Vercetti Thug Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Title? I'm downloading a torrent and I want to know if I can make it go faster (I heard changing bandwidth allocation helps?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Google? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I use the following settings and am able to max out my connection (I thankfully have an ISP that doesn't throttle any traffic that isn't over HTTP which is awesome), especially when downloading from private trackers. Keep default on everything except the following: Connection Always use the same port, and make sure it's a value over 50000 Bandwidth Global max number of connections = 2000 Maximum number of connected peers per torrent = 200 (this value should be 10% of whatever the above value is, so in this case, 200) Number of upload slots per torrent = 10 BitTorrent Under Protocol Encryption, make sure it is set to "Enabled", also check the box to allow incoming legacy connections. There's advanced settings that you can change which you can find from googling. I'm on an 8mb connection at home and can max it out using the above setting changes. If you have a slow connection you may want to reduce the global max num of connections, and thus the setting after too. Hope that helps anyone else who was wondering about their uTorrent settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstarrem Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 For bandwidth I just add a 0 to the end of every numeric value. Have encryption enabled and have my port always over 60000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vercetti Thug Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 DIdnt go up much after i followed Chris's instructions to the letter (thanks by the way man), (I set it 55000) and did everything else exactly what Chris said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I use to get pretty badass torrent speeds, mainly back in the days of BitTorrent. Now, however, I'm using uTorrent, also. Which, btw, is a pretty decent program. However, I get fucked speeds. Recently I have gotten a few torrents to hit 250kb/s..... And almost hit 300.... But that's it. Maximum. Sometimes I sit there and watch it go at 10kb/s..... I've tried EVERYTHING I could find on Google. Port-forwarding, I've tried like 5 or 6 different settings I found on Google. Fucking nothing works for me. Then again, I have shitty internet from apparently shitty people. We switched from Brighthouse to Adelphia a few years back, and they blow. Then Comcast bought them out, did shit all to the company or service, and they still blow. Now my family((and probably most of Florida)) think Comcast sucks, because down here it's just bought-out Adelphia service and quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vercetti Thug Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 250?! Are you @#(*ING KIDDING? I get like 5.0 k/b a second average, even with these settings in this topic. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_homer Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I usually get 70 kb/s and im cool with that. But 5 kb/s? You got something wrong probably... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vercetti Thug Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 Oh that's helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damjan Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 are there enough seeders? if there are, use this please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I usually get 70 kb/s and im cool with that. But 5 kb/s? You got something wrong probably... I've gotten 5b/s before...... Yes.... No kilo about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpilk901 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I just really depends on the amount of seeders seeding at the time your downloading and if there are loads your download speed will go as fast as it can to get the download but the uploaders on the other side might have slow upload speed? I hope that wasn';t confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I've gotten like, 20kb/s download speeds with 50+ seeders on. WTF is up with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 On public trackers there are generally hundreds if not thousands of peers for popular stuff. This means that the seeders are usually uploading to loads of different people at once... and unless they've got a decent uplink then it's just gonna be normal DSL/Cable speeds which suck. Try and get into some private trackers where a lot of people use "seedboxes" (server dedicated to downloading torrents and then seeding them for long periods of time on 100mbit lines), you can get awesome speeds. When I say max out my connection, I'm usually getting 700-800kb/s. At uni where I share a 20mb cable connection, I can often get up to 1.7MB/s. On public trackers I never get speeds above 400-500kb/s no matter how fast my internet. @Vercetti Thug: What speed is your internet connection? Also, what ISP are you with? It's possible they throttle all traffic which isn't HTTP (normal website stuff). However, those are still some really lame speeds you're getting regardless of any throttling going on. How many seeds and peers does the torrent you're currently downloading have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRX22B1998 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 (edited) sometimes it just depends on the seed/leech ratio. if theres 100 seeds, and theres 10000 leech (10000 people downloading) then its gonna be slower than one with say 100 seeds and 100 leech. what speeds did you get on speedtest.net ? look at what your upload speed is on there then divide it by 10 and put it as your max upload speed. also is the port your using open? look in the bottom panel and there'll be either a green tick, a yellow exclamation triangle, or a red circle with exclamation (!). if its the red one, then people arent able to connect to you which will limit your upload speed, which will in turn limit your download speed. Maybe your ISP is throttling (speed limiting) your bit-torrent traffic... its possible. I got around a 7mbit connection, my torrent speeds, the max i saw it on was like 350kb/s... Edited March 28, 2009 by WRX22B1998 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I keep hearing about private trackers. Where does one find these super-awesome private trackers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRX22B1998 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 you have to be invited to them i think... also you gotta usually keep some ratio going, not sure the exact ratio but, eg if you download 1gb you have to seed 2gb. i never bothered with them cos with download at ~7000kbps and upload at ~256kbps seeding to get ratio proper will take ages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 That's why you just seed 24/7. Limit/stop the torrents when you actually need to use your internet. Most open registrations for a very/extremely limited time period. Or as promotional events, so you just gotta keep checking them. Though if you know really cool people then you may well be able to get an invite to one Most just want you to keep a positive ratio, i.e. 1.00 or greater. Which is piss easy to get and keep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Just download overnight, or at any offpeak time. If I run torrents during the day, I get about 5kbps. At night (i.e now) I'm hitting about a 200kbps average, from my shitty net connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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