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Torrent Client Settings Optimizer

Configuring your torrent client the right way is important to get the best speeds out of BitTorrent. This simple script calculates the optimal settings for your torrent client to maximize the speed of your BitTorrent downloads.

The script is based on 1c3d0g’s excellent tutorial. The tutorial is written for uTorrent, but most of the other torrent clients out there have similar options. The only thing you need to put in are your maximum download and upload speed, the script then automatically calculates the optimal settings. If you don’t know your up and download speed, test it over here.

Check it out.

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  • Michael

    If this works, FANTASTIC…good idea

  • dellis

    Hey i tried this and it gave me some settings that ya improved the speed of bitcomet BUT my PC’s RAM took the hit and the PC was just running laggy and the internet suffered alot.

  • dellis

    It gave me download numbers in the 135kbs, i never saw those. But clearly it killed my system resources.

  • dellis

    Any idea which of the settings its making my net browsing and overall PC Lag?. Maybe i can bring it down a bit and it can still give me the amazing speeds but without the resources being sucked?.

  • Parry

    hmmmm strange people are getting problems. I used this and ive experienced no overall lag at all. My speed in uTorrent has improved though. Thanks for posting this :)

  • david bowater

    hi I have been downloading without any problems for a long time until about three weeks ago. My download speed has dropped from 60kps to 3kps.I have tried everything possible to get the speed back but nothing has worked.Have you any idea what the problem could be

  • Nacho

    Maybe its your ISP. Some ISPs have been blocking P2Ps most common ports here in argentina and its been hell just downloading a single song.
    Try alternate ports.

  • Parry

    Ive started getting the lag now :( anyone know why the lag occurs?

  • JAK

    Does This Work With Shareaza?

  • zazo

    700+kbs download speed at the same time as uploading at least 150+kbs !!!

    guess i don’t need this shit if it “speeds you up to 100kbs”.

  • TOM VU

    .. ur fuckin high if ya think ur pullin them numbers dude, lol – dont think its possible w/ torrent swarms.. however, if im mistaken — then i’m waaaay friggin jealous…

    ;)

  • zkillz

    i have gotten 600+ before but i had to limit the upload. for some reason on that connection it takes alot more bndwith to upload than to down

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  • Homer

    Awesome, a good increase in utorrent speed.

  • Captain Dark Marker

    Why hello, Yeah I just hit 240k downloading v for vendetta, Im impressed…. Now I have one more tip for u that I was informed of as of late, I work for a fellow isp and was told about port 1720 ……. Which is a port that can’t use shaders do to the fact that it is reserved for “Voip” Voice over ip connections. Give it a try

  • Cyber2

    you guys gotta be kidding…:| bitcomet downloads just as usual…that TWEAK doesn’t work…!!!

  • corky

    using bit comet what is a good download speed to be looking for im on broadband and my download speed is about 3.5 kbs

  • zarathustra

    Was getting 125kB/s!

    w00t! =]

  • zarathustra

    try again – was getting less than 3kB/s – scratched head, swapped out firewalls, then decided to throttle uploads to 80% of max, & am currently pullin greater than 125kB/s! w00t (again)!

  • GGAmer

    I Have been at an average of 135 kbps/second until I tried this where is dropped to 4 kb/sec

  • i cant get any speed

    i should be getting around 750kb a second i got the green light and port mapped in router but all my internet activities can start at around 300 or over and ten go back to under a 100. i have no idea what to do. been trying to tweak and edit netsettings but nothing is working. even tried hooking up my speedtouch router and resetting but nothing does it.

    any ideas? (MY WINDOWS DISK IS SCRATCHED SO I CANT USE IT)

  • asd

    i cant forward ports
    and i need help

    plz

  • marga

    right i have aplied that patch but at no point could i choose what to set the net.max_hlaf open to any thing it apears in event log system as event 4226 with a caution symbol with it . i then downloaded 10 free dj demo tapes thru u torrent and my overall download speed averaged around 500 kb/s maxing @ 640 ocasionally
    but now im trying to download a large file and im maxing out around 50 kb/s which is a bummer there are plenty of seeds but i mainly seem to be downloading off the slower peers ? is this usual is there anything i can do to get better speed i use utorrent 1.6

    thanx

  • adamkinesis

    is the utorrent settings optimizer dead? i haven’t been able to load it for the past several days.

  • Bardicknowledge

    I have written a similar guide, more consdensed and to the point and much less imposing for those new to utorrent. If you are interted check it out @

    http://paperkingdoms.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/utorrent-speed-problems/

    I have also guide a almost complete guide to utorrent (working on the proxy thing) and to their new webUI.

  • k4hvd

    The link is DEAD……

    Please submit new link.

  • vex

    when i download patch and run it,nothing happens….it just pop up cmd and exits immediately…what should i do?

  • anibal

    what a pity! page is down :(
    a mirror or something guys?

  • aonghas

    Hey the link is dead. Where is the file? GRR I want it, my speeds are dropping :(

  • 420

    am on a 100mbps lan ethernet network and am still only getting 12kb/s no matter what i do its still the same speed

  • Jo

    All I get is a 404 Not Found. Has the page moved or is it history?

  • http://torrentfreak.com Ernesto

    [quote comment="30505"]All I get is a 404 Not Found. Has the page moved or is it history?[/quote]
    I’m afraid it’s gone

  • Help ME!!!!!

    my speeds are so bloody slow can u please put another link!
    i need this bad!

  • Daedelus

    El Deado Linko!!!

  • Smokey

    how are u guys getting only 3kb/s??? that stuns me. im pullin 293 overall. if anyone knows if or how i can tweak that up PROPERLY then let me know

  • Paco

    Hey I ended up with the same problem as most. I was “ok” before the fix now my resources are killed and dl speeds are real shitty. If I’m lucky I will max out around 35kps but most times I am

  • chipz

    i just recently got speeds of 1.3M/sec total downloading…all i did was forward the listening port on my router.. changed firewall xceptions, ran a speed test, capped the D/U limits n wahey

    (im onli using sky BB
    lol

    is this any help?

  • PuckShot

    WOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOO

    I have been messin’ with utorrent trying to increase my speeds for weeks now. I had speeds (ON A GOOD DAY) of 30 kb/s. I am now reaching speeds of 300 kb/s.

    Thank you soooooooooooo much to whoever is responsible for this site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ednamosa

    I cant connect to remote ips in bitcomet and cant have enough download
    speed b/w 5 to 10 kB/s while i tried every thing even my download speed is 50 to 80 kB/s and upload is 35kB/s

  • brock

    Can someone give me a link, I realy need it

    brockrolph@yahoo.com

  • sumith

    i’m havin a 128 kbps connection… n i’m havin download speeds between 20 to 30kBps… is tat ok?… but i wish i had more speed.. can u plz tell me is ther a way to get speeds exceeding wat i hav specified above….

  • trup

    Can anyone post this on rapidshare or somewhere?

  • lipdog

    How do you patch utorrent. patch 2.23

  • lumisi

    Link is dead…

  • Matt Hodstone

    Wow, I am so amazed on this. My download speed reached over 7000K! I am so fucking amazed, I downloaded CS:S in about just 26 minutes! This is so amazing but all I did not like is that it fucked up my system, It always lags and my browser does not work so well.

  • Spiffy

    Oi Matt how did you get it if the link has been dead for months ?

    I wanna link…..

  • Tim

    Hah! Just use direct downloads! Bah.

  • neal

    Anyone heard of patients?????????????????????????????????

  • kris

    [quote comment="785"]Does This Work With Shareaza?[/quote]

  • sikkiboy

    portforward.com 4 everybody

  • sanjuu

    hi i am using 128 kb/s connection how can i increase speed of utorrent 1.81: i am getting downloading speed aroun 12 to 13kb/s .its so hard and boring 2 dl Moveis …nd i also apply all the above step bt nt solvd my prblm…
    so help me…my id sanjoy1990@gmail.com

  • sanjuu

    pls help me…………at sanjoy1990@gmail.com

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