Approving your torrent speed

[Heathen]

I would like to know how to improve the speed of my torrent downloads. I use µTorrent and I just wanted to know how to make it faster.

[Zeph]

Find faster seeds.

[Heathen]

is their anything else I can do? I have heard of port forwarding or w/e but I know crap about how to go about doing that.

What is the average speed and if mine is well below it, what might I do to make it go faster, or stop slowing it down.

E: did a thing...says that my port isn't open. How do?

E: k, my thing stays around 5-10kB/s sometimes it will spike to 20-30kB/s but then falls.

is that good? Doubt it.

[LinkandKvel]

Congratulations! Your torrent has been approved by LinkandKvel!

[Cortexian]

I downloaded a torrent last night at upwards of 350kB/s so no, that isn't good. Go to www.portforward.com (http://www.portforward.com) to find out how to forward the required ports for your Torrent client. And also try to download torrents that have more seeders than leachers, that will greatly increase your download speed.

[Heathen]

Yeah, it reffered me there. Ima check it out.

Thing is I am close to retarded at some things. Real close.

Soooo, if I need help I will come to you guys to dumb it down for me. Real down.

[Zeph]

O_o

Port forwarding is for your router to know which computer on the network it needs to send incomming traffic to. If your torrents work at all, they wont "approve" to a higher speed.

[Heathen]

:saddowns:

ok, so I am stuck with shitty speeds?

[LinkandKvel]

Make sure you dont have like 50 programs running while your downloading.

[Heathen]

its the only thing besides pidgin.

[Zeph]

:saddowns:

ok, so I am stuck with shitty seeds?

ftfy

You cant get good speeds on a torrent without good seeders. You're not downloading from a server, someone else is uploading to you.

[Heathen]

k, well I have 19 seeds and 17 peers, and it says 2970 seeders and 4534 leechers.

To me with my limited knowledge thinks that sounds pretty damn good.

[Sel]

Most torrents are going to go slowly, its just how they roll.

[Heathen]

Fuck...I meant improving btw.

but shit...isnt that really slow? I am usually at about 10 kB/s.

Why am I so slow?

[Sel]

The most you can really do is set your bandwidth use to max :\

[Cortexian]

The torrent you're downloading has more leachers than seeders so it's going to go slower than if those numbers were reversed. Try using uTorrent, I found that it improved my speeds the most over all the other clients I tried.

[Zeph]

k, well I have 19 seeds and 17 peers, and it says 2970 seeders and 4534 leechers.

To me with my limited knowledge thinks that sounds pretty damn good.

There are 2k seeds and 4.5k leeches that are peers on the torrent network. However, you've only got 20 seeds and 17 peers in your local swarm. They're the only ones you're connected to.

[Saggy]

The torrent you're downloading has more leachers than seeders so it's going to go slower than if those numbers were reversed. Try using uTorrent, I found that it improved my speeds the most over all the other clients I tried.
See:

I would like to know how to improve the speed of my torrent downloads. I use µTorrent and I just wanted to know how to make it faster.

Also, that was the exact same problem I was having when I used uTorrent, my speeds were shitty. I switched over to Azureus, started the same torrent, and immediatly noticed my speeds improving. Don't know why. You also want to make sure you're uploading at a fairly decent speed too, because the more you share, the more you receive. Use THIS (http://www.speedtest.net/) site to see what your approximate upload speed is and set your upload limit to about 10% of that.

Make sure that the tracker that you are getting the torrent from is not a "VIP" tracker, meaing you have to be signed up for the site. Some of those trackers include:

vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org
demonoid trackers
moviex trackers (Get rid of this tracker on any torrent immediatly as this tracker does not let you download if you do not pay for there service)

And of course there is the Seed:Leachers ratio. You always want to try and get a torrent that has more seeds than leechers.

[Heathen]

OK,

Limiting your upload speed is by far the most important suggestion, and was also mention by Olivier Chalouhi in our previous BitTorrent speed guides. The rationale behind it is simple. Your connection is a tube (sort of), if you max out the upload capacity, the tube gets clogged.

Choose the correct maximum number of connections
Too much connections can actually slow down your torrents, instead of increasing the download speed. The uTorrent speed guide (Options > Speed Guide in uTorrent) automatically recommends the ideal settings. For users with a maximum upload speed of 256 kbit/sec, uTorrent suggests a maximum of 35 connections per torrent, and 60 in total.

I took a test and It came up as 52kB/s

What do I put as my connection type. It told me to put whats closest to that. Should I list the options? Damn I feel dumb.

[Heathen]

POST AGAIN!

Their was a thing with xpsp2 which is what I have. I got a thing for it and now its faster.

I get up to 50-7o kB/s which makes me a happy panda.

[Timo]

I get up to 400kb/s all the way down in NZ D: Although the max upload I can get is around 5kb/s.

[Heathen]

I am getting 100 or so now.

[Kalub]

Mine usually start like a roller coaster....


1kbp/s-2kbp/s-4kbp/s-16kbp/s-32kbp/s-64kbp/s-128kbp/s-256kbp/s+


And then I go to sleep.

[FluffyDucky™]

I use BitComet, think a cracked version tbh. My average download speed is around 500kb/s, lowest being around 100.

http://www.hivclan.net/hivshack/images/7qtcx7bcgtz9hsxu8ake.png

http://www.hivclan.net/hivshack/images/m84j1zm9i4cov6yp9u.png

Yay 4 cracked version giving me 1337 optionz!

e: tbh the program is free, must have been modified so not exactly piracy for ppl wondering. :)

[Cortexian]

e: tbh the program is free, must have been modified so not exactly piracy for ppl wondering. :)
The stuff you're downloading CERTAINLY isn't piracy at all.

Looks similar to my uTorrent window atm though... :eyesroll:

[FluffyDucky™]

I renamed the files to make lulz.... :ssh:

[Cortexian]

I renamed the files to make lulz.... :ssh:
Liar.

Anyways, I typically hit speeds like the following picture per torrent:
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6328/utorrentspeedsog4.jpg

And I just started up uTorrent with those two for an example, as you can tell by the speed graph.


I think I've got the same WALL-E file name...

[FluffyDucky™]

D:

-1mb/s for you.

[Cortexian]

D:

-1mb/s for you.
I fixed my post so it's kinda more on topic.

[Saggy]

Hey Freelancer, can you post your settings? I could never get uTorrent to download at those speeds for me.

[FluffyDucky™]

Lmao you stealing my downloads Xero!

[Heathen]

Dude...I am back down to ten >.>
E: Back up!


Must just be the torrent lol.

[Kalub]

Nah, its just people like Ducky leeching. Fucking leechers.....

[Timo]

Hey Freelancer, can you post your settings? I could never get uTorrent to download at those speeds for me.

I get the same speeds as Freelancer, and all my settings are default, except I changed my open port.

[Cortexian]

Hey Freelancer, can you post your settings? I could never get uTorrent to download at those speeds for me.
All default except I'm using a manual "static" port, max download rate is infinite, max 10 downloads at once, upload is capped at 50kb/s (because my connection upload is only 512kb/s and I host server shit, not cause I'm a lameleacher).

[Dr Nick]

O_o

Port forwarding is for your router to know which computer on the network it needs to send incomming traffic to. If your torrents work at all, they wont "approve" to a higher speed.
Well, there are ways of improving the speed.

IE, allowing more connections, changing other things like increasing the number of simultaneous piece downloads, etc.

[Gamerkd16]

Is anyone noticing 0 seeds, and 0 peers, for almost all the sites on Torrentz.com? Or is that just me?

E: nevermind

[JunkfoodMan]

Some ISPs throttle torrent speeds, and if you're like me the speeds will reach around 350 kb/s after 12am or so.