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gaggan4392

Speedup Torrent downloads.
1. Cap your upload (most important)

Limit your upload speed to approximately 80 percent of your maximum upload rate. You can check your upload speed over here (never trust your isp). Once you know your maximum upload speed, change the max upload (to 80%) speed in your torrent client’s preferences.

Don’t get me wrong, everyone should share as much as possible, but if your upload rate reached it’s max, your download rate suffers significantly.

2. Hack the max TCP connections

If you’re on XP sp2, your TCP connections are limited to a maximum of 10. This seriously hurts your downloading speed because it wont let you connect to a high amount of ip numbers. It is supposed to slow down viruses because their spreading strategy is to connect to a high amount of ip numbers, but it also cripples your torrent downloads.
A nice way to fix this is to download this patch, it allows you to set the maximum allowed connections to any number you want. Any number between 50 and 100 is ok (more on this).

3. Check seeds and peers

A simple tip, but o so important. Always look for torrents with the best seed/peer ratio. The more seeds (compared to peers) the better (in general). So 50 seeds and 50 peers is better than 500 seeds and 1000 peers. So, be selective.

4. Change the default port.

By default, BitTorrent uses a port 6881-6999. BitTorrent accounts for a lot of the total internet traffic (1/3), so isp’s like to limit the connection offered on the these ports. So, you should change these to another range. Good clients allow you to do this, just choose anything you like. If you’re behind a router, make sure you have the ports forwarded or UPnP enabled.

5. Disable Windows Firewall

It sucks. Windows Firewall hates P2P and often leads a life of it’s own. So disable it and get yourself a decent firewall, Kerio or Zone Alarm for example.

Last but not least… Buy a faster connection…



Warnings for a torrent.
Downloading torrents can slow your computer down depending on how well your computer performs. Recommended specs for each client vary, but on average you should have at least 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz CPU. You will also need space for the files you want to save.

In certain jurisdictions it is illegal to download content through peer to peer networks such as bittorrent. There is a program which blocks certain IP addresses from communicating with your computer and can help protect you while downloading. PeerGuardian can be found at: phoenixlabs.org/pg2or [1]

Keep your anti-virus program and its definitions fully up-to-date, downloaded software from 'sharing' sources carries a high risk of infection.
Downloading torrents can slow your overall internet connection down if you don't properly tweak your upload rate. DSL and Cable modems have problems downloading if you're uploading at your maximum rate. Set your clients maximum rate to 80% of your maximum upload rate if you can adjust it. If you set your upload rate too low, your downloads will slow to a crawl.

It's important to know about bittorrents so that you know the risks, consequences, and best practices.


Tips for a Torrent
You can close your torrent program and turn off your computer when you need to. Most torrent programs will resume download process automatically when you start them back up. If the download doesn't resume automatically, there should be an option to start downloading, by either right clicking on the file and choose "Start" or a button somewhere in the program.

There are other torrent clients (programs) that can be used so do your research on these also. The most popular torrent programs are uTorrent, Azureus and BitTorrent.

There are Torrent search engines that search the popular torrent clients (programs). This saves you time by not having to search each individual torrent client site. The most popular torrent search engines are TorrentReactor.net, Nowtorrents.com and Qtorrents.com .

When looking for torrent files, try to find ones with plenty of Seeders. When searching for torrents, you can often sort the results by seeds, simply by clicking on the seeds column header.

Seeders (Seeds): Are people who have a complete copy of the torrent's files and are only uploading (sending) data to the people who are downloading (peers).

Leechers (Peers): Are people who have a portion of the torrent's files while they are downloading they are actively uploading to help others download more quickly.


How to download torrents?

Find a torrent program that will suit your needs, the most common clients are uTorrent, Deluge, Azureus, BitTorrent, and Opera. There are plenty of other clients available as well.
Follow the instructions on downloading and installing your chosen client.
Go to a torrent site and search for a file you want to download. The Pirate Bay is a popular site.

Once you have found the desired file on the torrent site, click the "Download This Torrent" (or however they word it). Usually, the web browser's file download manager will ask what to do with this file. You want to open the file with your torrent program.
If it doesn't open that way, just save the .torrent file to an easy to locate place. Then open your torrent client and use the "Open Torrent" feature(Most torrent clients support click & drag).

The download will start automatically. You may now go and do something to pass the time, because torrents do not require your attention and will download in the background.

superprash2003

very good post!! keep up the good work!!try highlighting some important points and making the TIps for torrent and how to download torrent section into points..

gaggan4392

Thanks for that...

mahendersingh

hi all, i am trying to use utorrnet, i done everything. searche a lot but its not working..

it having yellow triangle, saying no incoming connection? what this means, and also i want to say you that i'm using dial up connection and connecting to internet via my phone nokia 3110c using aircel and getting speed upto 11 kBps.

and what is router..? and how to set port? i done knew anything about all these, please help me as i really want to use utorrent..

please help me how to use it and can we use it with dial up connection with nokia 3110c. please send a reply, i shall be very grateful to you all.

gaggan4392

Which internet are you using, is it having proxy???
If it is in proxy then you cannot download using that, as that internet is only for mobile and you cannot connect with other peers in that internet.

But if your internet is not in proxy by the provider than it can be used to download torrents.

Luke Skywalker

Isn't there's a option for proxy in torrent client?

gaggan4392

You do not understand, i think.
I mean the Rs. 100 plans for Mobile are that which can be only used in the mobile and for that the provider does not allows torrents, like NOP in Airtel.