Torrent downloading

I'm posting this because after an extensive search I have found and tryed many tutorials. But none that have solved my problem. It's a common question. How can I improve my torrent client's download speed. I have seen many things that seem have worked for different people. But they just don't do anyhting for me. I've tryed downloading torrents with an amazing amount of seeds and all I get are from 100 b/s to 2 kb/s. The problem is I can't get to a good share ratio. So I don't know if that will fix the problem. I've left seeds for days and my ratio won't go up. I get green smiley faces on all my torrents (with azureus). So I don't know what else to do. And web browsing is great and fast. My only problem is with torrents.

Here's the things i've tryed:

1. Using random ports
2. Tweaking my settings to about 30 tutorials (including youtube tutorials)
3. Using different clients (stuck with azureus and utorrent cause i've read they are the best)
4. I have no router so I can't do the port forward bit, windows firewall isn't on
5. Running port tests and they have turned out ok (open and accepting connections)
6. Running speed tests and all have ranged in this area Down 960 kbps Up 478 kbps my connection is 100.0 Mbps

I think that's about all I did. At least what I remember. If anyone sees anything out. Let me know. I've probably done it.

If anyone has any idea how to solve this problem. Please enlighten me. I have run out of options. Thanks.

This post has been edited by TorrentManiac: May 21 2009, 07:40 PM

Often your connection speed is slow because other programs are using it. To test if other programs are accessing the Internet without your knowing, Click Start, Click Run. Type "cmd" (without quotes). Type "netstat -b 5 > activity.txt". After a minute or so, hold down Ctrl and press C. This has created a file with a list of all programs using your Internet connection. Type activity.txt to open the file and view the program list. Ctrl Alt Delete and open up the Task Manager. Go to the process menu and delete those processes that are stealing your valuable bandwidth. (NOTE: Deleting processes may cause certain programs to not function properly)
After you have tried all this try your connection again and see if it's running any faster.

Also your d/l and u/l speeds are very slow to start with.
Your best bet at those speeds is to download 1 torrent at a time and allow that to finish before starting another 1
Remember just because you can d/l at 960 kbs per second you will never reach it's full potential.
With slow u/l and d/l speeds you may be bottle necking your connection speeds with too many torrents running

There is no point in seeding 20 files at the same time



Firstly, Each TCP connection that you make will add additional overhead to your bandwidth, thus lowering the amount of actual data capacity. What this means is that each torrent will only be effectively seeding data at very low rates.

Secondly, bittorrent clients are designed such that when your peers see that you are sending data so slowly, chances are that client will snub you and prioritise incoming data from OTHER clients ahead of yours so you not only do not fully utilise your bandwidth for purely sending useful data, you are also rejected by your peers


Limit your upload slots per torrent
In certain clients, you can change the max number of upload slots per torrent. Limiting this to a reasonable amount such that each upload slot gets a reasonable amount of bandwidth will help your seeds. The same logic applies as above. Having too many connections or seeding too many torrents at 1 time will be detrimental.

Basically the rule of thumb is to not spread your upload bandwidth too thinly across too many connections. What you want to do instead is to fully utilise your UL pipe for sending pure data.

Strategize what you decide to seed And in relation to the above 2 tips, now that you have decided to only seed a few files at a time. Which one do you acutally seed? A good rule of thumb is to seed torrent with a low seeder to leecher ratio. Azureus keeps track of this data for you even when your torrents are not seeding so just pick the best torrent to seed and stop the rest.

Hope this was helpful