Someone please guide me through the preferences

[JoeSmith]

Hello,

I've used uTorrent for a long time with the youtube settings, (which worked great for me...) but not I got a new computer, got a new uTorrent and I really don't know what to put in the preferences. Can someone please help, my download speeds are really slow.

I have Windows XP by the way.

The torrent i'm trying to download has 5895 seeds and 1916 seeds. From previous experience I think that this is a great toreent, so i figured it must be my uTorrent settings.

Any information you need from me, please ask. I'm used to my movies taking 10 minutes, now they take hours/days/weeks/years

speedtest.net :

ping : 40 ms

DL : 11.12 mb/s

UL : 1.97 mb/s

Please help me, I will be really grateful,

Joe Smith

[Switeck]

2nd link in my signature, 1.5 or 2 megabit/sec upload speed settings...or take the average values of the 2 for even closer.

They go the OPPOSITE direction than YouTube settings, because too many connections at once is *FAR* worse than slightly too few. And above 1 mbit/sec, they are hardly using "few" connections.

In advanced settings...pretty much do NOT mess with the settings there to "increase speed".

bt.connect_speed is outgoing NEW connection attempts per second...even setting that over 10 puts a bit of a drag on existing connections.

net.max_halfopen has historically been set to only 8 in-progress outgoing TCP connection attempts at once and worked just fine *IF* you're not firewalled in uTorrent.

Getting unfirewalled in uTorrent (get the green light at bottom) is a much greater speed improvement than increasing how fast you're making connections.