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Since BitTorrent rewards people for uploading, the less torrents you run, the faster they will download. Running fewer torrents will guarantee that your connection can handle all the connections and requests properly. For users with a maximum upload speed of 256 kbit/sec, uTorrent suggests a maximum of 35 connections per torrent, and 60 in total.
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The uTorrent speed guide (Options > Speed Guide in uTorrent) automatically recommends the ideal settings. Too much connections can actually slow down your torrents, instead of increasing the download speed. Choose the correct maximum number of connections Your connection is a tube (sort of), if you max out the upload capacity, the tube gets clogged. Limiting your upload speed is by far the most important suggestion, and was also mention by Olivier Chalouhi in our previous BitTorrent speed guides.
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Today we continue our mission to help people get the most out of BitTorrent, by asking uTorrent developer Greg Hazel to give us his recommendations on how to optimize BitTorrent download speeds. A few weeks ago we asked Olivier Chalouhi, developer and CTO of Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) to share some of his BitTorrent speed tips with us. At TorrentFreak we have written quite a few speed guides, but we are not as knowledgeable as the people who work with BitTorrent clients daily.