uTorrent streaming and number of simultaneous pieces being downloaded

Okay, I have notice a problem when trying to stream videos via uTorrent, mainly those with small piece size.

You see, when downloading file normaly (pieces at random), it will queue a lot of pieces. For me it's 20ish 256kB pieces. However, if you try to stream the file with MPC-HC, it will only queue about 6 pieces at once.

With only 6 pieces of 256kB being downloaded at once, the speed of the download goes down to almost a half in my case, despite uTorrent reporting the max speed (1.1MBps to about 500kBps). I'm guessing that, despite of the download speed being 1.1MBps, it cannot be utilized properly with such a small number of pieces at ones (having to wait to setup a connection with a new peer or whatever, which is not a problem if you download 20 pieces at once, since there will be enough pieces to interweave the setup and download part).

Do you know how to fix this?

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