How to speed up your Bit Torrent downloads.
Drastically improve your Bit Torrent downloads. I could not figure out why my Torrent downloads were taking forever until I stumbled across this BLOG entry.
I actually thought this was pretty good because most port forwarding guides don’t include images. It can be vague if you’re not familiar with the process.. Anyone who uses BT should know this. Port forwarding guides for BT downloads have been done to death.
You shouldn’t be using BT if you haven’t read how to use it IMO. It took me all of 3 min. with emule when I bought my first router to realize that something was wrong and within 10 min. I not only had my answer (ports) but had configured it. I’m NO tech genius, just willing to google for answers.
Another thing that can speed up your download is UPLOAD some clients disable sending files to you if you don’t send anything back. Upload speed should be set around 50%-80% of your max connection speed for best results.
Most people unfamiliar with computers will not have a static address on their home network. They will be using DHCP. I think the worst thing about the situation is that people are now equating using the word ‘router’ assuming it has NAT. Funny, people get told that in order to have more computers use the internet at once, they should get a router. But thats not the function of a router, thats a function of Network Address Translation, a *feature* of *some* routers.
For those complaining about their downloads being slow when they hit max upload speed. This has nothing to do with your ISP, it’s a function of TCP. When downloading data via TCP, the machine receiving the data sends packets back to the server letting it know that the packet was received correctly. This is done for error correction purposes. If your uploading pipe is clogged, your computer can’t send those packets out as fast (if at all) and your downloads die.
Here’s one related article or head sown to their main page.
I suppose it’s good for newbs though… This particular article fits the ‘crusty technical person’ personality mentioned previously. Why? If you are using BitTorrent to download, whether it be illegal movie content, or legal iso content… my opinion here, if you don’t know how to configure your router for P2P, then you probably shouldn’t be using it (P2P) yet.
Research. Use Google.