Think about it-your ISP only supplies you with the amount of bandwidth you're paying for. don't have many torrents seeding and/or downloading at once.

The two very best things you can do to maximise your speeds are are:ġ. Running the setup wizard, which most clients and all good clients have will help but probably won't make a noticeable difference tbh. In general terms, with modern broadband connections, most clients perform perfectly well 'out-of-the-box' ie. In this menu, check every check-box except for 'Limit local peer bandwidth.' For the option reading 'Outgoing Protocol Encryption,' select 'Enabled.'Įnabling Outgoing Protocol Encryption is appropriate (but it has been obsolete for many years and won't really make any difference).ĭisabling bandwidth management will increase transfer speeds if your network is congested (at the expense of other bandwidth users, such as your siblings making Skype calls or playing online games etc.) It is a setting which tells uTorrent to automatically throttle it's own bandwidth usage when it detects increases in latency.

In the left panel, select the 'BitTorrent' option.

(Sep 09, 2015, 12:33 pm)Joker_TPB Wrote: Configure the 'BitTorrent' settings in the Preferences menu. Transfer rates from individual peers will never be affected and overall transfer rates from all peers combined will only be affected occasionally, and rarely noticeably. You won't be able to send/receive pieces to/from the relatively small subset of other peers who are also using routers (and not using VPNs) without a port forwarded. If you are using a router and not using a VPN and a port is not forwarded, the only thing which will be reduced will be the size of the set of peers you can potentially share pieces with. If you are using a VPN or not using a router (or your router doesn't support UPnP or you have forwarded a port manually) it achieves nothing at all.

It simply tells uTorrent to try using the UPnP protocol to instruct your router to forward a port automatically. That setting has nothing to do with your firewall, nothing to do with connecting directly to anyone (you never connect directly with anyone), nothing to do with seeders, and nothing to do with transfer rates. This will ensure that you are getting the best possible transfer rate for your file. This will allow uTorrent to bypass your firewall and connect directly to the seeders. (Sep 09, 2015, 12:33 pm)Joker_TPB Wrote: 'Enable UPnP port mapping.

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