How to Make uTorrent Faster?

uTorrent is a free peer-to-peer software that allows you to share movies, music, games and other types of files with other users. However, download speed depends on a number of factors. Here's how to change uTorrent settings to make it faster.

Steps

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   Open Options and then Preferences. From here, you must change the settings in the General, Downloads, Connection, BitTorrent and Queue tabs.
   
   

   
   

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      Change the User Interface Settings so uTorrent does the following:
      
      
      
      • Automatically check for software updates.
      • Ask you to confirm before any torrents are deleted.
      • Exit the program without displaying a confirmation dialog.
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      Enable the following functions. Put a tick next to the settings for System Tray that will make uTorrent do the following:
      
      
      
      • Always display the icon for the system tray.
      • Display notifications in the system tray as pop-up balloons.
      • Minimize the full-screen display to tray.
      • Open the tray icon with a single click.
      • Open uTorrent by clicking on the system tray.
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      Set the Display Options that will enable the following display features:
      
      
      
      • Display the progress bar graphics.
      • Hide the speed limitation in the status bar.
      • Alternate the background color for lists.
      • Block the display of uTorrent download speed in the title bar.
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      Select the following Windows Integration settings:
      
      
      
      • Press the button to associate uTorrent with torrent downloads.
      • Tick the box for checking association when uTorrent is opened.
      • Uncheck the box for starting uTorrent every time you open your computer's operating system.

   Downloads

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      Change download settings. Tell uTorrent to do the following when you add a torrent:
      
      
      
      • Automatically start downloading torrent files.
      • Open a window that shows the files that the torrent contains.
      • Open the uTorrent main screen.

   Connection

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      Assign the following actions to the Listening Port:
      
      
      
      • Use port 45682 for connections coming in.
      • Keep the same port instead of selecting a random port every time you start uTorrent.
      • Disable UPnP port mapping.
      • Prevent uTorrent from being blocked by your computer's firewall.

   BitTorrent

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      Make sure you have the following additional BitTorrent features selected:
      
      
      
      • DHT network should be enabled.
      • New torrents should also have DHT enabled.
      • Scrape information should be requested from the tracker.
      • Peer exchange should be enabled.
      • Blank IP or host name should be reported to the tracker.

   Queue

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      Enter the following settings for your queue:
      
      
      
   • No more than 10 active torrents being uploaded or downloaded at a time.
   • A maximum of 5 active torrents running at once.
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