By
Felix Ker on September 10, 2007
There’s a hell load of people in this Internet community asking why is their torrent file downloading at such a slow speed despite having a 6mbps Internet. Inspired by BlueJar’s How-To Group Writing Project I’m writing this “How-To” entry to help you speed up your torrent downloads.
Before we actually start with configuring to speed up, there are several things you have to know.
- Internet speed. Don’t be confused by the speed you are connected from your LAN (Ethernet) port to your modem/router. That is NOT your Internet speed. Look at the package you subscribed with your Internet Service Provider (ISPs). You should be able to know the speed. Example will be: 5mbps download / 512kbps upload. (Note the ‘mbps’/'kbps’ – the ‘b’ in small letters actually means bits and not bytes.)
- Router? Are you using a router? If you are, you probably have to know the model of your router and forward the port correctly. [We'll be covering this at a later part]
- Firewall. Remember to allow the port that you’re going to set later on.
- Your favourite bittorrent client. There are so many programs released in the market. But which is your favourite? Choose your favourite and let’s go! (Note that I’m only showing screenshots for BitComet & uTorrent.)
- Seeds. The number of seeds that’s actually seeding the torrent; the more the merrier. If there are many torrents for a particular download you’re interested in, be sure you get the right one. [Refer to screenshot]
- I think that’s all you need to know to start speeding up. Fire your favourite torrent client and let’s go!
I must mention that downloading of copyrighted materials is illegal. Happy downloading!
Page 1 – General
Page 2 – BitComet Custom Settings
Page 3 – uTorrent Custom Settings
Page 4 – Other BitTorrent client settings
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This i definately going to help me speed up my downloads .
Interested to know, what is the top speed anyone has hit?
Let’s see who has the biggest… (internet connection).
I get … 600 kB in and out on a good day (but I usually cap it so it’s more like 50)
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Hey brother am a fellow singaporean but am a nub with internet stuff
so the deal is that am using an ultimate plan
using a 3 com 2crwer100-75 model router…
what should my settings be
it seems my port is not open and i am downloading very slow
please forgive this computer idiot
cheers
Torrents aren’t as safe as they used to be. I’ve hear lots of people recently are getting caught downloading popular movies.
So, i think that using of VPN is better.
More trackers, more trackers mean more seeds and thus more speed. Go to http://torrents.iza.co.za/tracker_finder.php to find more trackers for any torrent. (A fault with the form there is that you can’t hit enter on your keyboard, you must click on the find button)
You can also calculate optimal settings that will speed up your client with their speed calculator at http://torrents.iza.co.za/speed_calc.php
There is also some other tips on speeding up your torrent as well as tutorials about creating torrents etc.
Thats great
I have found one more way hope it help you
http://www.gupshupblog.com/2009/05/increase-utorrent-speed-with-screenshots-expalined/
I browse and saw you website and I found it very interesting.Thank you for the good work,
greetings, Mike.
if you have router make sure that you have Wifi security ON like WEP!
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first of all make sure that you have low upload speed, i set 6kb/s and it’s really helped me!
thanks guys for a very useful comments! Today i set WEP Security in my router ))
other than the suggestions u mentioned above, i also recommend dsl speed which can boost ur internet connection somehow
Hey,there, i’ve come across a speed up software which runs so well.
Or U can have a try.
DSL Speed, it is really cool~~
boomanthrakali-shagarmanthrakali!!!