uTorrent is the best and most used P2P client. Now a days most of Pirated movies and softwares are coming first on torrent sites than those made Rapidshare or other direct download sites. Rapidshare many times block many ISP including India’s BSNL. Here according to my personal experience i am sharing few 100% working tricks to increase the download speed of uTorrent.
Choosing the Torrent file
Before tweaking your uTorrent, you must choose the best and healthy torrent file for your speedy downloads. Read my post about Choosing the torrent file for high speed download in any torrent client.
Choosing the correct site for downloading the Torrents
Trackers play much important in speed of your torrent download, so you must choose the torrent download sites perfectly. You can read my list of best torrent sites.
Port forwarding
To achieve the top speed in uTorrent your port must be forwarded. The forwarded port in uTorrent then the status bar in uTorrent will show Green icon. Else it will be exclamation mark.
If it is forwarded then it is fine, else you need to change the port number to get the correct port.Choose a port number greater than 10,000 . Currently i am using port number “43081″ and it is forwarded. Choose any number and check if it is forwarded or not. You can change the port number through clicking on that icon or by pressing “CTRL+G”.
Save your port
Once you got the perfect port number, make sure your option in Option >> Preference >> Connection >> “Randomize port each start” is unchecked.
Tell windows, uTorrent is working for me
Windows firewall may try to block the uTorrent connection with the network, thats why make sure your option in Option >> Preference >> Connection >> “Add windows firewall exception” is checked.
Dont tell your ISP that you are using uTorrent
Many ISP’s block uTorrent downloads, that’s why make sure your option in Option >> Preference >> BitTorrent >> Protocol Encryption is Enabled. This will surely increase your speed.
Hey Firewall, let the flow come in
If you are using any firewall software, add uTorrent in “allowed application” or “allowed programs” so that they will allow uTorrent to work to get maximum speed.
Upload : Download – Ratio
I suggest keep changing the ratio as per speed, i try to keep this ratio at 0.5 i.e. if my download speed us 100KB/ps then i will keep my upload speed near to 50KB/ps. keep changing this speed. NEVER make upload speed to ZERO. Many torrent trackers ban the IPs who do not upload so keep this option atleast close to 50%.
There are many other options in uTorrent, i recommend you dont play with them. They will not affect your speed, but may cause lesser speed problem.
Apart from choosing best torrent file, i have few more tricks read them too.
Dec 4, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Nice post Chetan G.
This should helo me in faster downloads …
But can you tell me what if the seeders are less and lechers are more ???
This might affect the speed of downloading ….
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Dec 4, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Yes, it will affect.
Please check this post How to choose best Torrent to download
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Jun 23, 2009 at 4:23 pm
hey.
can u tell me what is post forwarding???
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Aug 13, 2009 at 8:59 pm
worked for me getinng 180kps of speed
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Sep 7, 2009 at 11:59 pm
hey…..i’m using bitcomet….and getting speeds upto 150 to 230 kbps……isn’t it good..and it has also list of all the torrent sites…you have to just double click them….
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Prakash Replied:
May 21, 2010 at 12:20 am
@sambit,
Yeah, BitComet do provide good speed dan UTorrent, rite??
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Oct 4, 2009 at 8:23 pm
its ok but still a speed prb
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Oct 12, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Hey, great work Chetan =)
I’ve tried all your suggestions above; you mentioned to change the Protocol Encryption to “Disabled”, whereas mine had priorly been enabled. I thought that changing this would solve the problem, but no.. =|
I left UTorrent open overnight with downloads going on at a normal seed of 30kbps, but in the morning, it was downloading at 0.4kbps, and has been continuing with the same sluggish speed ever since. I checked my net speed, and it says that it’s 30kbps, but UTorrent isn’t downloading at any speed greater than 0.4 kbps..
Need Help!
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Oct 12, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Hey Chetan!
Feel like hugging you xD
It’s coming! I’m not sure whether it was changing the Protocol Encryption to Enabled, or removing and installing UTorrent a second time in an act of sheer desperation (* =P *), but it’s working now anyway >:D<
Thank You SoOo much *HuGs*
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Oct 16, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Hey guys, Am using ul 750 plan but my connection speed by testing speed was 138 kbps. But i only get 30-35kbps when I download….. Anybody ppplllssss help me to overcome this
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Nov 8, 2009 at 9:05 pm
make upload setting maximium 70/kb/s then connection will take over at a better speed!
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Nov 19, 2009 at 12:41 am
thanx dude dat was a really good info to share ………..keep up the good work..
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Nov 25, 2009 at 8:09 am
goood explaination
thanks
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Dec 7, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Tanya again =P.
This may be a really dumb question, but what are the settings under “Preferences” in UTorrent to keep the Download:Upload ratio at a minimum of 2:1
(* Told you it could be a dumb question =P *)
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DK Replied:
December 30, 2009 at 12:20 am
@Tanya, its under the ‘queueing’ section in preferences.. jus set the ratio to 50%.. dat’l make it 0.5
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Dec 30, 2009 at 10:43 am
hey chetan.. i could never get a forwarded port for myself using that “test if the port is forwarded properly” thing.. can u plz help wid port forwarding??
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Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 pm
i tried to change the settings in Windows firewall & also utorrent but my download speed is still from 10 to 14kBps.Please Help me to increase the speed to 30 to 32kBps.Please send me the solution on my Email
Thank You
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Mar 19, 2010 at 1:06 pm
hae i m using bsnl 750uL plan n geting low downloading speed whn more thn one ports are used……
give some tips to increse the speed of more thn one port
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Mar 20, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Hi Chetan,
Very well explained about U torrent. Thank you so much but I am getting the spped of 20-23 kbps bsnl UL 750 plan.
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Mar 22, 2010 at 6:42 pm
i and my friend both are using same connection buthe is geting more speed for torrent downloads can i decrease his speed
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Apr 30, 2010 at 12:12 am
can u explain more abt port forwarding and open port…..things?? how to know which is the best port??
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May 1, 2010 at 11:26 am
Nice post Chetan but d ting is 75% of download speed depends on ur plan and download speed
I am using Bsnl Combo 599
Download speed is :
512kbps in day
1 mbps in nite
but d prob is tat in day my speed is 75KBps n in nite
it drops 2 35 KBps
can u plz solv my prob
thx in advance
Send it 2 my ID
akashr1997@gmail.com
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Oct 17, 2010 at 8:17 am
Instead of trying the random port umber to check them forward or not. U can make the port forward as…….
Open a web browser window and type your Default Gateway IP number in the address bar. It should be 192.168.1.1 in most cases.
2) To login leave username blank and type admin for the password (unless you have changed it before which is always advisable)
3) Find the section that says Port Range Forwarding or similar
4) Add in the port range 6881-6889 for Torrent files
5) Make sure you check both protocol boxes TCP and UDP as well as the Enable setting.
6) Have the forward address set as your internal IP address 192.168.1.72 in our case. To find yours Go to Start -> Run and type in cmd. This will open a DOS window. Type the command IPCONFIG and look for your �IP Address�.
1) Open a web browser window and type your Default Gateway IP number in the address bar. It should be 192.168.1.1 in most cases.
2) To login leave username blank and type admin for the password (unless you have changed it before which is always advisable)
3) Find the section that says Port Range Forwarding or similar
4) Add in the port range 6881-6889 for Torrent files
5) Make sure you check both protocol boxes TCP and UDP as well as the Enable setting.
6) Have the forward address set as your internal IP address 192.168.1.72 in our case. To find yours Go to Start -> Run and type in cmd.
This will open a DOS window. Type the command IPCONFIG and look for your �IP Address�.
7) Confirm and submit all the changes and that will probably work.
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Feb 28, 2012 at 12:18 pm
hey guys,
i am reealy addicted 2 download 2-3 movies per day and watch em.
my connection was providing me a healthy speed of about 55-60 kbps,but nw it has suddenly decreased to 24 kbps & i can hardly dload a movie…..
pls help me in my crisis asap…..pls
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