Speed up your torrents
Written by Ernesto on November 30, 2005Help! BitTorrent is slow… This is probably one of the most frequently asked questions I get about BitTorrent. Unfortunately there’s not some kind of magic trick that makes your torrents go through the roof. But you could take some simple steps to optimize your speeds.
1. Cap your upload (most important)
Limit your upload speed to approximately 80 percent of your maximum upload rate. You can check your upload speed over here (never trust your isp). Once you know your maximum upload speed, change the max upload (to 80%) speed in your torrent client’s preferences.
Don’t get me wrong, everyone should share as much as possible, but if your upload rate reached it’s max, your download rate suffers significantly.
2. Hack the max TCP connections
If you’re on XP sp2, your TCP connections are limited to a maximum of 10. This seriously hurts your downloading speed because it wont let you connect to a high amount of ip numbers. It is supposed to slow down viruses because their spreading strategy is to connect to a high amount of ip numbers, but it also cripples your torrent downloads.
A nice way to fix this is to download this patch, it allows you to set the maximum allowed connections to any number you want. Any number between 50 and 100 is ok (more on this).
3. Check seeds and peers
A simple tip, but o so important. Always look for torrents with the best seed/peer ratio. The more seeds (compared to peers) the better (in general). So 50 seeds and 50 peers is better than 500 seeds and 1000 peers. So, be selective.
4. Change the default port.
By default, BitTorrent uses a port 6881-6999. BitTorrent accounts for a lot of the total internet traffic (1/3), so isp’s like to limit the connection offered on the these ports. So, you should change these to another range. Good clients allow you to do this, just choose anything you like. If you’re behind a router, make sure you have the ports forwarded or UPnP enabled.
5. Disable Windows Firewall
It sucks. Windows Firewall hates P2P and often leads a life of it’s own. So disable it and get yourself a decent firewall, Kerio or Zone Alarm for example.
Last but not least… Buy a faster connection…
Read more on optimizing your BitTorrent Speed.
Here’s a list of 20 BitTorrent tips and tricks.
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Research the firewall options a bit more.
I switched to Sygate after hearing of incompatibility reports between Azureus and ZoneAlarm 5.
http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/ZoneAlarm
Nice guide!
You’re right. But, Azureus seems to work just fine with the most recent ZA versions.
what’s wrong with microsoft firewall?
Ms firewall blocks things that don’t need to be blocked, lets stuff in that has to be kept out. And it is not customizable to any degree…
Another vote for Sygate Personal Firewall. Free for personal use, uncluttered (no stupid ’skinning’) user interface, customizable to death, tracks all sorts of neat stuff (executables changing contents, invoking each other, etc.).
Another good bittorrent tip is to use a client that allows you to select each file to be downloaded from a multi-file torrent (like bitcomet which I use, but I’m sure others handle this too). Open up the torrent, select the 2 or 3 files you want, and skip the 20 you don’t want.
Hey! Good guide, but I’ve just got to comment on some comments. I’m running the latest version of ZoneAlarm. I used to hate the older versions, e.g. before v6. Even Kevin Mitnick’s using it! ;-)
I’m using the latest version of Azureus with ZA, with no problems whatsoever.
Sygate has been bought by Symantec who are shutting down production. See: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39238815,00.htm
I’ve been using it for some time after running into problems with ZA blocking things even when it was saying that it was not. If that’s improved in recent versions, I may move back.
Another good suggestion is: wait! The torrent will slowly get faster as your client connects to more peers.
If what you want is also available from a well connected mirror, use that. It’s almost always faster.
Suggestion number 2 is not quite correct: according to the link that you provide XP SP2 limits the number of HALF-Open connections to 10. This may infact hurt BT during the initial connection phase of a download, but not during the bulk of the time. I don’t think changing it from 10 to 50 will provide any noticable speed increase.
Rick, you’re right, it should be HALF open connections. For all the details I provided the additional link.
And I’m not claiming that the speeds will change dramatically, but it certainly helps. For me at least..
how can i get more seeders and peers beacuse my peers are like 20(2000)
Let me chime in with a not so scientific experience. When using BitComet, one can see how many half open connections there are currently.
With upatched SP2 I was constantly seeing 10 half open connections and fairly slow take up on multiple torrents.
When patching the system to 10,000+ connections BitComet was maxing out on 65 half open connections and torrents got of a bit faster.
This seems to suggest that my system (cpu, HD, NIC, router, bandwidth or other bits) would not cope with much more than 100 half open connections anyway.
yea i get this problem when i try to use that patch thing to change half-open connections. it says it needs to change the name of the TCPIP.sys file during the patching, and i say it’s ok, but then it says it cant change the name of it and i have to change it manually, what do i do?
Have you disabled “system restore”?
how do i do that?
rightclick on “my computer” > properties > system restore.
i turned off system restore, but it says it needs to rename the file to change from 10 to 50, so i select yes, but then it says i have to change it manually, which doesn’t seem to work.
Why cant i disable the Windows Firewall???It says its administrated by a group policy?Dont remember telling it to do so….but does anyone know how i change it?
which is better to speedup torrent files
using windows firwall or
disable windows firwall and usig another one ?
you know what..recently iam think of istalling win98..instead if winxp..i think its better for these things..also its less memory consuming..how abt it?
Hey. I did all those steps yesterday. Today, when I woke up and turned on my PC, my torrents wouldn’t start downloading. They’re still not working. What went wrong?
is there any tweaks i can download to help my torrent speed
Oh it is. Just use the google: BitComet speed guides, Azureus speed guides etc. :D
how do i change to the another range port? It’s in OS port or torrent software port?
(Refer : 4. Change the default port.)
you should change the port in your torrent software
Your ISP may be throttling your BitTorrent
Here is a mep of other users which are experiencing Torrent Throttling by their ISP’s
http://www.frappr.com/broadbandusersagainstbittorrentthrottle
Try changing your Clients port to 1720
http://digg.com/users/iguananed
Your link to the patch listed in Hack the max TCP connections (this patch), is broken. Is there another place or way I can get this patch?
Indeed. If you can’t find a new link could you at least give us the name of the file so we might be able to look for it ourselves.
here ya go
http://torrentfreak.com/evid4226patch223d-enzip/
original site is back up btw
http://lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
Ya’ll may wanna try speeding up your connections as well. Best place to do it is at http://www.cablenut.com
Install the program and the Update, a great freebie
Hey, thanks mate for your help, can u suggest a way to hide the ip when using p2p..
hiding your ip is nearly impossible. You can block the bad guys though
http://torrentfreak.com/keep-the-bad-guys-out/
Thanks for the helpful tips above I have done everything and still dont get any improvments. can you suggest anything else…
My ISP is tiscali… in the uk… i have an unlimided dsl line.. never exceed the speen fo 23kbs.. its not good. I hear of people getting half a meg.. what am i do wrong.. or what am i not doing???
Thanks.. I lookforward to hearing for you …
Sorry hear is my URL link…..
I have the same prob, I’m on BT in the Uk and can reach up to 150 on limewire but when it come to bitcomet my download speeds are as low as 6kbs but uploads hit 50/60kbs. Any one help? I’ve tried all of the above, some of which made things worse!!!
cheers
Oh, i’m on a wireless net work does this affect the speeds? None of the other computers were in use when the above speeds were recorded! I’ve been downloading SWAT 4 for 17h33min and counting……HELP ME PLEASE!!!!
hmmm i’ve tried patching the lvllord.de patch but the max half-open connections continues to go bACK to 10….this is very frustrating…thanks for the help
Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro is far superior to anything else i’ve tried and that includes Zone Alarm, Sygate and NIS, its highly customisable and it has plug-ins which you can disable if you don’t need them so as to use less resources.
I have 877 kb/s in download speed and 118 upload speed, I checked that out in one of the speedcheckers websites, but when I’m downloading in utorrent, can’t go pass 2 kB/s which is absolutely absurd, can anyone help me? I don’t have firewall, chose right port… anythin else?
hassan.. who’s your isp?
Good information here folks…
Everytime i download torrents using Azureus my pc does not shut down it sticks on “saving your settings” anyone know about this problem??
This seems a common problem. I use charter. I can get HTTP downloads around 3mb…but Bittorrent and Azureus are down to around 3kb. This is even after changing ports and handling port forwarding and enabling a ping on my router.
I feel your pain!
please could somebody explained
if it is possible and how bittorrent
can run from a linux box (i am superuser in this) which is in a windows network and
sits behind a firewall over which I have no administrative privilege?
I can ssh from my linux box and I can surf the web.
Bittorrent says NAT error when trying to verify connection via the 68** ports.
I tried to set ports 22 (ssh) or 80 but to no avail.
any solution?
andre – Sorry i dont know anyway u can run it without admin access. U need to open your ports in NAT’ed router
How Come On My Azereus My Force Start Is not clickable i cant force start my downloadz y not?
Well some of you might be having problems because of the torrent file you chose to download. Before trying some of these measures go and download a smaller file, under 20mb, and see if you still download at a slow rate. I don’t really have many problems, and I am using a very old computer at the moment. I have uploaded at 1.3mb/s before and download at around 100-200kb/s regularly. I think most XP user’s should use uTorrent and either change the default port or set their firewalls to allow connection through it. And yes I also recommend Zonealarm or some other equally good free firewall. The windows default firewall isn’t all bad for a newbie, since in SP2 it is on by default.
hi
you should try this program “shareaza” it conects to five kind of neighbourt such are kad, limewire, bittorrent, emule and the speed is really nice, it have a powerfull search motor and nices GUI menus, i uset it, and the downloads are fast but it deppents on how much seeds are connected, i’ve reached a speed of 10 KB/s downloading FF VIII game (using torrent method)
sorry my english,
bye
do u guys no were i can find ace combat belkan war the newest one.
haahaahhahahaah youre right
why port 1720? i do not know all ports, so can anyone please tell me this?
how do i transfer incomplete downloads from winmx or warezp2p to azureus
Thank you for such a comprehensive guide. Very organized and straightforward. Thanks!
like, ms firewall sucks (see previous)
zonealarm 6 (wich incidentally is compatible with p2p) has a triple defence system. sygate pro has somthin similar 2, but doesnt say it
Okay
I alway got my max speed download if the swarm speed is not too low, the better swarm speed are the better speed we get, so everone just plz not limit ur upload speed. :)
And just fix ur NAT problem first if you have. (70% speed inrease if you fix this problem)
use norton personal firewall, it’s good, did not slow down my speed DL. With me, Firewall they block but they not slow down, that mean you can’t download or you can download.
MS Firewall is good if you know how to use them.
i found that when i was trying diff. internet security and antivirus, the antivirus (norton and panda) detected the tcpip.sys patcher as Hacktool. i found that this is only because it has the same binary code as Hacktool, but it isn’t a virus http://torrentfreak.com/wp-images/smilies/icon_smile.gif
:)
Hey, I got an issue. I lost all download speed after the patch, Gained upload speed though. was up to around 3megs/s total DL speed with multi torrents but now i’m maxing out at like 40k/s anyone know how to unpatch or what maybe up. Using Bitlord and opened the listening port. Settings set to unlimited DL and 55 UL same as before patch. TY if you got any advise. Was just trying to increase UL for sharing.
And it’s fixed ~~
Just uninstalled the patch by running it again and chosing the -u option immediatly my DLs began to increase again. Dunno what happened but this patch was anti-helpful for me. Hope this helps anyone who is haveing similar issues.
I can even reach 3kb/s at bit torrent client! i tried evrything! give me some help with ports and settings pleaseeeeeeeee. recently i download swat 4 and it takes me 1 week. :-( helpppp please!!!!
how do u config the max half oopen tcp connections in azureus
I cant understand this sh*t. I dont have the NAT problem (my health is always green), Azureus is running on port 49155, the torrent I’m downloading have alot of seeds/peers, I’ve done everything right all the good configuration, all the patches sh*ts out there. My connections is 2Mbps/128kbps which means that my download stream is (more or less) 200 Kbytes/sec and my upload stream is (more or less) 15Kbytes/sec… Said all this I cant get downloads speeds over 10Kbytes/sec average… this is crap. 10Kbytes/sec is like 5% of my max download capacity. Anyone have a solution?!?!
One more thing… I dont have routers, I dont have firewall, I dont have ANYTHING !!!
I changed them from 10 to 80, and my download speed went from 130KB to 180KB. Thank you, Earnesto, for the helpful little tip.
HY!I just fixed like it says,and youre right!From 16h I got to 4h.Man you realy now your stuff.If you got something else that can make it better than it is,you let us know.
BY!
Thanks so much for the patch to hack the max TCP connections, im now going alot faster!
i did all steps and nothing happend.i am using bitcomet and port 52525.i don’t know mutch about this but, i disabled windows firewall and i opend port 52525 on my routher.Right now my speed is 20 KB/s, and when i run the speed test it is 611 kbit/s.something is wrong.plz help me out!
i tryed the patch to hack the max TCP, but it didnt work at all.
when i show statistics in uTorrent it says # of half-opend: 0
is that something i want to have?or is it good i got 0?
I read that install EvID4226Patch223d is an EULA viloation. Is it true? What are the conseguences?
i did everything i can
my connection is still slow
!!!
either i get like 80 kbps
or once i got 131 kbps
but most of the times
like 0.8 kbps
!!!!
im using zone alarm firewall
im on 10mb connection
max speed i get is 300kbs and wne i was on 4mb i was gettin 400
im using bit tornado could some1 tell me the best torrent program 2 use please
thanx
you don’t have to disable the xp firewall
how about BitLord?? how do u change the downloading speed?
Zerb, you must have mistaken bytes and bits, 4mb is 4 mega-bit and kb/s is kilo-byte per second, is can also be (bit), what why you usually write kbit and kbyte, then you can easily tell the diffrent. You can use google to calculate the precise speed. write in google:
4 megabit to kilobyte
I tried the tcpip hack to allow more then 10 peers as stated in the article. My torrent of MS Vist Beta went from 16k to 80k. To all the naysayers out there, don’t try this. To everyone who wants a faster download, go for it.
i use utorrent and when i download a big file like 1gb it goes fast for a few hours but after a while it slows down. i hav a 1500k internet connection on adsl.
if u hav the answer plz contact http://www.snoopinc.piczo.com@hotmail.com
hello every1 im a newbie to this torrent stuff, and i have 8mb broadband, but th fastst download i have got is like 55kb/s. whichi kno i bad for 8mb. cold some1 please add me on msn or email me and give me a beginners guide to make my downloads faster. cos all this stuff i read about forwarding ports and all that, i dont understand it. much appreciation to any1 that helps thanks. high_allthetime@hotmail.co.uk
The second I turn off MS Firewall my downloads go from 5Kb\s to 200Kb\s
hey i dont know y but since i have Norton intenet security is not leting me use my Torrent. i dont know what to do ive been using bitlord and i was fine till i got the norton. What should i do?, can some one help me figure this out please.
hello
I have done almost everyhing, but still my download speed doesn’t go any higher that 15Kb/s
I have forwarded the ports on my router and also, have opened the ports on my MaCafee firewall and everything seems to be fine, but I son’t have goof download rate, can you help me about this?
My speed has never been good since i got satelite internet, but the download speed is faster then my old dial up. I am using utorrent to do all of my downloads now and my speed was always around 10/s. I changed my port just a little while ago and my download speed is between 30-50 kb’s sometimes more.
Port# I switched to is 25440. Hope it works for u other people.
If you are having problems with downloading speeds or quality switch to utorrent. Sometime you have to play around to get a fast download speed,but once you figure it out its the best way to go. Utorrent never has viruses and the quality is like non other. Try axxo and make sure you download divx or xvid files.
Hi
well, I have tried almost all of the bittorrent clients and none of the migive me a good speed!
I have forwarded the ports too, but still no change,
I can’t think of anything else to forward or do!
can somebody help me pease?
I teted my download and upload speed and my download speed is 173KB/s and upload is 44KB/s but alla i recieve is no more than 10KB/s.
do you have any ideas why?
its because u sucked!!!!!
can anybody let me know how to transfer incomplete torrents from one system to another? I use uTorrent 1.6 and want to change the machine it runs on to another one on the network. I moved the *.tut files, told uTorrent the location of the files but it doesnt’ seem to load them when I start it. Am I missing something? are there *.torrent files saved somewhere else? I thought the *.tut files *include* the *.torrent info (?)
what i did was just copied the whole program across, coz as ive noticed these torrent programs dont need any registry crap to make it work!
another thing is (this is for the bitcommet users) how would you transfer your downloads for one version to a newer one? coz ive tried everything and the stupid thing doesn’t want to transfer from Version 6 to Version 7?
TURN OFF THE WINDOWS FIREWALL IT WORKSSS
if u want faster torrents why dont you u download bitlord and then tweak your firewall settings
I am trying to use Bitlord, every time I downloads a driver from any webpage download at a speed 300kps to 500kps but when I user Bitlord it only go no a maximum of 13kps to 10kps. now I see a program call UseNeTX. Is the same program as Bitlord or is difrent, is it faster??? Can you guys help.
Do NOT use UseNeXT
NEVER pay for filesharing applications
Remember that you are not getting the file from a webserver, but from other users. The speed of your download depends on the number of people that share the file, and their upload speed
thanks for the info. now I have this other problem, I am downloading a file 678mb big, my bitlord stay at 99.9% complete since 15hours ago and still trying to download that last 0.01% left some times the download gauge say 1kb then 0kb then 1kb so on. Any sugestions guys?
i did everything suggested and I am whizzing, my bitlord is downloading at 100+kb/s, instead of the 2-20 kb/s that I was getting….thanx everyone….btw patch is excellent…cheers
I bought new PC and I’m interest how I can move incomplete uTorrent downloads from old PC to new one?
I’m looking to set-up a P2P start-up, bootstrapped by hocking my wife’s jewellery and re-mortgaging the house – anyone got bold ideas and want to join me? I’m thinking of developing a download to speed up torrents – or something totally different that no one has thought of yet – come jack in the 9-5 and lets build something mean and ugly!
Best,
Abel
abelflint@yahoo.co.uk
[quote comment="205"]Oh, i’m on a wireless net work does this affect the speeds? None of the other computers were in use when the above speeds were recorded! I’ve been downloading SWAT 4 for 17h33min and counting……HELP ME PLEASE!!!![/quote]
Hi, there do you have 2mb broadband? If you do i have great settings for bitcomet, i’ve reached speeds of up to 220 kb/s download that is, but if the seeds are good then usually get 180kb/s. My settings are 250 kb/s download and 10kb/s upload and you have to type a number in the listening port. These settings can be changed when you click on preferrences.
how do i porforwor a port?becose i need to in order to seed a torrent
pls help
Cristi
let me refrese what is UPnP and how do i port forword step by step pls
Cristi
i did everything on the guide except for changing since i don’t use a linksys cable and i have trouble with the cable i do use. anyway, it’s still downloading at around 5 kbs
Can I just say that if you have Windows XP sp2, the only thing that is affecting your download speeds is the torrents themselves. Meximizing the number of TCP connectections and that rubbish will get your nowhere (it just breaks your computer like it broke mine). FIND TORRENTS THAT HAVE MORE SEEDS THAN PEERS and you will reach speeds of 200kb/s in non-peak hours. I used to be around 9kb/s than I just found how to find good torrents and now it’s fast!! FIND TORRENTS THAT HAVE MORE SEEDS THAN PEERS. it’s as simple as that! FIND TORRENTS THAT HAVE MORE SEEDS THAN PEERS!
[quote comment="1947"]i did all steps and nothing happend.i am using bitcomet and port 52525.i don’t know mutch about this but, i disabled windows firewall and i opend port 52525 on my routher.Right now my speed is 20 KB/s, and when i run the speed test it is 611 kbit/s.something is wrong.plz help me out![/quote]
kane are you using any sort of firewall if you are make sure the port your using is allowed make sure the port is the same in utorrent 0 is what you want in stats halfopen.also if you have used luvlords patch set it to 100 and in utorrent advanced change net half open to 80 you need both for the patch to work well
[quote comment="68"]yea i get this problem when i try to use that patch thing to change half-open connections. it says it needs to change the name of the TCPIP.sys file during the patching, and i say it’s ok, but then it says it cant change the name of it and i have to change it manually, what do i do?[/quote] when you use the patch you will see a message from windows fist one press cancel when it tells you to insert cd second one press yes I want to keep this new file and your done. the patch does the rest, check on it every month or so because windows updates changes it back to 10 every now and then good luck
Goddamnit, torrents piss me off. I almost never go over 20kb/s, regardless of the amount of seeders and peers. 24mbit connection, and all I get is 20kb?! When I check the peers subpage in bitcomet, it shows that 90% of peers are getting speeds over 50 \ 100kb/s.!
BitDefender sez that patch (EvID4226Patch223d-en.zip) has “Backdoor.Virkel.A” in it… nice link mate ):
[quote comment="13618"]BitDefender sez that patch (EvID4226Patch223d-en.zip) has “Backdoor.Virkel.A” in it… nice link mate ):[/quote]
Some AntiVir Software vendors added the patcher into their virus-definitions. The patcher is often detected as ‘Tool/EvID’. But as a first info:
The patcher ist NO VIRUS.
Some virus and trojanwriter uses the same technique to increase the limit. After that its easier for them to spread to other computers in the internet. This runs without knowledge of the user. So he is not informed about what’s going on.
With the patcher here, every user can decide on his own if he wants to change the file and if yes how high the limit should be. Also the user will be warned if he chooses to high limits, as already infected machines will spread existent viruses and trojans easier to the net. So everybody can choose on its own and is not forced to. The patcher itself does not contain malware.
The virus-notification therefore should be seen as an information that this program contains the functionality to increase the limit. If that program is not known or has not been installed you can delete it.
I hope I have answered some questions.
Thanks Ernesto, I was getting scared.
I have azureus 2.5.0.0 and my kb is areound 50kb-60kb all the time how do i make my kb like around 120 kb all the time my email is bulletproof_1234@hotmail.com or if you need my x fire it is bullet9t9 and i have a 10mb internet connection
can someone please help me? my down speed varies greatly and is currently around 10 kbs is there a way to get the high speeds some of you get i use xp firewall disabled and utorrent software.i have cable broadband and am new to all this could some one help???please
If any one knows how to make azureus faster let me know on my hotmail bulletproof_1234@hotmail.com or if you need my x fire it is bullet9t9
[quote comment="10582"][quote comment="205"]Oh, i’m on a wireless net work does this affect the speeds? None of the other computers were in use when the above speeds were recorded! I’ve been downloading SWAT 4 for 17h33min and counting……HELP ME PLEASE!!!![/quote]
Hi, there do you have 2mb broadband? If you do i have great settings for bitcomet, i’ve reached speeds of up to 220 kb/s download that is, but if the seeds are good then usually get 180kb/s. My settings are 250 kb/s download and 10kb/s upload and you have to type a number in the listening port. These settings can be changed when you click on preferrences.[/quote]
I have the same setup as that can you send me the data you have to get such a speed. My e-mail is davet_003@hotmail.com – it would be greatly appreciated
The thing with the patch helped me dramatically! I’ve been trying to get my torrent to work right for months and this is all I had to do the whole time.
It seems like half of these people dont read this page before they ask their questions! I have seen the same question asked 20 times, with the answer to the question they are asking written here 50 times! You people should read before you ask and save everyone the trouble.
You Guys Don’t Turn Off your Firewall on windows Xp!!!! You’ll thank me one day. But If you choose not to listen then the popo will be at your door. trust me!!!
Lo people,
I use bitlord 1.1
Right problem i have is i found some guides on how to increase download speed but you have to open ports by port forwarding an the guide i looked at was for a linksys router but i use a bt voyager 205 so i could not find how to do it. Could someone please give me some steps on how to. Also any other setting or stuff i may need to do to optimise downloads using bitlord. Perhaps good firewalls to use, security suites good an bad.
Cheers, please reply
Hey Ernesto: I am experiencing flucuating Byte rates within Azureus. I can not hold a steady rate, it constantly flucuates from ~120kB/s down to 0 kB/s. Typically, it will stay at 0 kB/s for 10-20 secs. then start to climb, hold for about 5 secs at 50 – 100 kB/s then gradually shoot back to 0, then repeat the cycle. Is this normal? If not, any suggestions? It is consistant with every download, regardless of seeds vs. leeches. I am using Azureus with a speakeasy.net tested Download speed of 8600 kbite = 1075 kByte/sec and an Upload speed of 529 kbite/sec = 66k Bytes/sec. I am on port 1720, and have followed all your recommended ratios. I have windows set to handle 100 connections. Thanks in advance and great work!
the max tcp patch duznt work on my comp!!!! an error box comes up and sez: “Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item” how can this be when i am the system admin??? also a McAfee dialog box comes up saying “McAfee ActiveShield has found a suspect file on your computer. McAfee strongly recommends that you scan your computer now” email me with suggestions at rollinondubzzz@hotmail.com … thanx in advance
qns: isit possible to open forward different ports for my utorrent client.. n if so would dat help to increase download speeds.. also.. are there any ‘best’ ports to forward..
thanks in advance ^^
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still a noob at this -_-!
u r all idiots.
im 10 inches closer than u
TEST
All you need to know about setting up your router properly:
http://portforward.com/
now go do some research.
Dude, thx about the router thing been expirencing 100KB download speeds all this time but when i fowarded my port i got 200KB + thanks alot.
Uttorent is great.
1 reson why to download it, ( if u have bitcommet dont uninstall it keep it)
Uttorent is very light so when im handling big apllications mostly like VB6,frontpage or Adboe at the same time ( not very new pc) i need all the memory i can get. =]
Nice Guide. boosted my download speed by up to 100KBs
I am currently downloading some south park episodes and it seems i can only get a max of about 50Kb/s..
When i download music CD`s i can get a max of over 100Kb/s.
Reason: More people are downloading movies then moving them away from bitcomet so that they don`t lagg at all..
they won`t leave the files up so that they become a seed.
very annoying.
The seed/Peer ratio is pretty bad for some torrents.. no one can really help it though.. Unless everyone helps in their own ways. When your done downloading a torrent, Leave the file where it is and leave your computer on for as long as possible.. it helps other people download the same thing because you become a seed..
and also please raise the amount of Kb`s your allowing another person to upload per second.. people are being reallt scummy and lowering it to 1 kb/s.. making it near-impossible to download anything off them.
Sometimes this is a large problem.
If there are (for example) 5 seeds and 20 Peers.. you`ll have low kb/s
Its normal from what i`ve seen and i`ve been using BitComet for 1-2 days..
but downloading like crazy..
anyways
that can explain why some people have done “EVERYTHING POSSIBLE” and they still have low kb/s.
Not Enough Seeds.
hi thanks for the guide now i have installed the patch my internet has messed up it takes quite a long time to go to diffrent websites is der anyway of uninstalin da patch?
Hello everyone. I need A great deal of help with my torrent. The funny thing is when i download music its at normal speeds 50+KB which is fine. But when i download a Movie it stays at 10KB at most. Ive reconfigured everything, i’ve removed my router. Name it, Ive done it. PLESE HELP. My Email is Mark_man5@hotmail.com
How can i use the torrent client over the firewall? I want to use any torrent client at work in a broadband network protected with ISA firewall. I have no acces to firewall settings.
lol diz iz good informtion :)
i used the patch no problem and noticed a sharp increase in seed/peer ratio and speed as well also capping ur upload to 75-80% percent of ur client default helps
also i uses sygate for firewall and avast4 for antivirus so when im d/l torrents i set firewall to allow all because avast has an on access scanner with a net shield i know works so no worries about security
[quote comment="26467"]How can i use the torrent client over the firewall? I want to use any torrent client at work in a broadband network protected with ISA firewall. I have no acces to firewall settings.[/quote]
unfortunately there is nothing u can do unless u cn specify open ports thru the firewall..u can do this with an active port scanner and the network server ip then specify ports in ur torrent client if it allows it
[quote comment="28905"]i used the patch no problem and noticed a sharp increase in seed/peer ratio and speed as well also capping ur upload to 75-80% percent of ur client default helps
also i uses sygate for firewall and avast4 for antivirus so when im d/l torrents i set firewall to allow all because avast has an on access scanner with a net shield i know works so no worries about security[/quote]
Sygate was discontinued after symantec bought it, this means there has been no updates for sometime and will not be any in the future. Although this was a great firewall in it’s day it should no longer be used as it is unsafe.
i was working my ass off to try the port forwarding thingy. i followed the instructions in portforward.com.one of the steps requires me to have a static ip.the problem i tried and failed configuring a static ip.then i checked my subscription and found out that the package i subscribed doent include a static ip.is that the reason i can get a static ip manually?if not,what can i do?
it doesn’t work please someone help me, i will give away any music video that i have if someone help me
You state ‘Do not use UseNeXT’
But I have found it to be fantastic. They have almost everything you could want on there. ALL files are split rar with par2’s. My stable download speed is 300k on a 2.3mb connection syncd at 2.9mb.
I dont mind paying about £9 for 20gb downloads / month at that speed!! Nice!
Give the free one a try, MAX bandwidth 3Gb for free. Torrents are so low in comparison! Plus… It’s 100% Anon!
Matt
this was really helpfull.. it did speed up my download a bit, but more importantly it was stable no more sudden surges of 0kb/s.. hehe thanks!!
cheers!
where do u change the maximum number of connections in bittorrent, its not in the settings, can’t find it, and is Utorrent maybe faster than bittorrent?
Guys Plz Help me , i’ve got internet at my office (broadband 128 kb) but it’s connected to all computer at my office , if download using download manager it’s fast, but when im using bittorrent it’s very slow (1kb/s) T_T …. tell me how to config. my bittorrent to download faster …. plzzzzzzz
( NB: I’m at Indonesia )
THX’S
HI all here’s an interesting one for you.
I was using firefox as my web browser, and I was getting no more than 5kb/s download speeds I started using Microsoft explorer again and my speed went right up to 50kb/s on three different downloads has any one else experienced this?
Thank you alot, for the patch. My torrent just dropped from 30 to 20 kBs. :(
please can anyone help me i trying to download anything i use bitcomet 0.81 windows xp sp2 media center 2002
my firewall turned off and i’ve use the tcp patch and change to 10, 50 ,80, 100, nothing works,, my downloading is 1kb to 15kb max i cant download anything,, please if someone can help me i would be very happy.. i have a good pc it new.. and i can’t do anythink please e:mail on p.stallard3@hotmail.com
if anyone can see this please help
if you need any more information ijust say i havn’t got a clue, i’ve format my hard drive tryed win98 winxp all of them i tryed comet 6 7 8 version still no good at this time my downloading is 2kb please help me
i have 8mb tiscali broadband at 4.9 mbps
charmQuote charm
“i was working my ass off to try the port forwarding thingy. i followed the instructions in portforward.com.one of the steps requires me to have a static ip.the problem i tried and failed configuring a static ip.then i checked my subscription and found out that the package i subscribed doent include a static ip.is that the reason i can get a static ip manually?if not,what can i do? ”
The portforward.com guide includes a link to a step by step procedure for setting up a static IP; you do NOT need to pay for a static IP from your ISP to do this…just follow the guide, it works.
-Drumbokas
hi 2 all.
hello world! It is nice site. Keep working!
best regards
i found you here http://google.com ^^
READ:
I guess I have the most formulated concept: That works miracles on private internal IPS from any broadband LAN ISPs, such as 192.168.0.79, 172.16.4.87, and so on.
STEPS TO FOLLOW TO MAXIMIZE THE “DOWNLOAD” PERFORMANCE IN AZUREUS:
1. Remember to have at least five to six upload pear clients in each download. CONCURRENCY FOR THE DOWNLOAD FORMULATIONS.
2. Remember each torrent’s max upload download limits to round to 0!!!! FOR MAXIMUM THROUGHPUT AFTER SOME MINUTES WHEN MORE PEERS JOIN IN.
3. Enable all peer sources and including the UPNP plugin.
4. Put on the Proxy: That’s mean it!!! Your own broadband login id and password and your ISP’s Primary LAN IP address, its handy to put on more effort for Average Accellaration and it might help.
5. Max simultaneous outbound connection attempts can be > 30.
6. Maximum Global Upload speed should be > 40 KB/s as it would give average formulated advantage when more peers connect, and then you can get average and better speeds almost continously! Less time taken to download anything.
7. Max connections globally: 250 or more depending on the Broadband bandwidth.
8. No limits on LAN max upload or download speeds. Must be 0 or unlimited to speed up the average downloading!!!!
9. Friendly hash checking: Untick because it could harm the average speed.
Respectively,
tushar
And remember, only Azureus and Windows XP is better when downloading huge dvds.
So i used the Event patch (opened up 10000) and my D/L speeds at my school just jumped from 0.2 kb/s to 25.5 kb/s
Gonna do some more but a def. improvement.
People are looking to forward a port on their router and are concerned that their service provider does not offer a static ip. The static ip that you need to set up is not between your service provider and your router, but between your router and your comp.
Set a static ip in your network config (you know -network connections- local area network – properties – internet protocol)
The reason that you port forward is because your router has a firewall and you are poking a hole through it so that you can pour downloads through it to your comp.
Also when changing router configs use internet explorer cause i swear noone wrote them to work with firefox.
Hope this helps
THY FOR THIS POST.
CHANGING MY MAX HALF OPEN CONNECTION NUMBER FROM 10 TO 50 – DOUBLED MY DOWNLOAD SPEED ON TORRENT.
THIS IS SMTH THAT ALL SHOULD DO.
_.;* -GrateFuLL- *;._
HELPFUL TIP: REALLY HELPS!!!! Try gradually incresing your upload speed until you get the highest donwload rate, when it starts going down back up a little, it helped me, i had upload to 35KB/s and was downloading at 29KB/s now i set upload to 60KB/s and am getting 100KB/s download! TRY! do not limit upload speeds. increase until its optimized =D
oh and im downloading an 8GB FILE! which is at 72.1% right now going 111KB/s =o all because i increased upload rate significantly.
my utorrent still hassn’t sped up when my upload rate is at 251kb/s per second and i don’t know what to do next,i just caught a stupid virus not long ago,and now i’ve had windows redone i’ve just done all this stuff,windows only has only been redone like last night and then it goes and changes files to different ones from a pontentially unsafe source,and the uttorent issn’t going any faster,please help
This guide did help me a bit but not much.
I setup my torrent program (uTorrent) in my ruter modem and that made a whole lot of difference. My speed went from 200kbps to 700kbps and uploading up to 80kbps.
Thanks for the ruter tips!
My connection is 20000kbps/2500kbps.
Maybe in the future i find some tips to speed it up more, but it depends much on the seeders and peers.
Anyway I am very pleased and can download torrents fast +surf the www +radio at the same time. And the speed is still 400kbps++ :D
I just tuned and joined a private torrent site. Oh my lord I just looked at the speed now. Its a wooping 1250kbps/40kbps. Did not now it was capable of going that high. Then I got 200+seeders and 3000+ peers. HUGE SPEED. LUCKY ME :D
Comodo is the most impressive firewall I’ve used so far, the “Pro” version is completely free. It asks you questions constantly for the first two days or so, which was really irritating, but if you tell it remember all of your responses, the “learning” mode it uses starts to handle everything the way that I wanted it to pretty quickly. So far as I know, it doesn’t block uTorrent, haven’t had any noticeable problems.
Can I just say that this article was very helpful to me. Unfortunately I am one of those users thats still on 512. Usually that means I can download at about 60k/s however I was only averaging 15k/s with bit torrent.
After doing the things described in this article I can now download up to my full bandwidth with bit torrent.
Thanks!
HELP!!!!
I have been to portforward.com but my d-link dwl-922 router is not on the list. I even went so far as to get pfconfig but what a waste as its not on there either (even when i update list). How do I forward my ports????
Any help appreciated thanx :S
[quote comment="85971"]HELP!!!!
I have been to portforward.com but my d-link dwl-922 router is not on the list. I even went so far as to get pfconfig but what a waste as its not on there either (even when i update list). How do I forward my ports????
Any help appreciated thanx :S[/quote]
go to the site of ur manufature and dl a .Pdf file from the router u have and there the information wil be !!
have fun and gl
hello every1 the best that i like and its lovely is mcafee secuirty center it is sych a kl software and it has firewall and everything u want built in it and thanks for the help…..:P:P:P
What I never understood is how programs like mIRC with XDCC Klipper allow me to get anywhere from 500kbps to 2mbps downloads per file, with 10 files downloading at the same time and torrent programs can only match p2p speeds.
emmmm i cant get this to wark at all my download speed is 7 kb itss sooooooo slow last time it took 4 days to download a rom can u help me
WOW this patch is the shizznit. my torrents are about 20 times faster than before!
turn off your firewall, my download speed went from 65Kbp to 71Kbp
Torrenting BG II: SoA & ToB.
80 peers, 35 seeds.
My speeds fluctuate from 10kbps to 50kbps, average being 25 or so.
I did the port forwarding, and he triggering. Using Windows 2k on an wireless network with 3 other computers, mine being the only torrenter. I just use the original Bittorrent. I can’t figure out how to manipulate anything to get anywhere higher than 50 kbps Dx
not work properly my utorrent the speed is too low 4-5 kbs / 0-1 kbs why ??
brilliant! quadrupled my download speed
I have a question… or more xD
What should be an ideal connection? At wich speed? :/ For down and uploading of course.
My internet connection is supposed to be 100 Mbps, but as far as I been reading there is a difference between “b” and “B” xD (bit and bytes I guess…)
So.. how much is 100 Mb in kB? I’m not so very good at these things, forgive me =(
One last question, how do I enable UPnP?
Many thanks.
Awesome it actually worked I changed my upload speed to 315 max and I get a 70 kbs download speed which is really high for BitTorrent!!
hey my bittorent client downloads goes up 140 days… haha wtf? i have to reformat my pc lol!
hmm i get 200 – 300 kb/s on torrents .. suddenly its limited to 20 kb/s :/ NOT THE TORRENT!!! anyone have any suggestions?
thanks
Ok, I am using microTorrent as a client on my xp sp2. Now the problem is that whenever I start downloading it slows the internet speeds to a crawl! I mean the entire network comes to a halt and I can no longer use the web. Even though microtorrent (utorrent) is downloading it really really slowly. I have to run it at night when everyone is sleeping. What to do about this? please email me directly my gmail account user id : arthur.orange
THanks!!
Hey, I’m doing a torrent and have been running it for several days. I know there are 700+ peers and 500+ are seeders. But when I open bittorrent, i get about 13 peers (12 seeds). I have done port forwarding and have upnp (unpn?) enabled. It appears that I am only downloading from one of my peers. Other people are getting 800kbps+ on this, anyone have any ideas?
I found a good way of getting max download speeds from Bitlord 1.1 with a 2mb net connection with isp Vigin media.
So please remember that this is jsut what i found by tweaking my settings i dont want some idiot replying saying my settings dont work.
Patched TCP file from EVIL )ty dude(
CONNECTION SETTINGS————–
Port 52525
Max Upload speed 10kb/s
Max Download speed 250kb/s
(importatant to cap ur download or u over use your bandwidth)
TASK SETTINGS——————–
PreAllocate Space – Yes
Minimun Upload Rate 5kb/s
ADV CONNECTION SETTINGS
FIRST 3 BOXES TICKED
MAX CONNECTIONS PER TASK – 70
HALF OPEN CONNECTIONS – 80
Hope this helps you guys
worked for me! from 0.00 to 180+
FANTASTIC :)))
))))))) CAN’T BELIEVE IT ))) ITS GETTING UP TO 300+ NOW …
how do i change my connectin back?
basicaly torrent speeds determine how many seeds/peers and how much they are allowing you to upload in speed, if your downloading something and the speeds are slow and dont pick up after 30mins then try downloading another torrent, i downloaded a movie that was going to take 7hours on my 20mb broadband, canceled, downloaded another torrent of the ame film and took just 40mins, although all the above can help (slightly) it is still all based on the seeds/peers you are downloading from.
“…Max Upload speed 10kb/s”
Bah-Humbug!! Don’t cap your Upload so much unless you have to! I get excellent speeds with Upload capped at 80. At this moment I am getting 300 down 60 up while torrenting two tv shows. I have a 5 megabit connection. I know you specified that you have “…a 2mb net connection” but 10k is to low IMO.
Play with your up cap, see what actually effects your down speed.
Outside of portforwarding (and encryption, damn you ISP!) the thing that has helped my speed the most is finding good trackers, lots of them…
FUCK YOU! i followed your guide exactly as it says and now it wont fucking download! go to hell
lanquage no swearing
lanquage i mean
no swearing
i thought this ment to be about aZureus cause i need some help
“your TCP connections are limited to a maximum of 10″
This is wrong XP doesnt limit ur tcp connections to 10, XP (from SP2) limits your Half-Open TCP connections to 10 (half-open TCP connections and TCP connections are 2 different things, search on wikipedia for a nice explanation), having this limit can reduce your P2P performance but its not always the case check if you have a lot of 4226 events in the Event Viewer (control pannel->administrative tools->eventviewer->system) if u have a lot of 4226 events(a lot per day, this means having 1 of those events per day isnt rly a problem) then: 1. u have a spyware, scan and search it; or 2. ur P2P activity is being limited by this limit and u need to apply the fix
please help me. when i open the patcher,it says cannot execute. 64-bit. please help
hey, my utorrent used to download at a max 150 kb/s , i dont know why but it suddenly went down to 30!!!
i dont know how to fix this, help!
[quote comment="221870"]hey, my utorrent used to download at a max 150 kb/s , i dont know why but it suddenly went down to 30!!!
i dont know how to fix this, help![/quote]
Dude you are sith sympatico… if yes we have the same problem it juste started a month ago
Ditto on the Sympatico thing…
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting!
You are a god among mere mortals
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
started fresh to torrent.iam verymuch confused to use this programe.and it is dam slow.help me please
Can any1 tell me how to increase dwnload speed of bitlord pro….
I’m using the VPN service to speed up my download speeds. Cause of encryption it’s a little bit more traffic, but i enjoy it truly. – http://www.strongvpn.com, not the traffic but the speed
using the VPN service is going to be the easiest way of speeding up the torrents. Also on the http://www.strongvpn.com I’ve got the static ip. Hope it will help u ;)
am i did all that posts? time to go sleep
have dial up and i am in australia using utorrent and wondering how to speed the download process up i have no firewall and cant download any faster than 4kb/s i have altered some setting that has improved things slightly just wondering if anyone can give me the settings that they may be using with dial up and getting better speeds
thanks for the tips..i’ll try em out..anywayy i guess my isp was ryt in terms of upload speeds :)
PeerGuardian 2 :) …
People,some of you may not benefit from this because of your ISP,some ISP(s) slow down p2p programs,this is known as throttling.To see whether you ISP throttles p2p programs,type in your isp name into wikipedia.Thanks!
how i know my (isp) name ?
Can anyone help me to decide which of the torrent downloader version is better for a movie downloader….
Well i would also like to say that can anybody provide me a way to log into http://www.desitorrents.com , they r not allowin new members 2 join now a days,,,,,,,,,,……….
rishidevdas@yahoo.co.in
I just downloaded the patch and now my internet isn’t working properly. Can anyone tell me how to reverse the patch because it is really peeing me off now
[quote comment="55559"]HELPFUL TIP: REALLY HELPS!!!! Try gradually incresing your upload speed until you get the highest donwload rate, when it starts going down back up a little, it helped me, i had upload to 35KB/s and was downloading at 29KB/s now i set upload to 60KB/s and am getting 100KB/s download! TRY! do not limit upload speeds. increase until its optimized =D[/quote]
Well it’s no joke…..it helped me big…..no my stuff its toppin out at 130kB/s….thanks a lot man…..
I applied the patch and followed these tweaks and only saw a small improvement.
Then i found another.
In advanced settings, Try changing the peer.disconnect_inactive_interval from 300 to 600 and the peer.lazy_bitfield to FALSE.
My download instantly jumped from 25kB up to 120kB.
Thanks for all the tips guys. Torrents are much more bearable now!
my bitorrent speeds are faster than firefox download manager for some reason my firfox downloading is slow like 100kb/s and torrent speed some times reah 1mb/s then stays at 600kb/s
Ok before you guys freak out over how the speeds are being killed just remember that running the patch again can restore your old settings. Read the instructions for once in a while.
I came across a useful little program today which increased my download rate from 40kb/s to 80kb/s. Try is out, not sure how it works, if anyone could tell me then thanks :)
http://shareme.com/details/bittorrent-speedup-pro.html
Hello there,
I really appreciate all your tips but it seems that whatever happens i will still have very low download speeds in U Torrent :(
- I’m using U Torrent 1.7.7
- I’ve foreworded the port which is 45682 successfully
i have a 1 Mbit connection
- I’m using Windows XP SP2 ( i’ve removed the XP Download-speed limit as i installed the patch that you gaev to us )
-I’ve enabled the Encrypting thing as well
-I’m downloading files with thousands of seeders and leechers
but i still get the maximum speed of around 15 KB/S which is unfair
any suggestions ?
Thanx alot in advanced
-Hammoda-
dont forget to check out http://metorrents.com
torrent freak hi
i am usuing utorrentand i did all the steps you said but nothing happend my speed still remained 0 kbps please will you post or send me a mail in nishranth_saravanan@yahoo.com sending all the tricks
I followed this guide years ago and saw absolutely no difference. I found out that was because I was with Tiscali Broadband (UK) who are AWFUL with capping traffic.
I’ve recently moved to sky after re-installing windows xp mce sp2 (moved back from vista) and noticed some really nice speeds, due to now no capping and a faster internet connection. I had forgotten about the connection limit in XP, so I installed that patch again and my speeds have quadrupled. Thank you!
Got lots of infos
Thanx….
To 231-NIshranth:
U must start downloading something if u want to go above 0Kb/sec ;p
Very simple way to spee up torrents.
SEED
If everyone seded there downloads, even just for a day after ccompletion then everyone speeds would increase. Some progams actually limit your DL speed if your share rate i not high enough. EEmporium.com checks and limits you to seed only until you share enough to be fair. Good idea
Hey way about windows vista TCP?? should i change it so it has like alot say around 2000 connections?
I’m disappointed that Lifehacker points to a site that is distributing a virus!!
Hi My ISP block p2p sharing from 6am to 6 pm and I cant download torrent at this times ! so is there any way to solve this problem???
They told me not to do it.
I was downloading at 200kb/s but, i changed my port now im downloading at 20kb/s… anyone know a good port?
so am i right in saying tht the less seeds and less peers u have means ure downloads will be faster?
i changed the hacking thingy from 10 to 80….i use bitlord to download…after i made the change my download speed went from the 50kbps to 160kbps plus!!!!
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