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Speed up Utorrent dowloads

First of all you have to be practical, you cannot expect a very high download speed if you have a bad internet connection. If you have a good internet connection, say 512 kbps download and still you are getting 5 kBps download speed then you are in trouble. In s 512 kbps connection you should atleast get 60 kbps.

Download a torrent with lots of seeds and a good ratio which is indicated by a green colour in websites like mininova. Seeds means the people who are giving you or uploading the data from their computer which you are downloading. Good ratio means that the number of people who are uploading are more than the number of people who are downloading.

Set an upload limit on uTorrent. This probably is a myth, I saw many people telling that, so what the heck, just set an upload limit, say 10 kBps.

Switch off your firewall. Obviously a firewall will not allow a program like utorrent (not a spyware but is a medium for piracy) to upload data or download it, so it will stop it torrent from being downloaded and hence the torrent will show a red mark.

If you still want more speed, then you have to get a new connection from your isp.

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