What are things I can do to make qBitTorrent faster? It's inconsistent in a way that uTorrent was for me. How can I make it faster? What are the optimal settings?

Well you can simply google: open ports router, followed by qbitorrent ports. Ports are very ELI5 basically doors aplications use to comunicate from The internet to your pc, maybe you can consider them highways as oposed to the road that every1 uses and is busy as fuck! Why would some1 downvote my previous comment Without saying why.... Would be great to know!

TLDR - ports are mailboxes. Port forwarding forwards the mail from mailbox X to mailbox Y. Think of ports as mailboxes. Let's say you wanted to hand deliver a letter to Joe at the Acme Brick company. You would go to the address of the Acme Brick Company. The company employs 5,000 people. So you would see a grid of boxes with people's names on them. You find the one that belongs to Joe and you put the letter in there. This is kind of how computer's talk to each other. The street address is the IP address of the computer (say 192.168.1.1) and the grid of mailboxes is the port. If you want to talk to a computer via http, you would send your information and requests to port 80. If you wanted to talk to them with a different protocol like RDP, you would talk to 3389. If you wanted to talk to the SMTP service on that computer, you'd talk to port 25. You are going to that computer and putting your correspondence in a particular mailbox (port). Now, let's say that Joe is a secret agent who works for the Acme Brick Company. To you, he's known as Joe. To everyone inside the company, he's known as Bob. This identity may be so super-secret that Bob doesn't even know what name you know him by. You just know him as Joe. You want to talk to Joe so you go to the Acme Brick Company, you find their grid of mailboxes and you put your letter in Joe's mailbox. Some poor mail clerk on the other side (your router) know's Joe's secret identity. So he takes the mail from Joe's box and put's it in Bob's mailbox. This way Bob can pick it up. This is port forwarding.

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