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.
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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
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