Thread: Utorrent 2.2.1 still downloading at same speed as it was before upgrading bandwidth

Originally Posted by Ka0t1x

I know how to fix your problem!

I just upgraded from FiOS 25/25 to 35/35 today, and I was having the same issue, speeds didn't seem any different.

To fix this, make sure your "GLOBAL MAX NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS" is set to something very high... like 5000 or whatever. Don't worry, FiOS CAN HANDLE IT!

I saw my speeds shoot up.... Now I'm downloading at a solid 5.4 MB/s WOW!!!




p.s. Verizon does NOT throttle bandwidth... YET.

+1. Verizon does not throttle bandwidth at all, and can handle a great lot of connections (I opened up uTorrent to check, and my global connections was actually set to 5000).

The caveat to this is that the ROUTER can't always handle the connections. The Actiontec MI424WR is the most common router used by FiOS, but Revisions A-D of that router use a NAT table that's excessively small, limiting the amount of global connections. There are workarounds for it if you have another router, which can be described here, on DSLReports.

I'll add something to this effect, in a more detailed post, to the Tutorial section.

-Z