Calculate Your Optimal BitTorrent Settings
Written by Ernesto on March 19, 2007Configuring your BitTorrent client is extremely important if you want to get the best out of BitTorrent. However, the settings pane of the average BitTorrent client might be a bit overwhelming, and some people just don’t know where to start. For novices, this BitTorrent settings calculator might come in handy.
The calculator gives some good suggestions that might improve your overall download speed. Just enter the maximum upload speed of your connection, and the calculator will give you your recommended upload speed, maximum connections per torrent, and some other settings. The calculator can be used for every torrent client.
The maximum upload speed is by far the most important setting. It might sound strange to some, but you should always cap your upload speed to reach the best download speeds. Your connection is (sort of) like a pipeline (or tube if you prefer), if you max out your upload speed the pipe will be fully used, which means there’s not enough space left for the files you are downloading. The calculator recommends to set it at 80% of your maximum, I agree with that. People with high-speed connections might go a bit higher, and set is at 85% or even 90%.
Some people find that when they are seeding, browsing the web becomes sluggish. This is due to a badly configured upload speed in their BitTorrent client. When you have the correct upload speed entered into your client, browsing the web is noticeably quicker and seeding becomes almost transparent.
How to configure your maximum upload speed?
uTorrent: options > preferences > connection
Azureus: tools > options > transfer
Bitcomet: try this ?
Here at TorrentFreak we also wrote some post about optimizing BitTorrent download speeds, might be worth the read if you want to know more.
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Wilhelmsson: When everything is available, all the time, you don’t need to store it locally like you typically did at the dawn of P2P. If you want to see a particular film, you can find it and have it home in a couple of minutes.
You don’t need to build an archive any longer. That said, I have a couple of terabytes. That’s not unusual today, though.
Elohssa: I wouldn’t be so sure. Several studies here are showing that the TV is being slowly replaced, and IP telephony is coming very strongly. Myself, I haven’t had a TV set for ten years. I just don’t understand the appeal of tuning in to prepackaged entertainment on somebody else’s schedule, and I haven’t had a landline phone in some eight years (I use cellphone only). Radio is a different matter. I don’t have one of those, either - I mostly have Pandora running.
There are plenty of historical examples of companies choosing not to pursue new technology in favor of existing revenue streams. My favorite is Polaroid, the instant camera manufacturer, who were actually first with digital photography (which has completely obsoleted Polaroid). They chose not to pursue that technology on exactly the grounds that it would kill their existing business, and they went bankrupt a couple of years ago.
Wilhelmsson: Take a look at the top 10 countries list at your favourite private tracker and then guess why bittorrent is so fast. ;)
Thanks to this website i am now getting good download speeds.
Here in the UK we seem to be way behind the times when it comes too internet speeds, we only just rolling out speeds of upto 32MB and thats only in two major citys in the UK everyone else has to do with 8MB and less!!!
Thank you soooo much for this site. I was only getting download speeds of about 60 kB/s and after using the BitTorrent settings calculator I am now getting speeds of over 300 kB/s - I’m totally amazed.
Thanks again!
OMG!
Are you telling me that we’re nearly as bad for broadband as Americans????(No offence)
I’m only gettin like 2(yes 2!)Mbit/s, but that’s mainly because I live about 150km frm d big shmoke aka Dublin
The government doesnt really give a **** about the other 90% of the population as long as those d4 pricks can see Ross O’Carroll Kelly say “Awlroysh” in 1080p on a 36″ telly, Live, from The Moon, wearing a leinster jersey, while playing rugby, and drinkin west coast cooler, all while opening a Brown Thomas Outlet
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U americans should get out of your bubble.
America is not as good as your greedy politicians are trying to fool u with..
A old lady in southern Sweden has the fastest connection in the world.. :)
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To any americans (myself included) Verizon offers a fiber optic package in certain locations currently with those ridiculous speeds and they are expanding their market everyday, so check out their site and see if it’s available to your area.
For heavens sake stop digging at one another, so mine is faster than yours, who gives a dam, actually we’re already working on tera connections but you won’t see them for a couple of years yet! There I’ve said enough.
We have quite the setup here at the homestead. 2 comps in each room for multitasking, yes we are all adah. And a main server in the attic. Our better processors are 3.4Gb with up to 2 gig of Ram. We have two separate internet connections, one hardline for dl’ing (100/100Mb), the other wireless for surfing (54mb). Every comp equipped with 10/100/1000 ethernet cards. Not a bad setup for a bunch of stoners, Now ehres the thing, wtf are you people talking about dl’ing @ 100Mb.what per second? I doubt it. In Rochester, NY (US) we are noted for some of the best digitally involved technological colleges in the world. T1 & T3 optical connections are normal. We have one of the most widely dispersed free wi-fi in the world. Normal connection speed even in the US is yes listed @ 100Mb, 54Mb for wireless, but do you know that it’s nearly impossible to dl @ that speed? You self proclaimed 100Mb dl’ers, wtf are you using? If you are dl’n faster than even 1-5 Mb/s, (not listed bandwidth or connection speed people, actual dl’n speed, they are COMPLETELY different), you have one hell of a setup, or you are running your own servers. We have a “magic box” that lets us transfer @ 1 gig/sec, but these are hardlined together. Even in swarms of ten of thousands of “torrenters” (which they will most assuredly call us soon), Max dl If we are lucky will reach 5-10 Mb/s. ANd remember one last thing, you could have biggest bestest computer in the whole world, but if the people you are ul’n from only connect @ Kb/s, it all means sqwat.
The only thing torrents will do is make the rich a little less rich, and the poor a little less poor. I love you people.
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Guys i live in Greece and i have a cheap duplex connection at 85down/45up and it costs me about 25 euros /month… come on.. if the ppl in the states have still dsl or cable… well… europe rocks.
Btw after the ;last updates in Azureus and Bitcomet the above tips dont work. One good tip is to access ur rooter and give him the exact ports that ur client uses,
if anyone is interresting how to have stable speed in torrents just use the following query in google:
port mantake& or +”routermodelname” bittorent.
dont use the ” or both & and + signs.
example
port mantake+cisco980ft bitorrent.
u will get the walkthroughts for ur router. or if you are really bored to search and go edit ur router’s options just download connection optimizer,.(from version 2.34 I think i was out on September 2k7) it has a button for optimizing ur bittorrent client. It supports the most known and i can tell u that it works for bitcomet after version 0.91 and azureus vuze..3.0.4.2
other clients like μtorrent… never tested so play with it.
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