The only way I found so far to have a normal web surfing, while the uTorrent is on, is to limit its bandwidth usage.
There is a smarter way where the torrent can use the remaining bandwidth?
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The only way I found so far to have a normal web surfing, while the uTorrent is on, is to limit its bandwidth usage.
There is a smarter way where the torrent can use the remaining bandwidth?
Best Answer
1-Choose a good ISP
The bottleneck could be at your ISP's DSLAM / CMTS, and if your ISP doesn't handle congestion avoidance and traffic shaping properly, except changing or asking less from it, there's nothing you can do.
2-On your side
However, usually what's degrade the network performance is not the download bandwidth used alone (for a single connection, a large bandwidth usage is well handled natively by ISP, router, OS and other pieces of the network) but the number of concurrent connections used and/or bad allocation of your (limited) upload bandwidth
2.1-Your router is an essential piece of your network
So a modem/router that handle well many simultaneous connections and congestion could really help. My trust would go to linksys-cisco or netgear. But this link SmallNetBuilder.com Router Charts could be interesting
Additionally, you could get many advanced features (QoS, alternative congestion algorithm, iptable, ...) on some home routers with an alternative firmware: dd-wrt (supported routers list) (tomato and openwrt are popular alternative too, but they support less devices and are less user friendly).
Note: if your router have low spec (memory/cpu) don't be too greedy...
2.2-How to setup µTorrent
2.2.1-As it was said by Fishwalker, it's a good idea to start with the µTorrent speed guide. Additionally:Options
>Preferences
>Bandwidth
Options
>Preferences
>Advanced
>net.max_halfopen
2.3-Scheduling
As it was said by Pangea A simple trick but maybe the most effective way to deal with it: If you keep your computer running when you don't use it, or use it locally only, set µtorrent to download only at these times:
Options
>Preferences
>Scheduler
2.4-Sources, trackers & seedbox
If you find sources that have a good upload bandwidth you could use less simultaneous sources/connections and however achieve a good speed:2.5-How to setup QoS
As it was also said by Pangea, QoS could be used on your side for traffic shaping. (only for outbound data)
An overview: What's QoS?
2.5.1-Usually QoS is set on the router to be beneficial to the entire network:You could just let µTorrent at the default priority and up the other connections...
But to create a QoS rule specifically for µTorrent on your home router, you must choose a port (outside of the well-know ports range, and outside of the 6881-6999 range to avoid limitations of some providers) so that µTorrent will be recognized by the router
Options
>Preferences
>Advanced
>net.outgoing_port
For more resources: QoS tutorial linksysinfo.org
2.5.2-To setup QoS on your computer:gpedit.msc
Computer Configuration (or User Configuration)
>Windows Settings
> right-clickPolicy-based QoS
, and then clickCreate new Policy
.For more resources - Microsoft Technet: Working with QoS policies / Policy-based Quality of Service (QoS) / Creating and Editing a QoS Policy / Advanced QoS Settings / Quality of Service / Policy-based QoS Architecture in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
2.6-Additional softwares that could help
I don't have used them myself, but I have read some good reviews about:
cFosSpeedCost $ 19.90
NetlimiterGrant is a feature in NetLimiter 2 (pro version only). It could seem similar to limits, but it works differently. When you set grant for application or connection, then it means that you grant specified bandwidth for it. If other application/connections take too much bandwidth, then it is taken from them and is given to application/connection with granted bandwidth.
Cost $ 29.95