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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sami_kalpika" data-source="post: 5490195" data-attributes="member: 134762">Further Tips You Can Try For Optimum Speed                 Pointers 3 - 7, 9 and 14 below have the potential to affect  your speeds **negatively**. Experiment.                   <ol style="margin-left: 20px"> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">There should be a green tick at the bottom, not a exclamation mark as below.                         <img src="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/images/redstatus.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />             Unconnectable situation                         If uTorrent keeps showing this even after 5 minutes, check the <a href="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/#port_forward" target="_blank">possible causes</a>.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">To get more peers, right-click the entry on the list, and click Update Tracker (disabled, grayed out and throttled in utorrent 1.8 - you need to wait for some time). Do this especially if you are on a private tracker before you exit the application, so that your ratio is maintained.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Setting a high upload can sometimes slow down a fast torrent. For example, in our ADSL connection, if I do upload at 10KB/s I can get up to 350KB/s. If I upload at 30KB/s, the download speed gets limited to 200KB/s. The total upload available to me is 60KB/s.                         This is where you have to experiment by setting a low upload rate (from 10 at Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > Maximum upload rate) and watching if the speeds increase for 5 minutes, especially if the torrent is heavily seeded.                         But remember, you must upload in order for peers to share their downloaded data with you. It is possible to set a very low upload, but the chance of peers sending you their data will decrease, pulling down your download speed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Some people have reported speed increases by setting the peer.lazy_bitfield setting to false in Options > Preferences > Advanced. However, in our case, it lowered the speeds.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Change the Options > Preferences > Bittorrent > Protocol Encryption to Forced. This will force encryption on all outgoing packets and will not fallback to un-encrypted mode if the peer refuses to co-operate. Good to connect to only encryption-enabled peers. Avoid doing this for torrents with low peers/seeds.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Remove the check for Options > Preferences > Bittorrent > Protocol Encryption > Allow Incoming Legacy Connections. This will make all your outgoing and incoming packets fully encrypted, except for tracker communications. Peers who are using a torrent software that doesn't support encryption are dropped. Avoid doing this for torrents with low peers/seeds.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Private trackers, especially those that specifically tell utorrent to disable DHT (effectively disabling Peer Exchange and Local Peer Discovery too), can affect speeds negatively. You can tell if the torrent is private by selecting the torrent and looking at the DHT value. If it says "disabled", it is a private torrent.             That said, the main reason private trackers exist is because they enforce sharing rules that tries to prevent a person from downloading a torrent and running off without uploading back the same amount of data he downloaded.             For new and popular torrents on such trackers, you may be able to get good speeds as everyone will be trying to increase their upload/download ratio. Again, experiment. The key point here is the seeds/leechers ratio and the popularity of them in public and private trackers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Check the Availability column for the torrent. If it is less than 1, chances are that the torrent is new and the original uploader is still uploading. However, if it remains at a value less than 1 (eg, 0.98) for more than a day, either the torrent does not have seeds or it is fake. (Thanks TTbarDJ)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Some people have reported speed increases using an older version of utorrent, specifically utorrent version 1.6. You can <a href="http://www.bootstrike.com/NO_DIRECT_LINK_Pls_XXV/articles/BittorrentGuide/uTorrent16.zip" target="_blank">download</a> it and try it instead.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Reset your internet connection by switching off and on the modem and router (if applicable).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Download the latest network driver, uninstall the current one and install back the latest network driver you downloaded by using Device Manager in Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Make sure you did not set a download limit accidentally! Many people unknowingly set the download limit when they actually intended to set the upload limit in the right-click menu of the tray icon. To check, Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > Maximum download rate > Set to "0" > OK</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Some people use software such as Peer Guardian or Protowall to 'protect' from spy computers. At last check, Peer Guardian blocks about 773,125,915 out of 4,294,967,296 possible IPv4 addresses. That is about 18% of the whole Internet World Wide Web! Which means lesser peers and that means lower speeds! For the protection it claims to offer, speed is a compromise.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Increase the number of connections in Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > Number of Connections. Experiment by increasing the number of global/max connections in steps of 25.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Windows Vista users! Disabling <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2006/05/05/Winhec-blog-tcpip-2.aspx" target="_blank">TCP/IP Auto Tuning</a> helped improve speeds for some people<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Click Start.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">In the box at the bottom, type CMD and do NOT press Enter. You should see CMD come up on the list  as shown below:                                 <img src="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/images/vista_cmd.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                 CMD shows when you type CMD in the box below</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">RIGHT-click the icon and click "Run As Administrator"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A "User Account Control" box should spring up. Click Continue</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Type this into the prompt:                  netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You should get a "Ok." response.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Restart your system.</li> </ol>           </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If you have a proxy server such as a local ISP one, using it has helped many people improve their speeds. Go to Options > Preferences > Connection. Under 'Proxy Server', select the Type as HTTP and specify your proxy and port. Check the box 'Use proxy server for peer-to-peer connections'. Press OK and restart uTorrent.</li> </ol>          Good luck! It all boils down to Experimenting.        </blockquote>

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