Utorrent, download and upload settings?

Question

Not really having a problem but just want to get some opinions here if my settings are good when seeding and downloading torrents in Utorrent.

I did a speedtest in speedtest.net and the results were the following.
Download speed 5.13 mb/s and upload .63 mb/s.
Now the settings for utorrent are auto, so I never really moved them at all. If I go to options > preferences > bandwidth: it shows
Maximum upload rate: 0
Maximum download rate 0
Global Maximum number of connections: 200
Maximum number of connected peers per torrent: 50
Maximum of upload slot per torrent 4

Again, I really don't have a problem with downloading and uploading, I just want to see if the current settings are normal and if not. How could I make it better. Because I noticed when I download it's always normal speed according to seeds. But when I upload it seems to take longer.

Answer 1

Do NOT set them as high as they will go; you WILL crash your router.



Your settings are fine as they are right now. If you want though, you could increase the number of upload slots to about 6. If you connect to a lot of people with slow downstream, and you're only uploading to 4 of them at once, you *may* not be able to saturate your upstream. Setting it to about 6 would resolve that, even when connected to the slowest of peers.



You can also safely increase the maximum number of connected peers a bit, but it's not necessary. With your connection, 50 peers is enough to saturate either your downstream or upstream when leeching or seeding, respectively. That is, unless the peers are severely throttled.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Just set them as high as you can.. then it will use the unlimited of what you can use.. make sure you have set the proper IP address as well. that helps a lot.. and if you can do port forwarding, open a port and use that. then you have really fast torrent downloads.