set utorrent for maximum speed/low priority?

[salo99]

Hi, is there any way to set utorrent so that it will operate at maximum speeds unless I'm browsing or doing anything requiring bandwith? In other words, to make it throttle itself if bandwith is needed elsewhere?

[Switeck]

2nd link in my signature...and run v2.0 or v2.0.1

uTP peers/seeds coupled with Bandwidth Management should manage to keep lag low.

[asmittal]

Hi, I am having the exact query, I want utorrent to stop or at-least slow down when i am surfing. On checking the second link I couldn't find anything very helpful. Its a long chain so may be i missed out something. Can you please specify how to achieve this.

[lithopsian]

It should happen more or less automatically. That is what uTP is all about. So if you have version 2.something, set the options as indicated and you should be good to go. There are advanced options for unsual situations but you shouldn't need them.

[Switeck]

It can throttle back more cleanly if it doesn't have >100 connections.

30-50 may be enough.

While seeding, there's almost no value having many connections at all per torrent.

If upload slots are 4, even 10 total peers is plenty. (per torrent)

[GTHK]

I find uTP can only really do its job of slowing down when you do something else if you disable TCP, which means no connecting to a chunk of the swarm.