How to open ports on router for better torrent performance

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I've been using utorrent to download and upload torrents for a long time. Recently someone told me that I need to open port(s) for utorrent from my router settings for better downloading and uploading performance. Is it true? If yes, how can I do that?

My utorrent version: 2.0 and the port used for incoming connections: 61829. My router: Yaksu S200 ADSL router modem and I can reach its settings via web interface. I looked at the settings but they seem a bit complicated to me. Other info you may need to know: I have dynamic IP. I'm using Win7 x64.

Best Answer

I've also been using Utorrent for quite some time. I have never messed with Router settings and get some pretty fantastic download speeds.
One thing that is worth looking at is whether your ISP throttle torrenting. My ISP (BT) throttle torrents between 6pm and 12pm weekdays and most of the weekend. If you've recently started seeing problems this could be something to look at. One of the cool features in uTorrent 2.0 is the fact that it can be set to randomise the ports it uses on start up, this helps alleviate ISP torrent throttling.

If its something you want to do you would open the ports on the firewall of the router.

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