Something fundamentally wrong in utorrent

[elvis56]

I'm sure there must be something fundamentally wrong with the utorrent client. Normally i use Bitcomet but because more and more sites are blocking Bitcomet i started looking for another client. utorrent has some nice features and is small so i decided to give it a try.

I set the settings in utorrent similar to Bitcomet(not using DHT) and tested with a few torrents. I was very disappointed by the speeds i got but i couldn't test those torrents with Bitcomet. Then i tried some other torrents, all well seeded(35+) and i always get good speeds from torrents from that site.

Again very slow speeds(like 10 KB/sec per torrent), 5 torrents in total so around 50 KB/sec total download speed. Then i tried the same set of torrents with Bitcomet and got 900 KB/sec. This was just a few minutes after trying with utorrent.

Then i visited the utorrent forums and found out many many people complaining about speed problems. I tried changing several settings in utorrent but nothing seemed to increase download speed.

Just to be complete i tried the ABC client and again i got good speeds(also around 900 KB/sec).

Firewall is properly configured, i have a 1MB/1MB fiber connection so that can't be the problem and as i said other clients get great download speeds.

I used utorrent version 1.3.1 Beta build 378

[1c3d0g]

Did you try Build 386? Many people are reporting an improvement in their speeds with that build... :|

[elvis56]

I will give that a try, update coming later today. I did try "check for update" from within the utorrent client but it doesn't seem to check for new beta versions.

[tqmAyT]

i was using beta 380 and downloading 1 torrent was an average of 'bout 35kB/s. stopped the download and opened beta 386 started the same torrent and now downloading average is 'bout 75kB/s. i changed nothing in any settings...just pushed the start butt-on

[chaosblade]

Do try the latest beta and report back.

Just a comment though: For every (usualy those who did NOT read the FAQ and did NOT try to configure uTorrent properly) person that reports speed issues there are about 5 of us who get perfect speeds. Just a thought. I hardly think anything in uTorrent is "fundamentally wrong". :]

[Firon]

99% of problems = settings settings setting

the last 1% was issues with BitComet sucking, which the latest beta takes care of

[lynx]

UPNP setting standard on in uTorrent fucks my speed up. UPNP off and uTorrent goes like a rocket !