Name your settings

[TheGooseyOne]

Hey all you people out there getting great speeds with uTorrent, can you please post your settings here? Stuff like max connections allowed, port, upload cap, your connection speed, etc., etc. I really want to figure out this problem I'm having with utorrent and slow speeds, and if you can post your optimized settings it would be a great help. So get to it!

[chaosblade]

Im on a 1500/128 connection, my real rates are around 187kB/s download max, and 12kB/s max upload.

Just some random 40,000 something port.

I can get up to 160kB/s on very well seeded torrents (try openoffice.org torrents).

Upload Slots: 5

Peers per torrent: 50

Max connections: 200

Max active torrent: 1

max down torrent: 1

max up speed: 8kB/s

slow connect to peers: ON

low cpu mode: OFF

disk cache at default, 500kB/500ms.

[Ser2k2]

Well to be honest i didn't change anything, i have the default settings and with these settings i download with the max speed 26 to 24 kbps.

[TheGooseyOne]

does turning off low cpu mode raise speeds? and why do you have only 1 torrent at a time? you never seed?

also, does lowering peers that low, 50, really help? seems like more would mean faster...

[chaosblade]

Dunno, never saw a use to low cpu mode myself. it was default off until 1.1.6 so i dont know if i need it. only 1 torrent at a time because my connection cant handle alot of upload slots at once. I seed everything i download 1:1 always.

According to the official bittorrent protocol, having more then 50 peers on a torrent will be unlikely to help you at all in increasing speeds.

[Keloran]

512k/256k (cant wait till contract runs out)

port: 4687

no random/no UPnP

uploads per torrent: 5

peers per torrent: 50

max active torrents: 3

max downloads: 3

max connections: 200

schedule all on limit (light green)

upload: 15k

download: 40k

it never ever drops (except if torrents are new and dont have any good seeds)

[BlackLion]

does turning off low cpu mode raise speeds? and why do you have only 1 torrent at a time? you never seed?

also, does lowering peers that low, 50, really help? seems like more would mean faster...

Its not being connected to many many peers, its being connected to the right peers that does the trick. 50 is plenty, you can be connected to 100+ peers, check the peerlist and see how many you are actually getting data from. uTorrent cycles thru inactive peers very well. And one torrent can be a seed too

[nunpoom]

My connection: ADSL SBC Yahoo ISP

1536 Kbps (downstream)

384 Kbps (upstream)

uTorrent option: (1.1.6.1)

Random port on starts , Enable UPnP

max dl global: Unlimited

: Used NetLimiter global cap @ 150kb/s (actual max @ 155kb/s)

max ul global: Unlimited

: Used NetLimiter global cap @ 25kb/s (actal max @ 30kb/s)

Max actives torrents : 4 , Max download torrents: 2

Seeding priority: 'any' of 0 Share ratio, number of seed less than 1, total seeding time less than 90 mins, time since started torrent ignore.

Non-prioritized torrent: 0 (stop torrent)

Everything else is on default setting.

[Ankmin]

512k/256k (cant wait till contract runs out)

port: 4687

no random/no UPnP

uploads per torrent: 5

peers per torrent: 50

max active torrents: 3

max downloads: 3

max connections: 200

schedule all on limit (light green)

upload: 15k

download: 40k

it never ever drops (except if torrents are new and dont have any good seeds)

I have same connection, so having 5 uploads per torrent actually makes a difference, I have it on default 4 , seems fine.

[Sidewayz]

Im on Cable (max 10Mb (megabit) down, only 128Kb up),

Port forwarded thru router (gigabit LAN),

Settings:

Net:

Port: 60000 (unused and rarely monitored port)

randomize off

UPnP off

Max up: 8K (cant go higher without saturating upstream 2 * 5 = 10K which caps at 8)

Max down: 0 ( Unlimited )

no binding

Torrent options:

Glob Max Conn: 1000

Max number peers/torrent: 200 ( 200 * 5 = 1000 total )

num UL slots/torrent: 2

add slots off

max active torrents: 5

max downloads: 5

scraping on

pre-allocate on

adv:

net.low cpu false

bit.slow connect false

diskio.flush files true

diskio.write size 2000

thats it ...

on popular downloads (with more than 100 seeds and about 50 leechers) i can get a steady 200 - 300 KB (note this is kilobytes now)...

on less popular ones (fewer than 10 seeds) i get around 20 - 30KB depending on the host connection...

i can crank up a single download aswell by changing the "max peers/torrent" parameter to 1000 and only have a single download running... on those occasions when there are loads of seeds it tops out at around 900KB (yes kilobytes... mainly in linux distro's)...

but i think utorrent is great ... ive tried them all but the features on this are too hard to ignore... nice work

cheers

Sidewayz

edit: spelling

[silverfire]

I'm on UC Davis ResNet which I have no idea how fast it goes. (Aside from "really damn fast")

Manual port forwarding on port 16880 through a wireless router, which is DMZ'ed through a wired router.

Max global upload speed: 250KB/s

Max global connections: 300

Max torrent connections: 100

Max torrent upload slots: 20 (90% slot increase enabled)

Active torrents: 10/5 DL

Scraping: enabled

Pre-allocate: enabled

Seeding until 300%, then stop

Flush files = true

diskio.delay = 5000

diskio.write_queue_size = 8000

diskio.use_partfile = true

[ScubaSteve]

1024/256 connection

Port = 11483

No Random

No uPnP

Global Max Up = 25kB/s

Global Max Down = 120kB/s

Global Max Connections = 250

Max Connections peers per torrent = 50

Upload Slots = 5

Max Active Torrents (up or down) = 10

Max Active Downloads = 5

[blu_rav3]

Max DL: 512kbps

Max UL: 44kbps :'(

Port = 11483

No randoms

No uPnP

Global Max Up = 25 when limited

Global Max Down = 100 when limited

Global Max Connections = 10000 (I dont see why you should set limits...)

Max Connections peers per torrent = 10000 (See above)

Upload Slots = 4

Max Active Torrents (up or down) = 100

Max Active Downloads = 20

Schedule: Limited before and after school, and weekends.

[hace]

I'm on UC Davis ResNet which I have no idea how fast it goes. (Aside from "really damn fast")

Manual port forwarding on port 16880 through a wireless router, which is DMZ'ed through a wired router.

Max global upload speed: 250KB/s

Max global connections: 300

Max torrent connections: 100

Max torrent upload slots: 20 (90% slot increase enabled)

Active torrents: 10/5 DL

Scraping: enabled

Pre-allocate: enabled

Seeding until 300%, then stop

Flush files = true

diskio.delay = 5000

diskio.write_queue_size = 8000

diskio.use_partfile = true

Do you really get better speed with that high disk delay and queue size, according to standard settings???

[BlackLion]

I'm on UC Davis ResNet which I have no idea how fast it goes. (Aside from "really damn fast")

Manual port forwarding on port 16880 through a wireless router, which is DMZ'ed through a wired router.

Max global upload speed: 250KB/s

Max global connections: 300

Max torrent connections: 100

Max torrent upload slots: 20 (90% slot increase enabled)

Active torrents: 10/5 DL

Scraping: enabled

Pre-allocate: enabled

Seeding until 300%, then stop

Flush files = true

diskio.delay = 5000

diskio.write_queue_size = 8000

diskio.use_partfile = true

Do you really get better speed with that high disk delay and queue size, according to standard settings???

Its not the queue size, if he got RAM thats no prob, i have at times used sizes like that in experiments, its the delay...Vurlix recommends that should be left at default. And that is 10 times default.