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• links for 2007-03-11 | ITsVISTA // Mar 11, 2007 at 9:18 pm

  […] Solution for incredibly slow uTorrent and Vista If you use uTorrent, this one may help you out. (tags: Software) […]

• Fox // Mar 13, 2007 at 6:14 am

  how to change it in azureus please help

• chiller // Mar 14, 2007 at 12:17 pm

  not working for me, however im on a network… Ive been messing around with some other settings and I have some what of a speed increase, hope this helps others (I will also keep you updated if i can tweak more speed outa it cus im still not happy.
  Windows Network Settings:
  de-activated IP-v6 (im not using wireless so I dont need it. + v4 is easyer to note down.
  de-activated Qos Packet Scheduler (this gave a boost of speed)

  uTorrent Settings:
  Options -> Preferences -> Advanced
  I left the net.bind_ip alone and edited the net.outgoing_ip and changed this to my default gateway address. also turned off UPnP port mapping. enabled the DHT stuff and turned on the protocol Encryption

• visitor // Mar 15, 2007 at 2:23 pm

  yes, utorrent is hvaing issues with vista at the moment. the developers and working on it, offical and proper support for vista will come in version 1.7. This has ben confrimed in the forums.

  The main reason why vista screws up utorrent is because the current 1.6 uT has no support for IPv6.

  THE ABOVE PROBLEMS WILL BE CORRECTED IN 1.7 DONT WORRY.

• Calugaru // Mar 17, 2007 at 8:51 pm

  Thanx man, this reallt helped. Now I can go back to the ol’ uTorrent. Bless your heart

• nyiddle // Mar 22, 2007 at 7:31 am

  Both your and Chiller’s help in combination only slightly fixed the problem. I was getting like 7kb/s and below, and having trouble finding seeds (as you said).
  Doing what was said only barely fixed the problems as I’ve gotten up to 20kb/s (and NO higher mind you).

  It’s kinda bugging the shit outta me, but I’m praying that 1.7 will release too.

  Also, this in breaking news! Just got up to 31kb/s. I know it should be faster though, I have 7 seeds and 68 peers on this dl.

• jolly roger // Mar 27, 2007 at 8:06 am

  thanks, its starting to work for me!

• kieran // Mar 27, 2007 at 9:56 pm

  thanks man.

  i think its working for me.
  im at least connecting to seeds now.
  still at shitty speeds of aorund 5k, but i only changed it about 2 mins ago.

• Me // Mar 28, 2007 at 10:25 am

  Also try disabling ipv6 for your NIC. Helped me.. or just uninstal it (Run - uninstal ipv6)

• Fishy // Apr 20, 2007 at 4:48 am

  wahh!! thank you so much!!
  i’m actually getting a download speed now!
  i prefer azureus but i’ll put up with utorrent… another reason to dislike vista….

• Marl // Apr 24, 2007 at 7:26 am

  just finished changing it.. hope it works.. thanks!

• Tom // Apr 24, 2007 at 1:06 pm

  Does anyone else find that any torrent client, utorrent, bitcomet, azuruas, will make your internet connection crash if you try to use Firefox at the same time?

  any fixes for this?

• Blair // Apr 24, 2007 at 4:30 pm

  Im having the same problem as Tom. Every time i start ANY torrent client firefox and IE stop connecting to websites, and then work fine when i close the torrent client. I also cant even see any peers/seeds!

• Blair // Apr 24, 2007 at 4:32 pm

  I found a working solution on this site:

  http://torrentfreak.com/optimize-vista-for-bittorrent-emule-p2ptv/

• TomIII // Apr 26, 2007 at 8:53 am

  anyone know if port forwarding helps?

• Tom // Apr 26, 2007 at 10:29 pm

  Blair, i was wondering if you would be so kind as to email me, or add me to msn, to help me trough this. I cannot seem to get this to work….

  x205@hotmail.com

  thanks

• Tom // Apr 26, 2007 at 10:44 pm

  Hey Blair, thanks.

  but i cant seem to get that to work, any way you could email me or add me to MSN to help talk me through it?

  x205@hotmail.com

  Thanks

• UnDiSpUtEd // May 10, 2007 at 1:28 am

  I had the same problem of all you have, and now i’m happy because i just get the µTorrent 1.7 beta build 1703 and all it’s better than ever, my status icon that was always RED in the past now just turned GREEN, speed it’s really fast the same as used to work on Windows XP.

  here is the link from the offial page

  http://www.utorrent.com/download.php

• John // Jun 4, 2007 at 2:19 pm

  I don’t know what all the cause for concern is here, really. I’m on a private wireless network with WPA. I set a static IP, set net.outgoing_ip to my default gateway, and I’m getting better results than I ever got on XP. I’m using 1.6 standalone.

• luk // Jun 9, 2007 at 7:41 pm

  it worked for me …
  1. net.bind_ip’. Set this to the IP address
  2. turned off UPnP

  result from 20Kb –> 92kb

• yrpqltekbm // Jun 19, 2007 at 11:18 am

  Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! szgoffahtok

• 23423 // Jul 9, 2007 at 6:36 pm

  Great tip! The tip seems to work for uTorrent on XP pro. Now I can connect to seeds quicker.

• Mitch // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:50 am

  thx for that, its been driving me nuts…now i just need people to seed 4 me…lol

• paul // Aug 9, 2007 at 6:58 am

  iv just tryed to download sum tunes. wots goin on it wont work

• Rix // Aug 23, 2007 at 3:39 am

  Chiller ur advice on utorrent worked really really well i was wonder does ne1 knw how to make AZUREUS work faster on vista plz thank u

• Marc // Aug 31, 2007 at 12:45 am

  thanx. the comments on here (apart from blairs) are really good

• HCK // Sep 16, 2007 at 3:11 pm

  What to do i fi have a dynamic IP????

• razgriz93 // Sep 17, 2007 at 10:32 pm

  What version of are u guys using?? If u r having slow speeds u may want to try updating your software through your softwares website,

• Jess // Sep 19, 2007 at 6:54 pm

  Question. Is this to the regular IP address or the static IP?

• Michael // Sep 25, 2007 at 12:37 pm

  i have been doin wat ive read, forwarded my port, allowed utorrent on pc cillin, static ip address and changed the advanced settings stuff. Using vista and still get slow dls and my port still isnt forwarded?

  What can i do?

• Dominus // Oct 10, 2007 at 4:08 pm

  Thanks dude.
  I don’t know if it’ll change my speed, but at last the port forward checking is showing me a green light!

• Rob // Oct 16, 2007 at 9:38 pm

  Man, my problem with Vista is that my whole computer slows down like a mother when I run utorrent. Forget browsing the web… ie, firefox opera or whatever. I can’t even fire up programs like itunes whilst utorrent is running… even after I close it. The only solution is to restart my computer when I wanna go use the web.

  As concerns downloading itself I find that it takes ages to get started. Right now there are 9085 seeds and 18040 peers and I’m 0 on both. Once I get started it’s okay, I can normally get up to about 125 but it’s so slow getting started.

• Philip // Oct 17, 2007 at 4:55 am

  vista and torrents just dont work together. vista is not done yet and therefor whatever you do will only increase the speed a tiny bit. i have been messing around with torrents and vista for months and the highest speed ive gotten to is 100 kb/s, which is usually only on small files. games and other large programs only reach to about 40 kb/s if im lucky..

  a solution to your problems with vista torrents, is to first of all get ultimate, if you have home premium or business thats one reason for it being slow. another solution is download hotfixes for vista, which will later be in sp 1. here is the site –> http://www.vistasp1.net/forums/index.php?s=7225caf7f58be804a45b7da2c9ee51ed&showforum=2

• Philip // Oct 17, 2007 at 5:08 am

  oh and i forgot, here is another solution. read carefully and it should work.

  http://itsvista.com/2007/01/itsvista-tip-24-speed-up-threaded-network-downloads-in-vista/

  hope i was any help

• Jason // Oct 28, 2007 at 8:10 pm

  Philip, that last site you gave, I followed the instructions and nothing. I really hate Vista cause with my old laptop, XP ran great on it. Anyway, I can’t even install XP on this laptop as it’s got a Sata harddrive and I don’t think it’ll even find the partition (unless I do something, which I have to research). Then, there are no XP drivers for my Gateway MT6707. They’re all Vista.

• pheek // Nov 6, 2007 at 2:59 am

  I’m using u torrent on a network and it seem to slow down the entire network. The speed of the internet picks up when i turn it off. I’m running XP on the network. Any Help?

• Donna // Nov 7, 2007 at 1:20 pm

  I get the little red exclamtion mark down on the bottom near the middle saying that I have a firewall or router blocking.. I have both my vista firewall and mcafee firewall turned off.. how can I find out what else is running a firewall? and get it to change.. right now I can’t download anything beyong 5kbps

• TeJ // Nov 9, 2007 at 2:55 am

  hey chiller, thanks for the info! it helped alot!

• Primus // Dec 6, 2007 at 9:24 am

  I have utorrent 1.7.5 and am still getting slow speeds with vista. Tried just about everything and cant get speeds to increase.

  My problem is the incoming connections seems limited if any. The network status is green but when i test to see if the port is forwarded properly it says its not for some reason. (even though it is)

  Dont really know what to do now, havent tried messing with registry stuff and dont really plan too since this should be fixed.

• Philip // Dec 14, 2007 at 4:42 am

  were all having the same problem so its obviously vista it self. lets just wait for sp1 and see if the problem fades away

• Philip // Dec 17, 2007 at 6:54 am

  Your all going to be very happy now :D. i found a fix for Utorrent that allowed my seeders and download speed to increase a lot. this is what you do.
  Options>Preferences>Advanced> net.max_halfopen. (change the number to a higher number like 200 or 500 and your downloads should increase surprisingly a lot)

  Hope it works as good for all of u like it did for me!

• deanouk123 // Jan 10, 2008 at 4:56 am

  had no luck with any of this if someone can email me please deanouk123@yahoo.co.uk

• ianuk25 // Jan 19, 2008 at 1:09 am

  Same problem here… realy slow torrents. Could it be that microsoft is trying to kill torrents? sp1 will tell.

• N // Jan 19, 2008 at 2:42 am

  Im using vista but i dont know how to set up ‘net.bind_ip’ to the IP address of my computer. Can anybody teach in detail?

• Biro // Jan 20, 2008 at 8:37 pm

  The best way is : Get Virtual PC (I’m using VPC 2007) in Vista, on VPC install Xp, select right network connection and install utorrent. It works phenomenal and Internet connection in Vista works phenomenal without delays, and you dont have to set any advance options or something else. When utorrent works on full download mode, I’m browsing in Vista like I have another Int. provider. For me, it works (dl: 1343 kb/s, ul: 124 kb/s)!!!!! Really, try it.

• Biro // Jan 20, 2008 at 8:48 pm

  I forgot. I had the same problem like you have, and I did this, and now it works fine now.

  Hope I was any help

• N // Jan 23, 2008 at 6:01 am

  Whats the meaning of “( )”i have many seeders but its only inside the bracket. the out side ones is very little. can anyone help me?

• Biro // Jan 23, 2008 at 6:20 pm

  in side - (All seeders) … out side - active seeders

• ghosthunter // Jan 27, 2008 at 7:49 am

  thanks biro
  i was wondering what all that was about “()” lol
  also i’m running vista & have only had utorrent for over a month but i have to say, speed varies ALOT, sometimes its 0.5 & only hovers below 10- OR i can get 150-288kb/s at other times!!
  it does my head in waiting hours for a download but i guess i’ll get used to it

• Shgs // Jan 30, 2008 at 1:23 am

  Heya, I discovered that dl speeds go down when you start web browser, firefox or such. To get at full speed you have to start utorrent at first and not use web brosers while you are downloading with utorrent.

  Tested it and worked on my comp!

• kill_me // Feb 11, 2008 at 3:26 pm

  thnx 2 u..
  i know can download movie smoothly..

• heymanbrb // Feb 22, 2008 at 11:06 am

  ur my hero lol

• scoennie // Feb 23, 2008 at 4:53 am

  Thanx, working for me. Having Vista and uTorrent 1.7.7. Lots of seeds and over 100 kB/s!!! Tried a lot of other solutions found in forums but this one finally works.

  Thanx again

• Derek // Feb 25, 2008 at 6:22 pm

  i have utorrent 1.7.7 and vista im lost my download speeds sux it takes me 8 to 10 hours to download a movie if anyone can help plz email me

• Derek // Feb 25, 2008 at 6:24 pm

  my speed is around 20 25 what should i do i have dsl help plz Email me at derekwallace@windstream.net

• biro // Feb 27, 2008 at 8:16 pm

  … just like i said … try with VPC … No problem, no nothing …

  SCOENNIE … OK, you start uToorrent first. Then you try to browse in firefox or IE or something else. What happend? For me … “CRASH”

  Anybody using my solution?

• macaaroni // Mar 5, 2008 at 5:21 am

  I have the same problem (Slow torrents and no connection for Firefox if uTorrent is open). I applied the fix in the Advanced prefs of uTorrent (net.bind_ip to my IP) and got results of 0kbps to 90kbps, but I still never have a connection through Firefox during downloads. Any known solution for this?

• clucknorris // Mar 6, 2008 at 1:57 am

  a sadder bunch of noobs has never collected in such concentrated numbers.

• Torrente // Mar 31, 2008 at 12:18 am

  Setting net.bind f*ckd up my entire network and only restarting windows helped to restore

• suderz // Apr 4, 2008 at 9:27 am

  i have wireless internet and just got utorrent and its really slow i read the alread writen solutions but common guys i dont wanna change 05 things and get little or no results so ooooooooo help me out here

• Mike // Apr 6, 2008 at 2:54 pm

  It worked for me.

• Travis // Apr 6, 2008 at 4:18 pm

  WORKED THANKS SO MUCH! wow just went from 35kb/s to 212kb/s

• bacteria // Apr 12, 2008 at 3:37 am

  how to increase UPLOAD speed on uTorrent 1.7.7 ?

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