uTorrent

Once you have installed and set up uTorrent, you can start downloading with it.

1. Head to Google and search for the most popular torrent sites.
2. Choose a torrent site you want to visit and click on the link.
3. Once on the torrent website, you’ll be able to browse through all different torrent files available for download.
4. If you have anything specific in your mind, use the search feature most torrent sites have to find what you are looking for.
5. Once you find what you want to download, click on the “Get this torrent”, “Download”, or “Download torrent” (the label on the button varies). 
6. Go to the torrent file download location on your drive, open uTorrent, click the torrent file, and drag and drop it into uTorrent.

Besides dragging and dropping the torrent file into uTorrent, there are a couple of more ways to add a torrent to uTorrent: 

1. When downloading a torrent file from a torrent website, you can click on a magnet link (link with a small icon of a magnet).
    
2. You can also download the torrent file and instead of dragging it into uTorrent, simply double-click it.
    
3. You can add a torrent directly from the uTorrent app.

–  Click on “File > Add Torrent” and navigate to the directory where a torrent file is, select it, and click “Open”.

–  If you know the URL of a torrent file, you can skip downloading it and start the download directly by clicking on “File > Add torrent from URL…”.

To remove the ads in uTorrent, you need to open the uTorrent app, click “Options –> Preferences”.

It will open the “Preferences” windows.

Look for the “Advanced” in the left section of the window and click it.

In the left section of the window, look for the following and set the radio button to false for each one:

● gui.show_plus_upsell 
● offers.sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled
● offers.left_rail_offer_enabled
● gui.show_notorrents_node
● offers.content_offer_autoexec
● bt.enable_pulse

Click the “OK” button to save the changes, close the uTorrent client, and restart it.

It should run completely ad-free now.

Are you struggling to quickly download content from uTorrent?

Regardless of your internet connection and setup, there are still plenty of reasons why your download speeds may be lagging. If you can’t figure out why your speeds are so slow on the peer-to-peer download site, then check out the following situations, and determine if any apply to your account.

1. You Have Multiple Files Downloading
Downloading multiple files at once is a surefire way to kill your download speed. As you continue to add more downloads to the queue, your bandwidth will be forced to split between each file. The result is countless slow file downloads, rather than one fast or moderate download. If time is of the essence, download just one file at a time to ensure maximum speed.
 

2. You Have Bandwidth Allocated Equally to Each Download
If you don’t want to forgo downloading multiple files at once, you can simply choose which files receive the most bandwidth. If you would like a specific file to download quicker than others, then simply right-click on it, and choose the option “Bandwidth Allocation” from the toolbar. You’ll have three options to choose from, which are low, normal, and high allocation. The speed of the download will then speed up or slow down in relation to the speed of other downloads.

3. You’re Using a Wifi Connection 
Modern Wifi is way quicker than it was 10 years ago, but it is still nowhere near as fast as a wired connection. If you want to increase download speeds without doing anything super technical, then simply connect an ethernet cable from your device to your internet router.

4. Your Queue Settings are Set Too High
uTorrent allows you to enter an advanced menu to choose how many uploads or downloads can be active at the same time. However, allowing the program to download or upload a large number of torrents such as 10 at once splits the bandwidth between all files. As a result, all of the files take far longer than they would if they were the only file being downloaded. For the best results, click on the preferences pane, and select queuing. Then set the active number of file downloads or uploads to an appropriate number based on your internet package.

5. The Number of Seeders is Less than the Number of Peers
Since uTorrent is a peer-to-peer application, the downloads that can be found on it are sourced by other users. Users who source a file for download are titled seeders, whereas users who download from others are called peers. If a file has a large number of seeders, then there are more possible options for the program to create the fastest path for peers to download from. If your download speeds are slow, it could just be due to a lack of seeders. To fix the problem, just choose another file with a greater number of seeders.

uTorrent is designed to be fast and friendly, so if you are still experiencing problems after running through the above list, then check your hardware and internet service package to determine what else may be causing slow speeds.
 

If your uTorrent client is not connecting to peers, the chances are that your network or system firewall is the problem. uTorrent uses specific ports for incoming and outgoing traffic. If those are blocked, you won’t be able to download or seed torrent files.

Fortunately, there is a quick fix. Open the uTorrent client and navigate to Options > Preferences.

Enable the following three options:
•   Enable UPnP port mapping
•   Enable NAT-PMP port mapping
•   Add Windows Firewall exception