BitTorrent (BT) is one of the near popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocols used to share and distribute large files and data over the Internet. A BitTorrent client is required to send or receive files, where 1 of the most pop BitTorrent customer is μTorrent.

One prominent feature of BitTorrent P2P protocol is that users of BitTorrent network are automatically uploading and transferring to other downloading peers while they're downloading the files. As sharing (i.e. uploading) is important feature of BitTorrent to ensure the health of the file distribution network, due to the fact that if nobody seeds, and everybody leeches, the files shared on the BitTorrent volition quickly dice off.

That's why the option to disable uploading or seeding in BT customer is difficult to find, with some BT clients not even provide such an option. uTorrent (µTorrent), one of the most popular BitTorrent client does accept the ability to stop the seeding and uploads, admitting indirectly. This tutorial guides you lot on how to turn off seeding and disable the uploads in uTorrent.

Note that y'all're considering as bad leecher or freeloader past most BitTorrent trackers if you lot completely disabled the uploads, which may cause you to be banned from the trackers.

  1. In uTorrent, get to Options -> Preferences.
  2. Become to Bandwidth section.
  3. Gear up the maximum update rate (kB/s): [0: unlimited] to 1 (not really necessary, but just in case uploads are yet happening, at least the rate is slowest.
  4. Prepare the number of upload slots per torrent to 0.

    Disable Seeding in uTorrent

  5. Go to Queuing section.
  6. Set the minimum ratio (%) under "Seeding Goal" to 0.
  7. Set the minimum seeding time nether "Seeding Goal" to 0.
  8. Set up the minimum number of available seeds under "Seeding Goal" to 0.
  9. Select (tick) the check box for limit the upload rate to (kB/southward): [0 = stop] under "When uTorrent Reaches the Seeding Goal", and set its value to 0.

    Turn Off Uploading in uTorrent

  10. That'due south information technology. Try to add a torrent and start downloading. you should notice that no information is been uploaded, even though at that place is all the same to communication happens.