How do i maximise the download speed of torrents?

Question

I download torrents using utorrent. I ussually get a speed of about 30 kb/s in the mornings and about 5-10 kb/s in the evenings.

I have a pretty good internet connection so that isnt the problem. I turn of all my other programs when im downloading. I download popular torrents which have lots of seeders, but nevertheless my max download speed has been about 60, buts its ussualy 30...and only in the mornings.

How do i maximise it? Im not brilliant with computers so please explain well what to do :P THANKS ALOT !!!

Answer 1

First get a speet test:



http://www.speedguide.net/



If your Download speed goes up to 60.

You probably must be having a 512kb connection. This is normal , the max is always 60 to 70 kbps.

If its 30. Its a 256 Kbps Connection.



Try Optmising your TCP/IP!

Here is a Software that might help you out!

Download SG TCP Optimizer



Link: http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php



Hope I Helped You Out

Bye!

Answer 2

TO start with make sure you are using a good torrent client.

I use Bittorent and very happy with it. I know uTorrent is also very popular. So, I suggest that you go with one of those.

Next important item is the removal of the 10 connection limit from TCP.

This will prevent you from making more than 10 connection at a time and slow down your ability to download torrents. There are few different utilities you can use. I used TCP-Z and set it to 254 and that appears to work for me fine.

Next item to hit is your settings in your torrent client.

If you don't make these changes your torrent will client will slow down your PC where you wont be able to do anything else while your client is running.

Specifically change the following:

Under Connection:

enable UPnP port mapping

enable NAT-PMP port mapping

Add Windows firewall exception

Under Bandwidth:

Limit the upload rate to 15

Set Max download rate to 0 (unlimited)

Set max number of connections to 225

Max. connections per torrent to 50

Number of upload slots per torrent to 5

In Queuing:

Max number of active torrents: 25

Max number of active download 20



I have a 10.Mbit connection and with these settings I can regularly download 10 files or so simultaneously with a total download rate of 500 to 750 KB/sec.

You may want to reduce or increase the settings as per available bandwidth.

Answer 3

Use Azureus for your torrent program and download from links that have a lot of seeds and peers. Also, check to see if options are set to unlimited speeds for downloading.

Answer 4

There's lots of factors that influence your speed.



Firstly you should do a test to see what your broadband speed is. I do presume your using broadband. The important thing is, although you may pay for a certain amount of speed, e.g. 8MB, you often usually don't get the full speed. There's many factors involved, including distance from exchange line, wiring and so on. Try http://www.speedtest.net/ to see how fast your net is.



If your running a router, you may need to forward a port, which should give you more speed. Click on this link http://portforward.com/guides.htm and choose your router, then choose utorrrent.

Answer 5

I also have a good connection and find by far the best time for doing this is around 11.30pm and onwards!



Especially if its for movies, you'll find that a lot of the people who r the bests for speeds r other countrys and they r on different times from us. Basically try uploading later at nite, and you'll c a massive change in speeds.



My speeds went from 30kbs to 200-500kbs, well worth it :)



Hope this Helps (Try it)

Answer 6

There's quite a few way to increase your speed, just youtube "Faster torrent downloads".



If your willing to throw a few bucks, there's www.TorrentRun.com, that let you run your torrent on there fast servers and pickup the files from anywhere when there done downloading it.

Answer 7

There's lots of factors which affect download speeds. Have a read of this :-)

Answer 8

Go to uTorrent, and see if they have any tutorials or Q & A. They should, I use mainly Transmissions and they have a good support section.