Comments on: Guide to downloading torrents & uTorrent speed tips

By: blacknoise

blacknoise — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:15:39 +0000

yes peerguardian blocks several websites/organizations involved in anti-piracy as level 1(p2p) or level 2 blocklists include them. To stop this from happening use “Allow HTTP” in peerguardian.

By: Coulon Michel

Coulon Michel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:36:39 +0000

Merci beaucoup, all these tips speed up my torrent downloading from 330 ko/s to 995 kilobytes per second today. But I have problems with PeerGuardian, some web sites do not display …

By: PC

PC — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:54:13 +0000

Does anybody know how to restore the default settings? The suggestions did not work for me

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:34:12 +0000

@DigDeep:
trust me dude that does not work very well, many firewall apps block it, as its a malicious attempts. U just think it works but it doesn’t.

and your trick might work on XP, but XP is due to extinction.

By: DigDeep

DigDeep — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:54:35 +0000

By the way this is not good at all

increase the Net.max_Halfopen Connections to 50-60 in uTorrent Advanced configaration panel.

It will slow down your browsing a lot. Its better to set it to 4 if you experiencing slow browsing.

Port is even better to be over 60 000
DHT is no good for private trackers, coz then upload does not count properly, its going behind the tracker.

By: blessy

blessy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:36:49 +0000

thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

By: blessy

blessy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:26:46 +0000

i dint understood half of the tip but thanks budy next time make clear with pictures ok bye mama

By: theWizard

theWizard — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:17:35 +0000

@bendis: I NEVER REGISTERED ANY PORTS WITH ANYTHING, Hey man these are local ports in ur pc, u don't need to or have to register with anybody to use the local ports found on ur PC. This is an INCOMING port which gives good speeds (there may be others, but this works fine for me, so I thought to share).

By: bendis

bendis — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:22:49 +0000

I have a question about the uTorrent config tip #1 “Set the Incoming port to higher than 45000, I have found that 47532 is a nice selection.”

The port 47532… do you have to register with IANA for that?
I went to look at some (other) port number I could use and first thing I’ve read was (sorry for the long quote):

“The port numbers are divided into three ranges: the Well Known Ports, the Registered Ports, and the Dynamic and/or Private Ports.

The Well Known Ports are those from 0 through 1023.

DCCP Well Known ports SHOULD NOT be used without IANA registration.
The registration procedure is defined in [RFC4340], Section 19.9.

The Registered Ports are those from 1024 through 49151

DCCP Registered ports SHOULD NOT be used without IANA registration.
The registration procedure is defined in [RFC4340], Section 19.9.

The Dynamic and/or Private Ports are those from 49152 through 65535

A value of 0 in the port numbers registry below indicates that no port
has been allocated.”

This was on http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
Frankly, I don’t quite understand why one should have to “register” the use of their own computer’s port with some organization… I find this utterly confusing…
Can you shed some light on this, please?

By: Sina704

Sina704 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:03:42 +0000

Thanks so much, all these tips helped speed up my torrent downloading by 100 kilobytes per second. Thanks for all your speed tips and other great articles DotNetWizard! Keep Up the great work