Optimizing uTorrent

[ManBearPig]

Are there any good guides or anything to help customize utorrent for the best speeds? thanks

 

[KeithTalent]

Lots of info here: Utorrent Info

 

[TheRyuu]

Yes

People will say to use the speedguide built into bittorrent, but I just don't trust it

 

[KoolDrew]

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[Nothinman]

Wow, do you people really have this much trouble with bittorrent download speeds? All I've ever done is forward the right ports and mine go full speed as long as there's enough seeds and peers.

 

[duragezic]

Hahah, right on Nothinman. I have seen both of those links, and honestly unless you are very new/noobish to bittorrent, those pages don't give you much at all. I mean where the hell does that guy in the first link come up with those formulas? Any of the more "advanced" settings have no explanation about them, heh. Some of the replies: "OMG SWEET, my torrentz goes fast!!"

I dunno, I guess some things are just obvious to me. But as Nothinman said, generally having the port forwarded will do enough (but you must visit portforward.com, it's very complicated to forward). Sure you can tweak it out some, but don't do anything stupid. Today, I set the new uTorrent 1.6 to a 2mbit connect since I have a 5mbit download connect. The default upload was just ridiculous. I guess maybe it should've specified if your upload was synced with your download which is rare anyway. And the max # of connections was like 750?? Yeah, find me a router capable of handling anywhere near that! You can get several hundred k/s download with quite minimal settings as long as your ports are forwarded. No need to fvck around with sh*t you have no clue about (like a lot of these guides).

 

[Nothinman]

(but you must visit portforward.com, it's very complicated to forward).

Complicated? You have to know 2 things, the IP of your internal machine and the port you want to forward and you just plug those into the right place on your router.

And the max # of connections was like 750?? Yeah, find me a router capable of handling anywhere near that!

No SOHO routers can handle a thousand connections? Wow, glad I never bought one of those.

 

[duragezic]

Your sarcasm detector is broke on quote # 1, and as far as # 2, I thought I seen some articles testing the # of connections possible, and even the supposed gaming or higher end routers weren't anywhere near that many. Seems like as soon as other people using my net connect starting loading up torrents with way too high of settings, or just too many at lower settings, I get very frequent disconnects which I thought was from the upload speed and simultaneous connections on the router. Like right now, gd is my "5 meg" internet that's $70/mo yet is ridiculous slow thanks to inconsiderate yet constant torrenting. Great.

 

[Nothinman]

Note extreme sarcasm on your quote # 1

Well as I'm sure you're aware sarcasm doesn't translate very well via text, that's why things like smilies and excessive exclamation marks are usually used to emphasize it.

and as far as # 2, I thought I seen some articles testing the # of connections possible, and even the supposed gaming or higher end routers weren't anywhere near that many. Seems like as soon as other people using my net connect starting loading up torrents with way too high of settings, or just too many at lower settings, I get very frequent disconnects which I thought was from the upload speed and simultaneous connections on the router.

That sucks, the default for bittornado here seems to be unlimited and I've never seen any problems.

 

[duragezic]

I know I know, but c'mon now, I've made jokes about it before even.

I don't know.. even when I start up some on my own, adding to the ones already going on the router and connection, sh*t goes to hell even more. So I can't say for sure what causes it since I have quite limited networking knowledge, but my original point being I don't see what these guides have to offer or where they can come up with some tips listed.

 

[Forsythe]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Wow, do you people really have this much trouble with bittorrent download speeds? All I've ever done is forward the right ports and mine go full speed as long as there's enough seeds and peers.

I get a maximum of 30 kb/s. Yes i have problems.

 

[QueBert]

a lot of people have problems with the max numbers of connections. MY GF's internet would drop all the time, she had a Dlink router. I got her a Buffalo and the problem has been correctly. 1,000 sounds way too high. That will bring a bunch of routers to their knees

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: Forsythe

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Wow, do you people really have this much trouble with bittorrent download speeds? All I've ever done is forward the right ports and mine go full speed as long as there's enough seeds and peers.

I get a maximum of 30 kb/s. Yes i have problems.

Thats probably your ISP more than your client.

You could try enabling encryption in the options but I've not found that to help (I have the same problem).

 

[Nothinman]

1,000 sounds way too high. That will bring a bunch of routers to their knees

Sounds like you guys have just decided that SOHO routers should suck, 1000 connections shouldn't require much in the way of resources and no way should be able to over power a half-decent embedded device. The memory required for a single connection is on the order of a handful of bytes, so even assuming their custom OS is really stupid and rounding up to 2K each that's only 2M of memory.

I'm not saying that they don't suck and they won't drop connections, but that doesn't mean people should keep blindly buying them without complaining to the manufacturer, how else do you expect things to get better?

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

1,000 sounds way too high. That will bring a bunch of routers to their knees

Sounds like you guys have just decided that SOHO routers should suck, 1000 connections shouldn't require much in the way of resources and no way should be able to over power a half-decent embedded device. The memory required for a single connection is on the order of a handful of bytes, so even assuming their custom OS is really stupid and rounding up to 2K each that's only 2M of memory.

I'm not saying that they don't suck and they won't drop connections, but that doesn't mean people should keep blindly buying them without complaining to the manufacturer, how else do you expect things to get better?

My router can handel 4096 connections.
If I really did have it that high I'm sure my download bandwidth would suck from the overhead though.