Comments on: 10 Ways To Speed Up Torrent Downloads

By: JASEEM

JASEEM — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:50:53 +0000

Its really good,thaks

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:55:39 +0000

I hope you turn the UL speed back to ‘unlimited’ or whatever after the download is finished otherwise it’s not a very nice tip

By: Joe Hill

Joe Hill — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:00:58 +0000

Thanks man, great guide. Enabling outgoing encyption instantly brought me from less than 120kb/s to a constantly 280!

By: AmBrew

AmBrew — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:09:58 +0000

Awesome guide ! After changing some options which you stated my DL jumped from 15kbs to 190kbs ! ! My 3gig DL isnt gonna take 2 weeks anymore. <3

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By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:14:13 +0000

I prefer Sharezilla.

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By: who cares

who cares — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:19:51 +0000

nice post. i’ll try this too =)

By: tony

tony — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:20:25 +0000

i am a little new to torrents but i am running utorrent and bit torrent i use the same torrent download on both programs and split the files for both. this seems to help the files out.

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By: Saikat

Saikat — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:18:49 +0000

Thanks…I follow the tip you mentioned…though I preferably do not download split and rar-ed files.

By: Drake Mallard

Drake Mallard — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:41:49 +0000

Interesting tips.

For movies, I’d recommend using VideoLan to watch the a partially downloaded file, so you can check what is really coming down to you hard disk.

I remember this one time when an allegedly piece of software turned out to be a XXX movie. (Which I erased immediately, of course).

Not really a speed-up tip itself, but can save your time and bandwith for other downloads.

By the way… What is it with all this CSI fever about which text is hiding in the blurred image?

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By: penguinfcker

penguinfcker — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:37:07 +0000

y’all should try Deluge. it’s an underappreciated but kickass torrent client. fast, lightweight core functionality with extensibility via optional plugins. its claim to fame is being notably resistant to Comcast’s torrent throttling.

By: RobotTank

RobotTank — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:18:01 +0000

number three shows some blurred out text. It’s not blurred out good enough. The movie is Seven Pounds and the one with the highest seeds reads “Seven Pounds[2008]DvDrip-aXXo”

Not that it’s a surprise that the highest seeds of a dvdrip belong to aXXo. Point is blur a little more guys

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By: muze

muze — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:21:38 +0000

Biggest help for torrent downloading behind a router, open the port you’re using in step #6 on your router. This can mean the difference between 60 and 600KBps easily.

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By: João Pereira

João Pereira — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:19:17 +0000

The item number 7, Increase the number of Max Half Open TCP connections, is only for windows XP. For vista see the following: Site 1 Site 2

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By: Paul Dong

Paul Dong — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:01:55 +0000

Good work! But does anyone have tips about how to tweak Vuze under Leopard?

I found Vuze to be much faster than any other client i use on Mac, but i don’t know why.

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By: Ben Jones

Ben Jones — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:14:26 +0000

It’s funny, you have a section at the end called ’some common sense’ but haven’t used any when making your guide. Specifically point 7.

But that’s a bummer for torrent speeds as torrents too need a large number of simultaneous connections.

is the bas assumption
It does, yes, but 8 connections being established at any one time is PLENTY. At best, you’ll gain by this 5-8 seconds over the ENTIRE torrent, all in the first 60 seconds. On the other hand, the amount of people that need help with their system, because they’ve applied this ‘patch’ (needlessly) and its screwed up their TCP stack, means theres often quite a few every day that come to the µTorrent IRC channel, looking for help.

This ‘patch’ doesn’t help, and isn’t needed, unless your connection is over 50Mbit upload, where it MIGHT be needed.

Go ahead giving bad advice though, because what does it matter to you? Its people like me, and the utorrent support staff that end up cleaning up your mess.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:26:04 +0000

Something to note, though most modern torrent clients allow “selective downloading” of files (I.E. pick what you want only) – this hurts the torrent life as a whole….for example, if everyone is just loading up the latest “Boy Band torrent, and selecting to download only “That Hit Song They Heard on MTV”…..