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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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?
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