How to open ports on router for better torrent performance

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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.