Thread: Faster Torrents

well, assuming you've forwarded the relevant ports if your behind a router / firewall
it's entirely dependant on the number of peers

if there's one seeder and 1000 leachers, then it will be slow until a good proportion of the torrent is distributed around

I have the same thing. And I have not forwarded any of the ports.
Because I dont know how.

Originally Posted by magical mike

I have the same thing. And I have not forwarded any of the ports.
Because I dont know how.

easiest way is to use uPNP
as it does it automatically without any user action

goto your routers settings
(usually they have a web interface thing)
enable uPNP on the router

then enable UPNP in your torrent client

when your torrent client starts up,
it'll ask the router (using uPNP) to forward the ports to your machine

oh thanks ynot

I've found that uTorrent goes about 10 times faster than Bittorrent, so that's one bottleneck you may have if you use Bittorrent.

I'm bumping this because I need more help.
I've forwarded my port for uTorrent but things are still going slow, even with minimal leechers.
Anything I can do to speed things up?

Probably just some bad seeds mate.

Originally Posted by esfx

I've found that uTorrent goes about 10 times faster than Bittorrent, so that's one bottleneck you may have if you use Bittorrent.

Yea just use uTorrent. Much better torrent and I use it. You can go on YouTube and find a video that you can edit the settings on it to make it somewhat faster.

Apparently port forwarding takes a little while to take effect, because now im downloading much faster than before.

That's usually how most torrent client work. Slow at first, then it slowly picks up speed.

Download popular things like Kate Perry.

I use Deluge, and I can see a huge increse in speeds, up to 145kbs.

In all honesty, screw torrents. They're slow. Learn to use Usenet, maybe get a paid provider (for $/€ 10 a month you're careless, or maybe your ISP's even got a free one). Read up on it.

Trust me. You will in 99.9% of the cases download full-speed (I hardly drop below 12 MB/s, then again, I am on a 120 Mbit downlink line. But even with my old 8/1 line I got my full potential of ~980 kb/s) and once you learn how to use stuff like QuickPar (to repair incomplete files) you'll be careless when it comes to downloads. It's well worth the silly price of €10/$10/whatever floats your boat a month (or even free in some cases).

Downside, compared to torrents? Retention. Usenet servers usually have ~100 days retention, meaning anything uploaded more than 100 days ago is no longer available. But anything uploaded within the past 100 days is full-speed heaven.

There really isn't a way to speed up torrents, aside from simply finding ones with a good ratio. There's a chance your ISP is blocking your P2P ports, especially if you've previously received letters about your activities. Usenet is a good option, but the downsides are things such as download limits, and, as TweaK said, retention times. Also, Usenet is more for things such as movies, TV shows, etc..., when torrents get a lot more dumps for games, software, and other misc stuff.

http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents/

Originally Posted by Taosaur

http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents/

Most of that is basic things you should be already doing, such as using a non-blocked port, or capping upload during downloads. uTorrent even has an option to change the upload cap when downloading and after, so you can make it unlimited after it's done. By the way, none of that is really going to make a drastic change, anyway. I've done all of it, torrents are still, well, torrents.

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

Most of that is basic things you should be already doing, such as using a non-blocked port, or capping upload during downloads. uTorrent even has an option to change the upload cap when downloading and after, so you can make it unlimited after it's done. By the way, none of that is really going to make a drastic change, anyway. I've done all of it, torrents are still, well, torrents.

Yeah, the "basic things you should be already doing" are pretty much the sum total of what you can control. That and buy more bandwidth.

Not really. Unless you're on <3 Mbit internet or so, getting a faster internet connection isn't gonna fix anything but torrents you're already capped on. Ie, going from a 5 Mbit to a 10 Mbit internet connection isn't gonna fix 10 kb/s torrents and magically make them go 1,25 MB/s (ie 10 Mbit). It's only gonna work for torrents you're reaching your limit on and have the potential to reach higher speeds (lest you upgrade your internet connection obviously).

Originally Posted by TweaK

Not really. Unless you're on <3 Mbit internet or so, getting a faster internet connection isn't gonna fix anything but torrents you're already capped on. Ie, going from a 5 Mbit to a 10 Mbit internet connection isn't gonna fix 10 kb/s torrents and magically make them go 1,25 MB/s (ie 10 Mbit). It's only gonna work for torrents you're reaching your limit on and have the potential to reach higher speeds (lest you upgrade your internet connection obviously).

Yeah, buying more bandwidth only helps if you...don't have enough bandwidth.

Congratulations, Mr. Obvious, I'm promoting you to Lt. Colonel.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

That and buy more bandwidth.

You're making it seem like buying more bandwith is always an option.

So you can go all "Mr. Obvious" on me, but all in all, you're just being an asshat. Way to go. You must be so proud of yourself.

Originally Posted by TweaK

You must be so proud of yourself.

Kinda

If someone who wasn't consistently a smart-ass had made that clueless post, I probably would have let it slide. I was giving the OP the benefit of the doubt re: basic arithmetic.

I am at least honoured you seem to be following my posts. Autographs are not available at this point in time.

Buying more bandwith is not an option for me. Taosaur, your point...is invalid.

Originally Posted by [SomeGuy]

Buying more bandwith is not an option for me. Taosaur, your point...is invalid.

Yeah, I would hope anyway that no one would buy more bandwidth just for torrents--you'd have to be one hell of a pirate to make it worthwhile. My point originally was not that you should get more bandwidth, but that once you've set up the basics, the rest is out of your control.