Jon

Thanks, I'm really liking 1.4. It's good to see there is still a programer out there that can write clean and functional software.

The main point I was making is those things go outside the realm of µtorrent and speed problems. Which is what your Mini-guide is about.

Nice of you to take the time to write this, but there is a large chunk of it you should remove, as it has nothing to do with µtorrent or bittorrent or network etc... "The next thing I'm going to focus on is your BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). Yes, I can already hear the outcries of some people. Unfortunately, I've seen some pretty crappy BIOS releases that totally break down an otherwise perfectly working motherboard. If you're having all sorts of problems, sometimes a simple BIOS upgrade automagically fixes all of your problems. It really can save everyone many headaches. So, if you're on a Beta BIOS, or haven't updated your BIOS in a long time, now is the time to flash it to the latest version. Find out the exact make and model number of your motherboard and then Google the manufacturer of your motherboard to get your BIOS file. The usual warning applies here as well: back up all your important data and programs, because a failed BIOS upgrade can render your system inoperable! yikes Flashing a BIOS is equal to having an open-heart surgery done on your PC, so be very careful and follow all instructions to the letter (print it out if you can). When the flashing is in progress, don't even touch the keyboard, mouse, or anything else! Just leave them alone (let it do its thing) until you're advised to continue." Should not be telling people to upgrade their bios here in this forum as it's not a tech site or guide and jack and jill will be quite mad if they destroy their computer. "I'm also going to recommend setting your insane overclocks back to their default values. Personally I'm not a fan of overclocking, and regardless of what everyone else may have told you, overclocking stuff past their manufacturer's recommended specs will make some things work unstable, cause unexpected behaviour and/or shorten the lifespan of your hardware...believe me. So just set everything back to original factory clock speeds to rule out any (hidden) instabilities. smile" Yea it could possibly shorten the life of the component, but again doesn't really have anything to do with µtorrent, and if you are an overclocker and know what your doing you already know the risk and how to test for stability etc... More and more new middle of the road hardware is the same thing as the top of the line model, it's just been crippled. for example my Athlon XP 1700 is a crippled Athlon XP2500, and I've been running it as an Athlon XP 2600 for more then 2 years and in another year I'll replace it. So the fact that I might have shortend it's 20 year lifespan by a year or 2 doesn't matter, it will be old and slow junk long before it wears out. I've been overclocking since before it was called overclocking and I've never wore out (electro-migration) a cpu/videocard/motherboard, but I have had 2 bios flashes fail and I've been doing this professionally for 16 years. "Also, I want to make sure your hard disk is properly tuned to read/write bits & pieces of data as fast as possible too. I won't go into details, as this is not a technical guide, but let's just say that DMA (Direct Memory Access) speeds up your drive quite a bit, so you want to make sure it's set in that mode and not in PIO. Sometimes a drive will revert back to PIO mode if a certain amount of "corruptions" or failures have ocurred, usually around 5. It's important to keep checking the modes the drives are operating in from time to time. Anyway, the instructions are roughly as follows: Right-click My Computer ▶ Properties ▶ Hardware ▶ Device Manager ▶ IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers ▶ Primary IDE Channel ▶ Advanced Settings. Click on the drop-down menu and select DMA if available. Click OK. If you have more drives, set them to DMA as well. You may also want to do this for the Secondary IDE Channel. As a last step, defragment your hard disk regularly with Disk Defragmenter, since using BitTorrent generally will cause your hard disk to be fragmented more often." By default windows ME 2000 and XP uses dma and if it not using it there is larger problem and either need to replace the machine 4+ years old running out of date hardware and software (win98/ME), or they have a problem that they will probably need to get a tech to repair. And again this really doesn't have anything to with helping with download speed problems. As for the 10 bit = a byte I'll leave that alone even though its 8. I'm not knocking you or flaming or being mean, just pointing out things you might want to remove and the reasons why.