UTorrent Tweak - Increase Utorrent Download Speed

Ultimate utorrent tweaks to make maximum out of your bandwidth

Utorrent being an ultimate torrent client gives the best to download anything and of any size.There are lot of utorrent tweaks and settings for both xp and vista which can make download faster,increase utorrent download speed and you can make most of your bandwidth.Most of the people tend to ignore their utorrent bandwidth tweaks and settings resulting in lower upload and slow download. .So Lets speed tweak utorrent.

Optimum Bandwidth Settings

The Speed Guide in utorrent is the easiest way to get right upload and download speed. Press [Ctrl + G] or go to options>speed guide. There you will get a drop downbox . connection type, which lets you choose your closest connection speed. Then click Use Connection Settings. The maximum number and other settings will be automatically applied.

utorrent speedguide

Setting Up Ports

Since utorrent is a p2p client, thus you need to have open ports which act as entry point for people to get data from you. If you don’t have open ports you won’t get sufficient download rate either.Some ISP’s and routers block. If you are using routers, set it up to forward the ports on using in utorrent. You can check to find the correct port using the options>speedguide. Enter a port number and check it. It will open up a new web page which can tell if the port is open or not. If not choose a different port till u find the correct port number. Check the above image for this. If you are using router check this page Routers Port Index , If you want to find out what are the common ports used by other programs, here is the list Cports

Encrypting Network Data

Similarly some ISP’s try to limit the bandwidth to p2p applications. uTorrent have protocol encryption which makes detection and limiting by ISP’s harder.You can enable protocol encryption by going to Options > Preferences > Bittorrent. There is a section called as Protocol Encryption, choose Enabled or Force. This can speed up your bandwidth.

Encrypt datat in utorrent

Removing the Connection Limit for XP

Here we are going to modify and replace a system file, So do it at your own risk. But its sure does work.First backup your TCPIP.Sys. Now if you are using windows XP Sp2, the chances are your “maximum half open connection limit is most likely to 10. There are pacthes availble which can remove this problem. One such patcher is http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads . Download the English version and execute the exe in it.

Patch utorrent windows xp

Tip for Vitsa to increase utorrent speed.

Go to Options -> Preferences -> Advanced. The second option under Advanced is ‘net.bind_ip’. Set this to the IP address of your computer. Restart utorrent. This will definetly increase download speed and seeds also.

Using the Web Interface:

uTorrent has a web interface called as Web UI. This allows you to control uTorrent remotely through a browser. You can do pretty much the same things you can do with the program on your computer.To enable WebUI, go to options > Preferences > Advanced > Web. Click on Enable Web interface. Enter username and password. You can download the Web Ui from http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=14565. Download and uncompress the rar file and cpy it to Documents and Settings/[Your username]\Application Data\utorrent.IE sometimes doesnt work with it,So either use opera or firefox. Now to access your utrrrent from web open url which should be like this http://Machine_name_or_IP:Port/gui. It will ask for user name and password. There you go ….use from anywhere you want

Enable Web Ui for utorrent

Settings Download Speed Schedules

uTorrent like any other download manager has a scheduler but it goes one step ahead. You can speed limits during certain period of time. To use it go to Options > Preferences >Scheduler. Click on Enable Scheduler. Here you can setUpload and download rate when the schedule is enabled. You can see scheduler table where you can click on any day and give your preferences to Limit, Turnoff or Full speed and set the bandwidth usage. Dark green is full speed, light green is limited speed and white is turned off.

Schedule utorrent

Create New torrent and add them to trackers

You can create your won torrent file and upload to trackers. Select from menu, File > Create New Torrent > Add file or directory. Enter the address of the tracker that you want to upload, Give a name and save it.You can also select if you want to start seeding now or even you can make it private.Now you can pass it to torrent or friends.

torrent tracker

All these setting can definetly help you to make maximum usage out of your bandwidth. I have tested them and it works great for me. I am sure will work for you too.Enjoy it !!!

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Friedbeef, August 24, 2007:

Nice post man!
Ken Xu, August 24, 2007:

WOw! Nice tips. I haven’t try uTorrent before. I use BitComet 0.70 a lot. I will try to download uTorrent to see if it is better than BitComet or not.

Thanks for the tips.
Jason, August 24, 2007:

Time tell me the choice I made to switch from Bitlord to utorrent is right. uTorrent is reliable, flexible and features-rich.
Ashish Mohta, August 24, 2007:

@Firedbeef: Thanks man!!
@KenXu: Just use them and see how much difference it will bring to you
@Jason:Nothing can beat utorrent
Madhur Kapoor, August 24, 2007:

Nice post Ashish sir , i have bookmarked it for use when i get home . Currently torrents are blocked in college
Vijay, August 25, 2007:

I was not aware of most of these tips though I’ve used utorrent for sometime now. Thanks a lot for this detailed and wonderful post!
Ashish Mohta, August 25, 2007:

@Madhur: Thanks a lot. I hope this post helps out more people once it gets indexed.
@VIjay: You are most welcome. Glad it will help u out
William, September 5, 2007:

Without real IP address you won’t get fast download traffic in Torrent network.
Thilak, September 22, 2007:

Based on my observation here in India. Airtel is the only ISP who scans and drops BitTorrent packets, so if you are using any other ISP (in India of course), encryption isn’t necessary.
Ashish Mohta, September 22, 2007:

@Thilak: Thanks for the info, I hope other ISP’s dont follow it else it will be a big problem
Thilak, September 23, 2007:

@Ashish: Yeah, I hope the same. I also hope that these BitTorrent clients evolve and be immune to these unfair packet dropping tricks employed by evil ISPs
majood, November 16, 2007:

thanks man for this
it’s really nice
Kushagra, December 7, 2007:

Great post man my net speed has increased thanks
kush saraswat, December 19, 2007:

great !!!!!!!
and thanks !!!
many of them i knew before
Beowulf, December 20, 2007:

@Ashish

all of that is nice…

but i would really like to know how (or better yet) why i cannot connect and download from more seeders then 20

for example: getting a torrent with hundreds if not thausands of seeders but it only connects to 20…and so i only get about 30kbs download

please help
thanks
Joel, January 1, 2008:

OMG ….. This is insane… This is by far the most helpful informaton that I have found on the web for ages. Thumbs up
Ashish Mohta, January 1, 2008:

@Joel: Cool this stuff helped you a lot. Ist great to hear, if you have some question still in case do tell us
Beowulf, January 2, 2008:

@Ashish: i asked a question and i still havent gotten a response…

if u do not know the answer at least tell me…ill try and get proffesional help somewhere else then…but at least let me know
Ashish Mohta, January 2, 2008:

@Beowulf: Here is one analysis I did for you.

In Utorrent we have something called as encryption/decryption. In case you are looking for seeders both ( you and seeder) should be either using encrypted or no encryption.

Assuming you are not using encryption, You can only connect to peers/seeds that have no encryption enabled which may account for your problems

PS:Sorry for the delay, I overlooked
Beowulf, January 7, 2008:

well…i tried both versions…
i had the encryption disabled at first… with the result of only a few seeders connected and at very low speeds…
i enabled the encryption and restarted utorrent just to be sure the settings gets applied properly… and now i get even worse speeds and about the same ammount of seeds
is there a diff reason for this happening?
btw firewalls and all that drama are dissabled and i got a 7mb download and 1 mb upload connection
(not that it ever gets that high….but yeah)
Ashish Mohta, January 7, 2008:

@Bewulf: Sounds something is wrong. Is there anything with your ISP. I have heard stories ISP blocking utorrent transactions. I will further look and see if I can find something more.
Kiran., January 8, 2008:

@Bewulf:Hi,Go to Options–>Preferences—>Bit Torrent.Here there is a section called “Number of connections”.Try increasing the number of connections to 9999.Also check whether inOptions–>Preferences—>Connections.In the section called “Global Bandwidth limiting” check whether there is no restrictions on maximum download rate .Set it to 0-unlimited.Hope the above tip works out !!Kiran.
Ashish Mohta, January 8, 2008:

@Kiran: Thanks for the tip. Lets see if that helps Bewulf.
Beowulf, January 8, 2008:

i live in toronto canada
i got a cable dsl connection
my isp is rogers

maybe that will help you
i know that some isp’s block the transfers but even so…i should be able to connect more seeds…. i mean… if i would be able to connect 200 - 300 seeds for a torrent…. and the speed wouldnt exceed 50kb’s then yes… ud be right… the isp’s would slow me down on purpose….

but since im only getting 10 - 20 seeders connected… there must be a problem with utorrent… i doubt the isp’s would be able to stop me from connecting to seeders….

i know they strangle the bandwidth…or even monitor your transfers… but i dont think they are able to stop seeders from connecting..

thx…hope to hear from you soon
Beowulf, January 8, 2008:

btw…there are no restrictions set to anything…

i have everything set to max and i have no limits on upload or download

i share my stuff with about 80 - 100 kbs
and i get about 100 to 400 leachers connected
depending on the size of the file
Ankit, January 12, 2008:

I did everything you said and I use Vista, I have Youtelecom (Iqara connection) with the speed of 192 kbps and did not work, no improvement in speed.
cameron, January 18, 2008:

i have dial up just wondering what best setting are i have opened port ok but still run only 4kb/s is that the best i will get
Ashish Mohta, January 20, 2008:

@Cameron: I really doubt there can lot of improvement on increasing speed with dialup. The dialup itself has very low bandwidth of download and upload.
Beowulf, January 22, 2008:

@Ashish

im still waiting for a response…
richard, January 26, 2008:

would like to know how to tweak ares ultra downloads, and why do i get disconnected alot when chatting? What should upload and download limits be set at? what about incoming port, i haven’t messed with anything yet.
please help if u can
Ashish Mohta, January 26, 2008:

@Richard: I will work on your questions and make sure come out with some thing positive.
Ashfame, February 27, 2008:

Good post. I never knew that utorrent can be remotely controlled. Its time to control the utorrent in our net lab. lol
Also how can i specifically connect to a particular computer in the lab as they all share single IP address?
dlguy, March 5, 2008:

@beowulf

windows xp and vista both have internal limits set to concurrent half open connections. this effectively limits how many computers can be connected directly to your computer for you to download from.

each version of windows has a different number limited. the more expensive windows seem to have higher numbers by default (but not many, like 30 max afaik).

there are quite a few guides on how to hack your tcpip.sys file to increase this number, but i have found with my vista ultimate 64 bit that trying to do so ruins the operating system (tried three different patchers and had to repair from vista DVD all three times).

xp it seems is easier to patch, but i haven’t done this yet.

amazingly after trying hundreds of different ‘tricks’ etc like the ones on this page, updating utorrent seemed to bump my speed up considerably. i just run it on randomize port, encryption on, and utorrent’s net.max_halfopen at 200. i’m currently getting 100kBp/s on a well seeded video file. not fantastic but bearable.
Ashish Mohta, March 5, 2008:

Thanks DlGuy. I was looking for someone to say on this thanks again
Brian, March 8, 2008:

O.M.G. i was download a file at 6 kb per sec…and i did this…and it went to 171.something..WOW. thank you so much!!
Ashish Mohta, March 8, 2008:

Wow Brian. Pretty cool . I guess you got more than me there lol. Thanks for the update Really appriciate it. Tell everybody about this so they also get the advantage
Hammoda, March 22, 2008:

Hello there,

I really appreciate all your tips but it seems that whatever happens i will still have very low download speeds in U Torrent

- I’m using U Torrent 1.7.7

- I’ve foreworded the port which is 45682 successfully
i have a 1 Mbit connection

- I’m using Windows XP SP2 ( i’ve removed the XP Download-speed limit as i installed the patch that you gaev to us )

-I’ve enabled the Encrypting thing as well

-I’m downloading files with thousands of seeders and leechers

but i still get the maximum speed of around 15 KB/S which is unfair

any suggestions ?

Thanx alot in advanced

-Hammoda-
soVICH, March 23, 2008:

Ashfame there is a new uTorrent WebUI Gadget for Vista which you might want to have a look at

http://gadget.morrent.com/
Jack, March 31, 2008:

HI, I have SBC Yahoo DSL. And the most Download Speed I get Is 100 Kb/s.
I have Windows Vista Home Premium. But i Have Tried All of this and still no more Than 110 Kb/s and Every Now And then I get About 30Kb/s. Is There a Reason why?

P.S. My Current Port it is Forwarding so I Dont Get What Could Be Wrong.
Berlin, April 3, 2008:

I’m using utorrent but it stopped downloading.Im on256 speed, but I could only download from 3kbs to 15 kbs even if peers ands seeds are more than 30. A 1GB file could take me several weeks before completing downloading it. Could anyone help me how I could speed up my download. I’m connected to a router.

Any help will do. Thanks
Rohit, April 15, 2008:

THANKS A LOT MAN!!! After doing the first few steps, my download speeds jumped from 5-6 kbps to 51kbps!!! AWESOME!!!
Ashish, April 15, 2008:

welcome rohit. It had worked for many but some ppl say it did not. Thanks for feedback
Jack, April 18, 2008:

I got a router now and mos of the time i get 10kps-15kps. the most speed i get is about 30kps. my por is still forwarding.

P.S. Please tell me ashish if you dont know whats wrong.
Ashish, April 18, 2008:

@Jack. I will get back to you on this. I need to figure it out. Give me some time
Jack, April 19, 2008:

@Ashish
Thanks, It would be much apreciated if you figure it out. Thanks again.
Cadaver, April 20, 2008:

Excelente !!!

Chido !!!

Thnx !!!!
alex, April 21, 2008:

hi please can some one tell me how to speed up my connection for utorrent

my internet connection is 2mbs but i only get an average download rate of 10kb/s

please some 1 help
vikas, April 21, 2008:

what config can is use for 2 mbps bsnl…i getting the download speed at 50kbps….pls help me…ashish…what can i do…ti increase the download speed..
vannav, April 25, 2008:

Hey ashish ,
i tried all the initial steps. but still my speeds are hovering around 25-29 kbps.
I use a windows ME . so do you think i need some patcher ??? like u suggested the LvLord fpr the xp sp2.
please help ….. have beenn trying out all the tips but still no increase.
Haris, April 26, 2008:

Thanks a lot for sharing this huge list of uTorrent tweaks!
abinash, April 28, 2008:

thanks man it’s realy cool . I have been using utorrent from 2 months, but never experienced so much high speed download rate. AGAIN THANKS for this POST,GOD MAY HELP YOU!!!!!!!!
Neelesh, May 10, 2008:

THanks dude!You’re DA BOMB!
Setting the IP address in advanced preferences did the trick for me!Speed improved from 6 kBps to 20kBps for me! However, I used to get almost full 32kBps while using xp sp2.In vista download speeds are lower, both direct as well as torrents.Can you please provide some tips for that?
Ashish Mohta, May 10, 2008:

@Neelesh, Is there any internal restriction for Vista on Download Speed. Just check on that while I look around for more
Ashish Mohta, May 10, 2008:

Vannav, Its better to move to XP , I dont think you will get a very very high speed with ME WINDOWS
Ashish Mohta, May 10, 2008:

VIkas, It has to use the same settings what we mentioned here. How much download speed you are getting for now /?
Ashish Mohta, May 10, 2008:

@Jack: You dont seem to have any problem with configuraion. The problem seems to be in vista as one of the giy says the same thing.
Neelesh, May 10, 2008:

and the “net.max_halfopen at 200″ trick by dlguy has brought it up to 28kBps! its a good day today! would like to know more about those advanced “WARNING:DO NOT MODIFY! ” tweaks!
BiNko, May 18, 2008:

Thanks man! This might be getting old, but it still works!

With your tips, combined with some comments, I tripled my speed.

Thank you all, a lot!
Ashish Mohta, May 18, 2008:

Thanks for the feedback Binko,Can you tell us which comments helped you out. We will add them to our posts too.
Ankit Sharma, May 19, 2008:

I use Vista and Reliance connection of 300 kpbs and I used your Vista tip and restarted utorrent but it was to no avail as my speed was around 30-33 kbps and still is the same. Why is that?
Ankit Sharma, May 19, 2008:

Please tell me what’s wrong with my system or settings that there’s no impact on my speed.
brendan101, May 29, 2008:

its still slow with me it wont increase it took one kid 50mins but takes me 14hours minnium.
Payam, June 2, 2008:

Hi.

my internet connection is 40kbs (dialup) !! & i only get an average download rate of 4KBps. it is too low!!!!!!!

how can i increase download speed or increase connectin speed.

thanks.
Luminos, June 8, 2008:

lol my torrent downloading speed jumped from 107 to 645 ^_^
neboweb, June 11, 2008:

Thanks a lot for the tips. I use uTorrent fairly often, and I will definitely check out some of these tweaks.

Keep up the good work!
Kuchiki Sakura, June 14, 2008:

Thanks for the tips! I had been having trouble with utorrent but thanks to you I am able to download now (and upload, of course).
Although my download speeds are nowhere near those mentioned above.
I have a question though, as I could not find answers in portforwarding.com

I have a Realtek router (which is not included in the list) and my internet connection does not allow me to have a static IP, is there any way to go around this so that I could have the speeds like those mentioned above?
So far, the fastest I’ve gone is 30kb/s (but that was before I reformatted my computer, now it only goes as far as 5kb/s with 2 seeds and peers).

Thanks for any help in advance!
Thiwanka, June 23, 2008:

I followed your instructions to speed up my utorrent. I have an internet connection which has 128 Kbps upload speed. it didn’t work and the other thing is i have a modem. So please help me to increase my download speed in utorrent if it is possible. i hope you will be able to figure the problem out!!

Thanks!
alex, June 24, 2008:

help help !!!!!

i have the connection adsl 256kb/s…..

and my download speed of my utorrent is just 15-20)kb/s…

i have heard frm many that speed of downloading is 50-60)kb/s

i have done all the tips ….. that is provided … but it is unsolved….
and i am using the modem (tp-link), does it differ on the modem…
plz help me ou t……………
sushil, June 24, 2008:

help help !!!!!

i have the connection adsl 256kb/s…..

and my download speed of my utorrent is just 15-20)kb/s…

i have heard frm many that speed of downloading is 50-60)kb/s

i have done all the tips ….. that is provided … but it is unsolved….
and i am using the modem (tp-link), does it differ on the modem…

also what is the maximum download speed of utorrent having connection 256kb/s.does it goes above 100 kb/s….
plz help me ou t……………
Dharmesh, June 24, 2008:

i am lucky
oswal, July 1, 2008:

i have done all the tips,patch, net.max half open number from 8 to 200 and still the max speed is 40-50 kb/s. windows xp.psp.2,zone alarm, symantec antivirus,dsl (512)k. the speed test is 419 kb/s down. 152 kb/s upload.low seed ,high seed torrent is the same result 40 -50 kb/s and lower .thanks in advance.
mark, July 2, 2008:

to oswal, and most of the others here, just because your download speed test shows a high speed, this doesn’t mean you can actually download at that speed. same goes for the upload speeds. also you have to remember that even though there are a lot of seeders the seeders may not be uploading that fast. another thing to take into account is the download speed you get from the torrent is based heavily on how the tracker sees your upload ratio and speed, if you don’t be a good leech and upload your speeds will suffer. last but not least, all you download on here is stolen anyways, so why gripe about free “pirated” software, music, games, and movies?
oswal, July 3, 2008:

thanks……..mark……..
karim, July 6, 2008:

dude i did all of that.. nothing happend
i have a and dsl 258mb witha linksys router.i did evrything here and all i get is 27kb/s !! and my friend has the same thing an dsl 258kb with no router and it max speed is 40kb/s
karim, July 6, 2008:

except for the Setting Up Ports part
abnil, July 8, 2008:

i am getting 1.0 kB to 1.2 kB speed while downloading (average speed) i am using broaband - tata plug to surf
oswal, July 17, 2008:

Ashish Mohta, any help?………..oswal.