
It is also best if you choose a port number above 10000 (the one used here is 39272).

Click the "Use Selected Settings" button at the bottom of the Speed guide window. Higher settings will not give you better speed, and may in fact make speeds worse. You will notice that the "Affected Settings" further down the page have adjusted to match your selected speed. The speed test results may not be spot-on so if there isn't a criteria that fits in exactly with your speed, choose the closest. Step 2 Setting uTorrent for your speedNow Go to Options > Speed Guide and select the listing closest to your upload speed result (rounding down as necessary). The value needed to proceed with the configuration is the upload speed (or upstream, or up-speed) expressed in kilobits per second (kbits, or kbs, kb/s) not kilobytes (kB, kbytes, etc). Perform the test a number of times and select a mid-value (not the highest or lowest). Visit a website like or and perform a speed test with all other Internet activity disabled.

So you will need to test your connection: Step 1 Testing your connection speedSince you will always be uploading at your maximum speed, torrent clients need to be configured according to maximum upload speed in order to avoid choking your connection.

How to configure uTorrent for maximum upload and download speed.This provides a short guideline on how you can configure uTorrent to squeeze the best performance from your Internet connection.
