uTorrent Developer Shares BitTorrent Speed Tips
Written by Ernesto on August 05, 2008Configuring your BitTorrent client is essential if you want to enjoy optimal download speeds. In our quest to help users get the most out of BitTorrent, we asked one of the uTorrent developers how we can speed up our downloads.
At TorrentFreak we have written quite a few speed guides, but we are not as knowledgeable as the people who work with BitTorrent clients daily. A few weeks ago we asked Olivier Chalouhi, developer and CTO of Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) to share some of his BitTorrent speed tips with us.
Today we continue our mission to help people get the most out of BitTorrent, by asking uTorrent developer Greg Hazel to give us his recommendations on how to optimize BitTorrent download speeds. Here are his three suggestions.
Cap the upload speed
Limiting your upload speed is by far the most important suggestion, and was also mention by Olivier Chalouhi in our previous BitTorrent speed guides. The rationale behind it is simple. Your connection is a tube (sort of), if you max out the upload capacity, the tube gets clogged.
Choose the correct maximum number of connections
Too much connections can actually slow down your torrents, instead of increasing the download speed. The uTorrent speed guide (Options > Speed Guide in uTorrent) automatically recommends the ideal settings. For users with a maximum upload speed of 256 kbit/sec, uTorrent suggests a maximum of 35 connections per torrent, and 60 in total.
Run as few torrents as possible
Less is more, sometimes at least. Running fewer torrents will guarantee that your connection can handle all the connections and requests properly. Since BitTorrent rewards people for uploading, the less torrents you run, the faster they will download. Again, the uTorrent speed guide will suggest the optimal settings, which is a maximum of 2 torrents for users with a maximum upload speed of 256 kbit/sec.
These three settings are the most important according to Greg, and configuring them correctly in your BitTorrent client, is the key to faster downloads.
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In other words, just let the client configure everything for you…
lol, yeah utorrent sets most things up fine
And be patient!
it doesn’t forwards ports for you though. doing this made a big difference to my speeds
Peter Green hit it on the nail, BE PATIENT. Set and FORGET. Download overnight or put Log Me In on your computer and control your torrents remotley, by the time you get home there done!
http://www.logmein.com
I’m not a uTorrent user but surely it can port forward through UPnP?
surely you wouldn’t want to be running UpNp ;)
Using Orac does wonders for speed. Having patients is tough these days, but do or do not. There is no try.
uTorrent does UPnP just fine.
Ok, the first suggestion is totally oximoronic. Limit your upload speed? If everyone does this, no one’s downloads will go any faster because everyone’s upload speed will be capped.
Some people can limit their upload speed and still seed at a decent pace. Most can’t.
get cfos/cfosspeed from your nearest tracker
it will automatically limit your upload speed depending on your download speed, so if you are not downloading you seed with your full bandwidtch. if you are downloading your upload wont hog the download bandwidth.
@10 you have to limit it to at least a little less than your max upload speed so there is bandwidth for the ACKs or you won’t get any packets downloaded either.
I’m just patient because I don’t want to cap some of the uploading torrents or I won’t get a proper chance to seed them well later so it’s now or never.
agreewith 12
@10 - its best to limit your up to about 80% of what it can actually handle so for example, with 256 up, this is not 194.8, for me its about 20.
As was said, if people have above 256, they can still seed, dl and do some basic http and im before things get slow.
uTorrent is fine as it is.
Try uTorrent WebUI for controlling from browser.
Set up port forwarding for internet remote control.
Plus for remote desktop try
VNC or M$ Remote Desktop
I think there’s some portals for the PSP to control your torrents too. I for got what its called
I think its nametaken33 or something
iPhone try iSlsk
About upload speed, for me I let my upload go unlimited and it works fine. It’s my download that I have to limit at 80% of the total or it halves my upload speed and makes internet browsing nearly unusable.
16 you are totally backwords. Upload is what kills your web browsing and download speed.
You know, these articles on “speed tips” are a little more than redundant by now. Give me a break already.
@18
Um, don’t click the link that says “uTorrent Developer Shares BitTorrent ****Speed Tips****” then?
i use azureus ;)
Didn’t you ask him when the hell he will make a Linux version??? They were bought by BitTorrent Inc already, are they waiting for a second buyout!?
Best speed tip is : get a premium MU/RS account and download stuff from there
for the rest (if there is) use irc
and if theres still stuff left well use torrents with settings above
best speed tip is
don’t use utorrent
@ 22: Usenet is even faster than MU/
RS or even IRC, provided you use a
premium service like Giganews. You’ll
hit your maximum line speed every
time.
If there’s something recent and
popular, I’ll check there first,
usually on an indexing site like
Binsearch or Newzbin.
If I can’t wait, or there’s something
only found on BitTorrent, I’ll go there.
RS sucks ass! and you can only download 5gb a day.. wtf?
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