yourself, to turn this off.

Setting an automatic download and upload rate is not recommended because uTorrent is probably not smart enough to know your bandwidth allowance... so I would actually keep this unchecked. What you should do is test your connection at SpeedTest.net, take the numbers IN KILOBYTES (KB) and not KILOBITS (Kb), multiply those numbers by 80% (.8), then put those numbers into your upload and download limits. This way, uTorrent won't rape your bandwidth.

Global connections would be the number of connections to peers that uTorrent will make. Connected per Torrent would be the number of peers that you will make connections to per torrent. Making any of these numbers astronomical will net you no more performance than setting this to a smaller, more realistic number. Depending on your bandwidth allocation through your ISP, I would set this to a more realistic number. See the chart and source that I have in this thread, which actually covers the same topic this thread does.

Protocol Encryption is a good thing as it encrypts your data going in and out, which means that ISPs can't analyze your P2P traffic and consequently "choke" your transfer rates. (ISPs don't like peer-to-peer.) 

The numbers that Ash-Bash puts out are insane. You should never have 60 torrents active, and 63 active downloads when you already specified 60 active? Whoever made the article that Ash-Bash quoted didn't do their math right.  Refer to the aforementioned chart, or you can safely go with something low, like 5 active torrents and 4 active downloads. This will ensure decent speeds with downloading AND uploading, since you won't be struggling to download and upload from a ton of peers. The reason why I say that is because, with the settings Ash-Bash posted, you would be connected to (60 active torrents x 200 possible peers per torrent - 12000 connections, but limited to the 500 global connections you specified earlier). Check your math... it makes more sense when you do, and it ensures that you're not telling uTorrent to do the impossible. 


Everything else, I would leave alone, except for the net.max_halfopen parameter. This allows you to make as many connections as you can, but setting this to a high number does nothing if your TCP/IP settings won't allow it. LvlLord's Event 4226 TCPIP.sys patch lifts the limitations of XP and Vista as far as connections go (implemented by Microsoft as a propogation measure in the case of infection by malware) but there's only so much you can gain by applying this patch and modifying this parameter.

Again, I want to refer to you to my previous post in the other uTorrent thread for more information. There's a lot of false information out there... so common sense rules all.  Remember that these settings are dependent to your bandwidth allowance. There are no magic numbers for uTorrent that will make rocket go boom. 

[alex198555]

If there are any tools that may speed up you torrent?

[cangor]

There are like hacked versions of utorrent and stuff that are supposed to help, but, as usual, if nobody's sharing the file, then it's going to be slow or impossible to download anyways. Assuming your firewall is set up correctly as rayzoredge described, your download speed should only be limited by the number of peers/seeds and your connection bandwidth.

[frozen.fish]

it's impossible to speed up utorrent imho.
torrent bandwidth speeds are dependent on the network speed..

lastly, why use utorrent when it was acquired by the same company who hates P2P? don't you think something fishy is up?
Go open source! been using this one for a while now: http://www.binarynot...ttorrent-client

[alex198555]

Guys, do you if there are some tools or information that can speed up the uploads?

[rayzoredge]

alex198555, on Apr 7 2009, 03:47 AM, said:

Guys, do you if there are some tools or information that can speed up the uploads?

I just gave you AND linked you to information to speed up downloads AND uploads.


You can only download as fast as a peer is sending you the information, capped by your bandwidth allocation. Basically, if I can upload to you as a peer data @ 400KBps (my upload transfer rate), but your bandwidth only allows a 200KBps download limited by your ISP service, then you can only get 200KBps of data, no matter what you do. The only options here would be to upgrade your service through your ISP. The same concept applies if I had a crappy connection to you as a peer. If I could only send you a maximum of 192KBps because that's my real upload cap thanks to me being cheap and not wanting to pay more for more bandwidth, even if you had a 400KBps download allowance, you would only get my data at anywhere from 0KBps to 192KBps, depending on any other number of factors.

The best thing to do to maximize your upload rate is to upload one to a few torrents at a time and actually have decent bandwidth to do so. However, keep in mind that the more you reach the cap for your upload rate, the less data you will be able to request (which makes Internet browsing very, very painful; see my previous post). If you are looking to improve your download/upload ratio, and if you have a good connection to the Internet, seed only a few torrents that are moderately desired, unless you REALLY have an awesome Internet connection.

Think about this for a second. If you are uploading a torrent that has 100 leeches and only a few seeds, you will almost be guaranteed to connect to a bunch of these leeches and seed your file at [near] YOUR bandwidth cap, because people will be wanting to snag more data to finish their download. However, if you are uploading to a torrent with 99999 seeds, don't you think that out of the 99999 people seeding, a ton of those people probably have decent if not a better Internet connection than yours? If you are "competing" to seed and you "lose," you will be stuck with seeding fragments of files at lower transfer rates to complement the people who's bandwidths can afford to feed leechers large fragments of files at higher transfer rates. Remember that you are seeding FRAGMENTS/PIECES of files and not actual files. That's how the swarms works together to give everyone what they want, cooperatively.

Edited by rayzoredge, 07 April 2009 - 01:18 PM.

[duttadebasish84]

There are people out there who might have a real fast network at their workplace, but for obvious reasons your employer would have firewall setup in such a way that you wont have active incoming. To fix this you can try a simple yet effective technique which I have put to good use recently. You can change the port to use to something which is out of this range 49152–65535
'Cause applications use those ports, and hence those are ports which get blocked first

[Phoenix.Illusion]

There are many Tutorials out on the Internet, Andmost of them are Scams. I found some Good ones ive come Across before and Some I havent. So just make sure you read the Comments if there is any. But dont change any settings if your not sure.

- Dark Archer

[fadillzzz]

rayzoredge, on Apr 7 2009, 01:02 AM, said:

Er... OP is missing the tiny eety beety fact that adjusting uTorrent settings will be RELEVANT to your system and your connection speed. And obviously, you shouldn't change preferences if you have no idea what they do.

What anyone should be doing is to add uTorrent as a firewall exception. You should already have this enabled anyway, because Windows Firewall will prompt you whether you want to let uTorrent's traffic through or not from the get-go.

It's best if you actually leave Randomize Port unticked and specify a port of your choosing, preferably a port above 10000. When you specify a port, you have the opportunity to open that port and thus let traffic go through as you please through your router (if you have one). And of course, setting up port forwarding is specific to each router, which help on setting this up can be found on PortFoward.com.

UPnP stands for Universal Plug and Play. It makes recognition of devices on your network... well, easier, theoretically. I haven't missed it; therefore I've turned it off personally. I would think that this would improve performance through your router by a very, very slight bit... but adjust this at your own discretion.

NAT-PMP, basically, allows for automatic port forwarding. I would trust manual settings and, therefore, if you are forwarding a port yourself, to turn this off.

Setting an automatic download and upload rate is not recommended because uTorrent is probably not smart enough to know your bandwidth allowance... so I would actually keep this unchecked. What you should do is test your connection at SpeedTest.net, take the numbers IN KILOBYTES (KB) and not KILOBITS (Kb), multiply those numbers by 80% (.8), then put those numbers into your upload and download limits. This way, uTorrent won't rape your bandwidth.

Global connections would be the number of connections to peers that uTorrent will make. Connected per Torrent would be the number of peers that you will make connections to per torrent. Making any of these numbers astronomical will net you no more performance than setting this to a smaller, more realistic number. Depending on your bandwidth allocation through your ISP, I would set this to a more realistic number. See the chart and source that I have in this thread, which actually covers the same topic this thread does.

Protocol Encryption is a good thing as it encrypts your data going in and out, which means that ISPs can't analyze your P2P traffic and consequently "choke" your transfer rates. (ISPs don't like peer-to-peer.)

The numbers that Ash-Bash puts out are insane. You should never have 60 torrents active, and 63 active downloads when you already specified 60 active? Whoever made the article that Ash-Bash quoted didn't do their math right. Refer to the aforementioned chart, or you can safely go with something low, like 5 active torrents and 4 active downloads. This will ensure decent speeds with downloading AND uploading, since you won't be struggling to download and upload from a ton of peers. The reason why I say that is because, with the settings Ash-Bash posted, you would be connected to (60 active torrents x 200 possible peers per torrent - 12000 connections, but limited to the 500 global connections you specified earlier). Check your math... it makes more sense when you do, and it ensures that you're not telling uTorrent to do the impossible.


Everything else, I would leave alone, except for the net.max_halfopen parameter. This allows you to make as many connections as you can, but setting this to a high number does nothing if your TCP/IP settings won't allow it. LvlLord's Event 4226 TCPIP.sys patch lifts the limitations of XP and Vista as far as connections go (implemented by Microsoft as a propogation measure in the case of infection by malware) but there's only so much you can gain by applying this patch and modifying this parameter.

Again, I want to refer to you to my previous post in the other uTorrent thread for more information. There's a lot of false information out there... so common sense rules all. Remember that these settings are dependent to your bandwidth allowance. There are no magic numbers for uTorrent that will make rocket go boom.

thanks for the info

[guhati]

Hey Thanks Ash for providing this information. I have one question though. By doing this, wouldn't my whole computer give it's memory to Utorrent, instead of doing all seperately? I am going to wait for your reply and then try out the tweak. Thank You Again.

[Alex Cicala]

Just to add some info. when you Portforward. don't open too many ports because you will become very vulnerable to hackers. My friend opened like 20 ports and he got a virus within a day, and it was a weak as trojan, but he needed to reformat and he lost all of his data. I myself opened 1 port, but i still use a firewall, but allow utorrent though just not anything else.

Thanks for the tut anyway

[nitto1320i]

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Edited by nitto1320i, 14 May 2009 - 07:41 AM.

[nitto1320i]

tweaks only raises your bandwidth to its peak depends on your ISP. this includes your QOS and other settings on your OS. It's true that some tweaks can raise your torrent speed, but it also has a lot to do with a lot of things like seeders, leechers, qos, isp speed and so on. the best way to do it is to save your settings by remembering or writing it down, then simply try every settings on your own. Although put in mind that a tweak that promises 30% above are all crap. The max noticable changes depends on your OS settings and ISP and router if you have any. 2~10% increase is way too much.

examples are:
they suggest to use a certain listening port like 4000 or something. the disadvantage here is that like me i use a lot of software which uses a lot of port numbers like wamp server which uses ports. so if any of these softwares that is opened with the same port, it will conflict with the suggested port and you will gain backwards.. lol

another thing is the connection per torrent. as we all know that the regular os XP home only has a max connection of 10 and pro has a bit more for LAN connectivity. so if you set your max conn to lets say 100 or 1000 with a tweak, it will have a lot of conflicts on your OS like you wouldn't be able to browse the net while you download a torrent or the other way around or even simply using a single application which is connected to the net.

Conclusion:
the best way to increase you download speed is:
1. Get a faster internet connection
2. for torrent download = find a torrent with a lot of seeders
3. watch porn or something while waiting. it will make your downloading faster. lol

Edited by nitto1320i, 14 May 2009 - 07:56 AM.

[Gravity17]

I've tried a lot of these before and none of them seem to work, one even crashed my computer and I'm skeptical to try this way, can someone please tell me if it worked?

[Spyke Jones]

rayzoredge, on Apr 6 2009, 02:02 PM, said:

Er... OP is missing the tiny eety beety fact that adjusting uTorrent settings will be RELEVANT to your system and your connection speed. And obviously, you shouldn't change preferences if you have no idea what they do.

What anyone should be doing is to add uTorrent as a firewall exception. You should already have this enabled anyway, because Windows Firewall will prompt you whether you want to let uTorrent's traffic through or not from the get-go.

It's best if you actually leave Randomize Port unticked and specify a port of your choosing, preferably a port above 10000. When you specify a port, you have the opportunity to open that port and thus let traffic go through as you please through your router (if you have one). And of course, setting up port forwarding is specific to each router, which help on setting this up can be found on PortFoward.com.

UPnP stands for Universal Plug and Play. It makes recognition of devices on your network... well, easier, theoretically. I haven't missed it; therefore I've turned it off personally. I would think that this would improve performance through your router by a very, very slight bit... but adjust this at your own discretion.

NAT-PMP, basically, allows for automatic port forwarding. I would trust manual settings and, therefore, if you are forwarding a port yourself, to turn this off.

Setting an automatic download and upload rate is not recommended because uTorrent is probably not smart enough to know your bandwidth allowance... so I would actually keep this unchecked. What you should do is test your connection at SpeedTest.net, take the numbers IN KILOBYTES (KB) and not KILOBITS (Kb), multiply those numbers by 80% (.8), then put those numbers into your upload and download limits. This way, uTorrent won't rape your bandwidth.

Global connections would be the number of connections to peers that uTorrent will make. Connected per Torrent would be the number of peers that you will make connections to per torrent. Making any of these numbers astronomical will net you no more performance than setting this to a smaller, more realistic number. Depending on your bandwidth allocation through your ISP, I would set this to a more realistic number. See the chart and source that I have in this thread, which actually covers the same topic this thread does.

Protocol Encryption is a good thing as it encrypts your data going in and out, which means that ISPs can't analyze your P2P traffic and consequently "choke" your transfer rates. (ISPs don't like peer-to-peer.)

The numbers that Ash-Bash puts out are insane. You should never have 60 torrents active, and 63 active downloads when you already specified 60 active? Whoever made the article that Ash-Bash quoted didn't do their math right. Refer to the aforementioned chart, or you can safely go with something low, like 5 active torrents and 4 active downloads. This will ensure decent speeds with downloading AND uploading, since you won't be struggling to download and upload from a ton of peers. The reason why I say that is because, with the settings Ash-Bash posted, you would be connected to (60 active torrents x 200 possible peers per torrent - 12000 connections, but limited to the 500 global connections you specified earlier). Check your math... it makes more sense when you do, and it ensures that you're not telling uTorrent to do the impossible.


Everything else, I would leave alone, except for the net.max_halfopen parameter. This allows you to make as many connections as you can, but setting this to a high number does nothing if your TCP/IP settings won't allow it. LvlLord's Event 4226 TCPIP.sys patch lifts the limitations of XP and Vista as far as connections go (implemented by Microsoft as a propogation measure in the case of infection by malware) but there's only so much you can gain by applying this patch and modifying this parameter.

Again, I want to refer to you to my previous post in the other uTorrent thread for more information. There's a lot of false information out there... so common sense rules all. Remember that these settings are dependent to your bandwidth allowance. There are no magic numbers for uTorrent that will make rocket go boom.

Nice job. Every time I see people trying to get magical speeds from torrents, I don't know if it's better to sit down and write up a masterpiece, such as this, or just go on with my day...

I'm really not sure about how many bit torrent users REALLY know what is going on when they fire up their favorite P2P client...

I suggest that (after a tiny bit of editing) this post should be used as a 'Torrent Download Optimization Guide'...just an idea.

It just drives me nuts when I see people looking for un-realistic performance, with the help of some tweaks or a special crack or something...then again, for all I know, some of these people may have the hardware capabilities!

[Ash-Bash]

I really believe that most of the ways of speeding uTorrent up are scams and nearly all in my opinion slow uTorrnet down. I therefore do not edit any settings on uTorrent and it still downloads very quick.

Best way to get fast torrents is to check for lots of seeders and not so many leachers and get a better connection or ISP .

[rayzoredge]

Ash-Bash, on Sep 12 2009, 05:58 PM, said:

I really believe that most of the ways of speeding uTorrent up are scams and nearly all in my opinion slow uTorrnet down. I therefore do not edit any settings on uTorrent and it still downloads very quick.

Best way to get fast torrents is to check for lots of seeders and not so many leachers and get a better connection or ISP .

This post contradicts the whole reason why you wanted to start this thread in the first place. Why throw this kind of information out there if you believe that most of the ways of speeding up uTorrent are scams and slow uTorrent down? Why spread stupid when you can stop it right then and there by NOT spreading it?

I already like Spyke Jones because I know that he knows there isn't a magic formula... there's only optimization and working with what you have. The reason why you would want to optimize your settings AS LONG AS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE CHANGING is to optimize your contribution AND reception of data in the torrenting community. Really, the only people that do us any justice are the people who can afford high-speed Internet bandwidth like fiber and cable. I know I can't contribute much because I'm stuck with a 1.5Mbps connection with a 25+ Kbps upload, and I'm sure as hell not going to choke my Internet access so that people can download my stuff at a measly 25+ Kbps from me when they can connect to another peer that could possibly offer 150Kbps. You have to understand how the whole concept works to realize what you are doing wrong on your end, and if everyone was just out to download stuff and never seed, the system fails.

Your "best way" doesn't work if those "lots of seeders" are dial-up or low-speed cable users like myself, because you will only download at the speeds that THEY are limited to uploading. Yes, it makes sense to aim for a high amount of seeders to increase your chances of connecting with a high-speed peer, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get awesome download transfer rates. Yes, it makes sense that you would want fewer leechers so that you have a better chance of connecting to a peer that best meets your bandwidth limitations. But it's not an absolute.

I'm not targeting this at Ash-Bash, but at the audience that this subject matter attracts. There is NO magic formula, like I've said. If you stick with the defaults, you're trusting uTorrent to figure out your connection, your bandwidth, your capabilities, and you're letting it do the best it can by figuring everything out itself. But why not give it a helping hand and use common sense to be able to contribute more to the scene, download at optimum rates, and essentially be part of maintaining the entire system? I sure as heck would hate to be downloading a 700MB Linux distro at 15Kbps because you didn't care enough to set your crap right. However, if you did set your crap right, maybe you would be offering your best speeds to someone who actually IS limited to 15Kbps or to that lone leecher.

[Ash-Bash]

I really would not do my tutorial above now as the new release of uTorrent has all this and no need to edit anything just download a torrent. To really speed it up you need a good connection and fastish internet speed with patience.

[anwiii]

well, i am no master in tweeking for best performance, but from my own personal experience, finding a port that doesn't conflict with any other apps is good, changing your upload speed helps since i've found it interferes with the download speed. also, what i like to do is set my internet connection higher which enables me to download more torrents at once. the speed is relatively the same, but you are able to download more.

i did try to manually input many trackers in to the torrent i was downloading, but that really didn't seem to help much.

so although i am no master in tweeking, common sense has allowed me to download faster and more efficiently by just using the three steps above.

i haven't downloaded the new version of utorrent yet. what's the difference? the old version would always want me to download it but never did...now it has stopped asking me haha is there any difference in the performance at all?

Edited by anwiii, 05 December 2009 - 12:32 AM.

[rayzoredge]

"Tweaking" uTorrent is moreso optimizing it instead of going for "what's in the box." That's like going out and buying a dSLR camera and never using the functions to take the pictures you want.

Like I said, go with what I was saying about doing the math and calculating for your connection. You will not download anything faster than what your bandwidth allows, obviously. However, you CAN maximize that connection for your upload and download transfer rates. Remember that the closer you are to reaching the caps for your upload and download for your P2P, the more hampered your Internet browsing will be (obviously).

Upload speed should be independent of download speed. They shouldn't be "clashing" or anything like that... it's a two-lane highway there.

@Anwii: You can set up the number of simultaneous downloads through the options instead of falsifying your connection speed using the Speed Guide. Like I said, though, if you don't provide your own numbers to "tweak" uTorrent, your computer will try to make a set number of connections multiplied by the number of active uploads/downloads, and if you bombard your router with all of these incoming and outgoing requests, your Internet surfing will suffer. That's why I suggest you tone down the number of connections manually (not active downloads). Also, in that way, by "tweaking," you can actually have good transfer rates without killing your household Internet connection.

I don't know what the real differences are between uTorrent versions... you'd best be off reviewing the revision history. I know that before, uTorrent was downloaded as a stand-alone application. Now, you are presented with installation, although I suspect that it simply just places the application in a standard location to prevent people from accidental moving or deleting the uTorrent application (i.e. into the Program Files\uTorrent folder).

Edited by rayzoredge, 07 December 2009 - 03:42 PM.

[iGuest]

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