Maximizing BitTorrent Speeds with uTorrent

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Maximizing BitTorrent Speeds with uTorrent (Guide / Tutorial)

Version 1.166 (Updated December 2010)

This article explains how to get up and running with utorrent Bit Torrent efficiently. It shows how to battle ISP's throttling bittorrent speed, optimize download speed and other ways to speed up utorrent and increase utorrent download speed.

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Introduction

This is a tutorial step by step guide on how to speed up uTorrent's configuration, a popular BitTorrent software.

What's BitTorrent? Well, let's put it this way - What are the options when you want to send a 4.3GB DVD folder to your family, relatives and friends? Rapidshare? Megaupload? Or <gulp>... MSN? Free media file hosts have some limits either in the maximum data you can download per day, or the constant nagging to buy their premium service. And MSN is not designed for sending such large files - just imagine if the file stalled at the 97% mark - You will need to resend the entire file! MSN's Shared Folders had some promise but it was later replaced by SkyDrive, which limits each file to 50MB, although it gives 25GB of space.

So what other alternative is there? There's FTP. Or you can take a risk and send it via MSN. Or you can split the file in segments and upload it to a SkyDrive, RapidShare, MegaUpload or other file hosting server.

If you have a web hosting server, you can upload it to there. But chances are your web host will not be too happy about it as their terms of service do not allow you to share resource intensive files. Except perhaps our web host, DreamHost - they offer a huge 50GB of space just for backups, along with their normal webspace so you can use it as a convenient file storage centre.

Enter Bittorrent - a very efficient peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol to share your files with anyone, anywhere. You can share files privately within only people you choose, or publicly with anyone on the Internet. The only requirement is a internet connection. With uTorrent, BitTorrent has never got easier.

This guide gets you up to maximum speed with BitTorrent using uTorrent and is great for beginners. It details all the steps from downloading to optimizing your utorrent and Windows settings. Many people have used and think they are running with optimized settings, even then, it is advised to read through this guide and see what you may have missed to get the best configuration settings.

::: The Guide :::

Did you try some tricks ?

Which ones work ?

Have you others tricks ?

Share !

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PS: Just to remind that uTorrent has great support :

- FAQ (Multilingual)

- Documentation (Multilingual)

- µTorrent Help File (updated for the last version) (about GUI for exemple, there are the last icons)

[T0nyB]

Thanks for the heads up! :) Used this guide and my torrent download speeds have gone a lot faster. I, myself, use Torrentz.eu to search torrents and pick a lot of them for downloading (Usually btjunkie, Kickass Torrents, torcache and btmon, 1337x.org too, if it's available), that helps to get a lot of peers and seeders, thus giving me a faster torrent download.

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Thanks for the heads up! :) Used this guide and my torrent download speeds have gone a lot faster. I, myself, use Torrentz.eu to search torrents and pick a lot of them for downloading (Usually btjunkie, Kickass Torrents, torcache and btmon, 1337x.org too, if it's available), that helps to get a lot of peers and seeders, thus giving me a faster torrent download.

You are welcome.

Yes, Torrentz is a really usefull website ! B)

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