How to Speed Up uTorrent Downloads (100% Working)

Boost Up Torrent Download Speed with uTorrent

If you’re one of those who download torrent files using uTorrent, you might be aware of how bandwidth speeds get slow. But, that’s also the fact that not one but many reasons involve which deters the torrenting performance.

Furthermore, if you already have a good internet speed, then here are some of the tips which can help boost overall Torrenting speed to give better uTorrent download experience.

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Download Torrents who have a High Number of Seeders

Once you start downloading Torrent files, the uTorrent client picks a small portion of files from several computers, who are known as seeders, who share files even when the downloading is completed.

One of the ways is to boost download speed is to go for a torrent file which has a higher number of seeders, but at the same time do look at the comments given by other users. As that opinion may help you know about the file, whether it contains any virus/malware or safe to download.

Configuration of “Bandwidth” Settings for Boosting Speed

Changing the bandwidth settings of uTorrent is one another way which can help you boost the download speeds. Follow the below steps:

On the Top left corner click “Options” tab
Select “Preferences“
Locate and select tab marked “Bandwidth.”
Now, change the values of each field to limit the global upload and download rate

Note: It’s recommended to keep Global Upload Rate as 80% of the upload speed means 14 KB/S and change the value to “0” for the Global Download Rate.

One another simple way to boost uTorrent download speed is to make a change in the number of connections to avoid any overloading. For many users, below settings works perfectly well.

Change the global maximum number of connections to 2300
Change the maximum number of connected peers per torrent to 50
Change the number of upload slots per torrent to 14

Speed Up Torrent Downloads by Directly Connecting to the Seeds

Many times, the firewall settings of the seeders hinder the seeding process, which prevents uTorrent from downloading data through the Torrent file.

Now, to make a change or reconfigure firewall settings of all the seeders is not possible, but uTorrent client offers the option to retrieve all the data directly without messing around with firewalls. Below are the steps for the same:

Select the “Options” menu and go to “Preferences“.
From the left tab, open “Connections“.
Checkmark “Enable UPnP Port Mapping“.
Checkmark “Enable NAT-PMP Port Mapping“.

Select uTorrent Option “Add Windows Firewall exception”

Many times, it happens that Windows Firewall blocks the torrent client which interrupts downloading and seeders coming from the BitTorrent connections, ultimately hindering the entire torrenting process.

To overcome such situation, in the uTorrent application, select the option “Add Windows Firewall exception“. Simply, go to Options >Preferences > Connections.

Add additional trackers to get more torrent speed

Trackers are one of the useful ways to optimize and boost download speeds of torrent files. Adding additional trackers won’t do any harm, but eventually, it will help in improving the torrenting experience of the users, as they add more seeds/peers into the ongoing connection.

Lastly, in this process, users add new links under the existing trackers of a specific torrent file. Below are the step-by-step instructions for the same: