Help for a uTorrent noob

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I'm new to uTorrent and I'm getting very slow speeds while using it. When I first launched uTorrent it said I needed to forward the 33377 port so I did that. I forwarded the ports on the router although whenever I check it tells me they're not forwarded correctly. So I'm guessing I didn't forward the ports correctly :p - I looked at www.portforward.com. When I go to http://whatismyip.com/ it is different to what my IP is in the command prompt. What one should I use to set up the static IP correctly before I forward the ports :confused:

In the command prompt I get only one DNS server address, although the static IP address tutorial says I should get 2... :confused:

I picked a download with a high amount of seeds/leechers as well.

Maybe I just need to change some things in the uTorrent settings? I'm all a bit clueless with this, so if someone could offer some help that would be great. :)
 
If you're maximum download speed is say 200 KBps

Set your download max to 300 KBps
Set your upload max to 6 KBps

5 or lower will restrict your download speed
 
the ip from ipconfig is what you want

whatismyip shows the external ip, you want the internal one



which router do you have?
best off taking a screenshot of your ipconfig screen, then manually changing the ip address on the pc, so it always uses that, then forward the port to it

perhaps try a higher port too, i usually use ones in the 5xxxx region

set upload to 10 ish and it won't distrupt browsing

or more obviously if you need it
 
uTorrent shows a littlel green light at the bottom of the window if your network connection is working properley. You can also test the port forwarding in options somewhere.

As bledd says, use ipconfig for your local ip address, it'll probably be something like 192.168.0.2 and forward the port number to this ip in your router config. You'll also need to open the ports in any software firewall you have running (eg Windows Firewall).
 
Ok, got the port forwarding set up fine now. The little green light is showing at the bottom on the uTorrent window (it wasn't before). I've set the upload speed to 10kb/s and the download speed to 550kb/s (my normal download speed not on uTorrent peaks at around 450kb/s).

It says
Seeds: 22 (132)
Peers: 60 (842)

Is that good? Although I'm still averaging 30kb/s. :(
 
ISPs throttle P2P traffic

so you can download a file from a website at full speed
but torrent traffic can be 30kbps

i have this
 
Oh, so there's not much you can do about this apart from download at certain times of the day to get peak speeds?
 
you can get around SOME isps by encrypting torrent traffic, but most have wised up to this... so yeah, off-peak downloading only!
 
trescodrucey said:
If you're maximum download speed is say 200 KBps

Set your download max to 300 KBps
Set your upload max to 6 KBps

5 or lower will restrict your download speed
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I would kiss you if you weren't a man. Even now i'm tempted!

I've never once heard that 5 KBs will limit the d/load speed and i've been crawling along for ages. Now i'm positively flying.

Thank you so much!
 
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