EdBoy7713 Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 I've heard that it is possible to increase up the download speed of BitTorrent downloads. Would any of you know how to do this?Thanks, I REALLY appreciate your time and effort! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 Do you mean you've heard that there is a specific utility for this software that increases download speed? If so, then a Google search should bring that up. Using keywords "bittorrent download speed" in Google I obtained 348,000 references. Most of these were queries similar to yours so it seems to me that you're out of luck.If download accelerators were as wonderful as claimed, then everyone would be using them and have need for broadband.In addition, you cannot download P2P information faster than the computer that you're downloading from. If that computer is slow or has a number of users on at the same time then no amount of tweaking or messing about with your setup will make any difference anyway.A Trickle instead of a Torrent, eh? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd108 Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 Depending on a number of factors (such as what type of conection you have and what GUI your using to DL) it may be worth tinkering with your settings. IF you allow too many people to connect to your PC all at once things get pretty choked up real fast. I normally only allow one person to DL from me at a time and I have the upload speed capped a lot lower than my DL speed. Obviously in the spirit of P2P sharing you need to allow some uploads. You normally find that more recent Seeds stream faster and the older files that are less flavour of the month have fewer seeds. That said if your downloading large files movies or whole albums then expect to have leave them over night regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maudibe Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 One of the most critical factors for using downloading torrents as a user myself is a the client and the firewall inbetween, zonealarm or the pro version is a big no no.! if you want to get good download speeds, switch to something like sygate firewall and the client Azureus or bitcomet, also it greatly depends on the type of connection in the case of cable 600kb you need to set the seed capacity whilst downloading to minimal to gain maximum download speeds, thus getting maximum packet transference, on other networks it seems to work differently.Also another key issue is the port settings nearly all isp's cap the speed ratio's up to around 6999, so you need to be using port settings higher than this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Also - with BT, upload speeds are a great concern. This is one reason why I don't use it - my upload is capped at 20kbps :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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