Any tips for speeding up torrents?

[Greyone]

I'm kinda new to torrenting, and was wondering if there was any way to speed it up.

I'm currently using bittorrent, should I be using utorrent ?

I am downloading quite a large linux os, and have uploaded 1.4gb, but only downloaded 746mb.

I'm getting 16-20kb/s down and 40kb/s up, and down is set to unlimited and up is set to 40kb/s. Should I change that ?

 

[ilyace]

I would use utorrent, it's all I've ever used and it works nicely. As for maximizing your speeds, I had a nice guide for utorrent, I'll see If I can find it.

Edit: Here it is: It helped me reach my highest dl speeds in torrents: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/utorrent_guide.cfm

 

[eighty4]

It's not really up to you how fast it goes - it's the uploader/seeder ratio.

 

[FrozenIpaq]

Your ISP might be throttling your torrent traffic, if so you will have to encrypt the connection (should be located somewhere in the settings for bittorent). This helped me out since Comcast throttles my bandwidth with torrents but it's a hit and miss for most

 

[Bran]

Also if you seed more the trackers you are connected to usually let you download more.

 

[Greyone]

thanks for the tips :tup:

@FrozenIpaq

I don't think my ISP is throttling my speeds, since I got 512kb/s down a couple weeks ago

 

[Zero]

You also need to balance your upload/download. I use upload limits to get a good download speed, then seed at unlimited.

 

[Hardrive]

I'm with Zero on this. My very maximum upload speed is 40 kb/s. If I get near this, my downstream gets clogged, and I get stuck just uploading. On my connection, I have to limit my upload to about 20 kb/s to get a decent download speed. A lot of it is just trial and error.

Also, make sure if you have a router to forward the correct port to the computer torrenting.

 

[mohaas05]

In Utorrent, if you set the upload speed very low, the download speed will reduce to like 2kb/sec. Raising it to acceptable level will raise the download speed too.

It seems these two things follow a certain ratio.

 

[Greyone]

In Utorrent, if you set the upload speed very low, the download speed will reduce to like 2kb/sec. Raising it to acceptable level will raise the download speed too.

It seems these two things follow a certain ratio.

yeah, same thing happens to me in bittorent

 

[RoBz]

In Utorrent, if you set the upload speed very low, the download speed will reduce to like 2kb/sec. Raising it to acceptable level will raise the download speed too.

It seems these two things follow a certain ratio.

They removed that feature after 1.8.

 

[Greyone]

Also if you seed more the trackers you are connected to usually let you download more.

yeah, that must be how this tracker is

i just hit 3gb upload, and now my download rate is 100 kb/s and there have been no changes in my seeds or peers.
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hit 150 kb/s now

it's flying, the ETA changed from 1 d 23 h, to 2h

 

[Hooger]

yeah, that must be how this tracker is

i just hit 3gb upload, and now my download rate is 100 kb/s :d and there have been no changes in my seeds or peers.
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hit 150 kb/s now

it's flying, the eta changed from 1 d 23 h, to 2h

; )

 

[Savagefreak]

; )

Usenet <3
Also:

*cums*

 

[Hooger]

i dont have the speeds capable of that, even with usenet.

i wished i live in japan :'(

 

[Moose]

My average download speed is 600kb/s.

 

[Zero]

Lucky. 150kbps max....

 

[Adiuvo]

Mine is about 75kb/s

Comcast throttles them, and if I turn on encryption it raises the speed to the current level. Most I ever got was around 250kb/s.

 

[Mast3r_Shak3]

I remember I used to get like 2kb/s then I set up a static IP and now it works like a charm..

But make sure you have your port forwarded correctly and isn't in the 6199-6899 range (or whatever it is) because ISPs commonly block those ports due to torrenting/p2p.

 

[Moose]

Christ... I thought my old speed of 250kb/s was bad. How wrong I was.