Making Torrents faster?

Sinny · 23 Feb 2009 at 17:44

Really just want a bit of info (for Legal purposes) on how to make a Torrent I'm downloading go faster, I'm currently getting 150kb/s but I know that I'm not being throttled and I can achieve 400kb/s - 600kb/s with the torrent and my connection.

I've set max number of connections to 300 and turned off windows firewall which seems to have helped a bit, also capping the upload the 30 seems to have given me more of a boost.

also the torrent is currently at : 18(932) seeds & 147 (7313) Peers.

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=137344

The file is on that thread I'm trying to download.

Dist · 23 Feb 2009 at 17:49

Have you got all your ports correctly forwarded?

FrenchTart · 23 Feb 2009 at 17:50

Cap your upload to at most 1/3rd of your total upstream bandwidth.

Assuming your router can deal with it, large numbers of connections are generally better. You can probably go above 300 (and make sure that the figure "per torrent" isn't low also).

Make sure that the port is properly forwarded for the torrent file.

uTorrent is a very good client so you may want to try that out too.

With that many seeds/peers, you should be able to get rather decent speeds with the above settings.

Sinny · 23 Feb 2009 at 18:22

Dist said:
Have you got all your ports correctly forwarded?

I've no idea how to port forward.

Sin_Chase · 23 Feb 2009 at 18:26

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/87547

Or chose any 1 of 100s of guides from a google of "port forward"

jonislost · 23 Feb 2009 at 18:32

everyone else has made great suggestions, but the seed to peer ratio is like 1 to 10. I would be happy with those speeds from the ratio (speaking as someone who maxes out at 1.1mb/s on a fully seeded torrent )

Sinny · 23 Feb 2009 at 18:46

Cheers for the responses guys, I've port forwarded uTorrent (Hopefully my DG834G is a bit of an odd one

) although I now only seem to be getting 10kbps :<, I guess it'll pick up though.

Dist · 23 Feb 2009 at 19:36

If you turn on UPnP in both the router and utorrent that will sort out all port forwarding for you. Can be easier then manualy setting port forwarding which doesn't always work right (at least it hasn't for me on my old netgear router).

Craig321 · 23 Feb 2009 at 19:39

Sinny said:
Cheers for the responses guys, I've port forwarded uTorrent (Hopefully my DG834G is a bit of an odd one ) although I now only seem to be getting 10kbps :<, I guess it'll pick up though.

Did you make sure it was forwarded properly with the "Test is port is forwarded properly" button?

Sinny · 23 Feb 2009 at 19:54

Craig321 said:
Did you make sure it was forwarded properly with the "Test is port is forwarded properly" button?

Checking port 6**** on xx.xx.xx.xxx...

Error! Port 6**** does not appear to be open.

Speeds are around 100kb/s now but the port should be open as I've allowed it on my firewall.

edit - Managed to find a decent open port and it's ok now, I'm assuming the rest is down to my ISP and how many seeders/leechers there are.

yashiro · 23 Feb 2009 at 20:48

As long as you can accept an incoming connection correctly the speed is limited by the amount people are uploading and how that upload is distributed.

Occasionally, badly coded clients and buggy routers can impede your downloading. More commonly it's just down to people downloading at max speed but uploading very little.

Rainmaker · 23 Feb 2009 at 20:59

Sinny said:
Really just want a bit of info (for Legal purposes) on how to make a Torrent I'm downloading go faster,

It's called Usenet.

Dist said:
If you turn on UPnP in both the router and utorrent that will sort out all port forwarding for you.

Also, that.

Craig321 · 23 Feb 2009 at 21:01

Sinny said:
Checking port 6**** on xx.xx.xx.xxx...

Error! Port 6**** does not appear to be open.

Speeds are around 100kb/s now but the port should be open as I've allowed it on my firewall.

edit - Managed to find a decent open port and it's ok now, I'm assuming the rest is down to my ISP and how many seeders/leechers there are.

Did you manage to get that port open properly then?

Rainmaker said:
It's called Usenet.

Definitely +1 to that

Daegan · 23 Feb 2009 at 21:11

Rainmaker said:
It's called Usenet.

What he's trying to download probably isn't on Usenet, since it involves someone posting 9GB of beta mmo client which is freely available elsewhere.

Ben643 · 23 Feb 2009 at 21:15

Yeah, as someone has mentioned already, there's pretty much no chance you'll get full speed with that seed:leech ratio unless there's some seriously decent connections seeding in the swarm.

Rainmaker · 23 Feb 2009 at 21:16

Daegan said:
What he's trying to download probably isn't on Usenet, since it involves someone posting 9GB of beta mmo client which is freely available elsewhere.

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Sinny · 23 Feb 2009 at 21:22

Rainmaker said:
It's called Usenet.

Also, that.

you have to pay for Usenet don't you?

Also the client was only released this morning so it probably won't be on Usenet yet.

Craig321 · 23 Feb 2009 at 21:26

Sinny said:
you have to pay for Usenet don't you?

Also the client was only released this morning so it probably won't be on Usenet yet.

Usenet is often quicker than torrent for 'accessibility' to particular files

You do have to pay for Usenet most of the time - however, some ISPs give you access for free - I've got free Usenet with BT. I've not hit any limits on it either, although I'm guessing there's some kind of speed limit (not that I'd ever reach that on my super speed 750K line).

Daegan · 23 Feb 2009 at 21:31

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