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<blockquote data-quote="sami_kalpika" data-source="post: 5490198" data-attributes="member: 134762"><p><strong>Readers' Suggestions for Improving Speed </strong></p><p></p><p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> The following tips were posted in the comments below and found to be useful for some readers. You can try them out too. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> </p> <ol style="margin-left: 20px"> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment1191" target="_blank">Jen says</a>: If Utorrent is really slow on Vista (on my computer everything was really slow... I.E, Outlook) try disabling IPv6. Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Centre. Click on view Status for your connection, then properties and uncheck Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) then OK it etc. I didn't need to restart Utorrent or do anything else. The download I was on jumped from 5k right up to 200.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment1192" target="_blank">Jen says</a>: Another one and it's really simple! I spent many an evening trying like hell to get my torrents to run faster and wasn't getting anywhere. a couple of weeks ago my ex was trying to download at 8pm and he was getting DL speeds like a 512 connection trouble is he's on an 8mb line. We couldn't figure it out and quite randomly whilst trying to figure it I checked the TOC for his ISP it turned out they restrict bandwidth at certain times, in his case 6pm to 9pm. Obviously I checked my ISP and mine is set 7pm to 10pm.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment1167" target="_blank">Geeman says</a>: I noticed drastic increased speed by increasing the disk cache size (Options > Preferences > Advanced > Disk Cache > Override automatic cache size > (set to higher number)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment82" target="_blank">Masterkio says</a>: Change the following in the Advanced tab of uTorrent preferences peer. disconnect_inactive_interval from 300 to 600. You should be able to get a little bit more speed by doing this.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><a href="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment7044" target="_blank">ColdBurn says</a>: Download only a single torrent at one time. At uTorrent > Options > Preferences > Bandwidth, set 'Global maximum number of connections' and 'Maximum number of connected peers per torrent' to 375.</li> </ol> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sami_kalpika, post: 5490198, member: 134762"] [B]Readers' Suggestions for Improving Speed [/B] [INDENT] The following tips were posted in the comments below and found to be useful for some readers. You can try them out too. [LIST=1] [*][URL="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment1191"]Jen says[/URL]: If Utorrent is really slow on Vista (on my computer everything was really slow... I.E, Outlook) try disabling IPv6. Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Centre. Click on view Status for your connection, then properties and uncheck Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) then OK it etc. I didn't need to restart Utorrent or do anything else. The download I was on jumped from 5k right up to 200. [*][URL="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment1192"]Jen says[/URL]: Another one and it's really simple! I spent many an evening trying like hell to get my torrents to run faster and wasn't getting anywhere. a couple of weeks ago my ex was trying to download at 8pm and he was getting DL speeds like a 512 connection trouble is he's on an 8mb line. We couldn't figure it out and quite randomly whilst trying to figure it I checked the TOC for his ISP it turned out they restrict bandwidth at certain times, in his case 6pm to 9pm. Obviously I checked my ISP and mine is set 7pm to 10pm. [*][URL="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment1167"]Geeman says[/URL]: I noticed drastic increased speed by increasing the disk cache size (Options > Preferences > Advanced > Disk Cache > Override automatic cache size > (set to higher number) [*][URL="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment82"]Masterkio says[/URL]: Change the following in the Advanced tab of uTorrent preferences peer. disconnect_inactive_interval from 300 to 600. You should be able to get a little bit more speed by doing this. [*][URL="http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/?cPageA#comment7044"]ColdBurn says[/URL]: Download only a single torrent at one time. At uTorrent > Options > Preferences > Bandwidth, set 'Global maximum number of connections' and 'Maximum number of connected peers per torrent' to 375. [/LIST] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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