Sunday 18 February 2018

Setting up uTorrent

This is a guide for setting up uTorrent on BT Home Hub with UPnP disabled.

These instructions were written with uTorrent 3.5.1


Step 1 Confirm listening port

Go to Options > Preferences > Connection and confirm which port uTorrent is set to listen on.
Ensure Randomize port each start is turned off. 
uTorrent Connection preferences

Step 2 Define a new app for mTorrent

On the BT Home Hub go to advanced settings > port forwarding > supported applications and add a new game or application for uTorrent as shown below. Use the port number as confirmed in step 1.


Adding uTorrent as a new game or application on the BT Home Hub

Step 3 Set port forwarding

On the BT Home Hub go to Port Forwarding > Configuration. Select the game or application mTorrent to be forwarded to your PC running mTorrent and then select Add then Apply.

Set port forwading on the BT Home Hub


Step 4 Confirm all is now working

Confirm uTorrent now shows a green tick in the bottom right hand corner of the window indicating Network OK.