Is there any way to increase my utorent 3.3 speed without changing the ISP my current speed is 60-70 kbps and sometimes 200-210 kbps
torrent speed
There is nothing much that you can do since the speed mainly depends upon the seed to peer ratio, number of seeders, etc.
u can refer the tweaks & tricks available online which might improve the speed....changing the version of utorrent may also help coz some people claim that a particular version is stable & fast for them
S
Do a google search on " how to increase utorrent speed " or " how to speed up utorrent " there are many videos, try them. They increased mine.
Shiva
Shiva
The only tweak think i can think of is to forward a port for your torrent client .
And keep changing the port frequently to prevent ISP from throttling down P2P data speed.
First off all.....all the tricks you try on increasing the speed of torrents will not work more than the plan speed you have been alloted by your ISP.
In India, all isp block LLU's (local loop unbundling)so you will not get speed more than you Broadband bandwidth as compared through out the world....some or all International ISP's allow LLU.
Find the correct settings according to your plan speed and you will get around 75~90% of your plan speed.....some case even more or less depends on allowed bandwidth.
Look out for seed/peer ratio...Their equation is as important as the file you are downloading...I assume you are downloading legit files....!
In India, all isp block LLU's (local loop unbundling)so you will not get speed more than you Broadband bandwidth as compared through out the world....some or all International ISP's allow LLU.
Find the correct settings according to your plan speed and you will get around 75~90% of your plan speed.....some case even more or less depends on allowed bandwidth.
Look out for seed/peer ratio...Their equation is as important as the file you are downloading...I assume you are downloading legit files....!
Changing the port will not help. He will have to enable forced protocol encryption in case his ISP does throttling.
Whatever tweaks you do, you won't getting nothing more than the maximum speed of ISP.
Exactly...can't increase more than ISP alloted speed
oooooooooooooooooooooooookkkkkkkkkk i will try all of them tommorrow and tell
T
You can try to maximise your download speed of utorrent. If not already done, set your Upload speed to 1 KB/s from Options-->>Preferences-->>Bandwidth. Do this if you don't want to seed.
Can you give a link which explains this concept of port forwarding? Does port forwarding really increase your speed? I get more speed in IDM than in utorrent. What technology does IDM use or am I in some myth?
No. Never do this. This will only reduce your download speed.
Search online. There are good guides out there.
Torrents are based on p2p technology which usually uses TCP protocol and sometimes UDP to transmit data from one peer to another. Torrent clients don't use a standard port number for communication. They use random ports mostly. The torrent client will not be listening for data packets across all of these ports. As a result the client will fail to recieve the data packets from certain peers. But when you forward your ports properly the router will direct all of the specified TCP packets to the port you assigned.
Stuff you download with IDM usually use HTTP protocol whose port is common and fixed. So no port forwarding is required.
T
Thanks a lot for p2p explanation...
how does decreasing upload speed reduce download speed? we're given ,say , 512 kbps download & 128 kbps upload speeds by ISP.... does that mean i can download @512 & upload @128 at the same time? that is , total bandwidth flowing = 512+128~750kbps ?? or is it maximum 512kbps (upload @128 + download@256) ??
Download and upload rates are independent. If your plan offers 512kbps download rate and 128kbps upload rate, you will get 512kbps download rate regardless of the amount of data you are currently uploading.
Torrent clients prefer connecting to other clients with better upload to download ratio. Suppose there is one seed(one who has the complete file) and 2 peers(who are currently downloading the file) in which one of them is you. Suppose you have completed about 50% of the file and the other peer has only just started. If you limit your upload rate the other person will only have the seed as the source. So the bandwidth of the source will be split among you and the other peer, lowering the download rate of both of you. But if you don't limit your upload rate, the other peer can download the 50% you have from you while you download the rest of the 50% from the seed at full speed.
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^^a small correction.when you download something there is also a related upload in the form of acknowledgement packets which tell the ip from which you are downloading that data was received successfully.this is why you will never get max download & upload speed simultaneously for your connection.ideally your total max upload rate should be ~75% of your max connection upload speed to get max download connection speed.on my 2mbps bsnl connection i get 220KBps download & ~36KBps upload when downloading using download manager & uploading using utorrent(no download) simultaneously.
Guys..if u have any doubts on utorrent then read this thread "utorrent question" it covers all queries regarding utorrent
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/138149-utorrent-question.html
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/138149-utorrent-question.html
This one is obvious but if you havent tried it-
1.Right click on the torrent
2.Select Bandwidth allocation
3.Set to high
1.Right click on the torrent
2.Select Bandwidth allocation
3.Set to high
Port forwarding just puts a hole in firewall for utorrent to access the internet. IDM and utorrent are different concept. IDM downloads files stored in a server where as utorrent get it from seeders. Looks good seed to peer ratio. Try private trackers.
Thay are like different lanes of road, won't affect each other. You simutaneously upload and download at maximum speed.
only useful you you are downloading two or more files at the same time.
It is bad, it will affect your browsing.
can't say for sure .. previously when I used Xp and ut 2.1 and set high priority or torrents with lots of seeders the browing was really slow .. same was true with win 7 but ever since I started using win 8 the issue has been greatly fixed. So win 8 has better bandwidth management IMO 
T
@OP: download torrents which have better number of seeders, else you will get slow speeds no matter how fast your connection is
If you are reaching your maxed out ISP throughput, nothing more can be done about it. If you are getting less speeds then it can be factored to: ports, throttling, seeds.
like discussed before it also depends on the peers and sometime I can get max speed on torrents which have only 8-10 seeders but a very few peers.
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hmm.. and sometime I get 2-3 KBPS though the torrent having 1000+ seeders peers.
Anyway to block /ignore seeders peers which have low upload speed?
@OP you can use torrent to direct download feature offered by certain websites . There are paid and free services . These sites acts like an online cloud storage for the torrents you want to download and you can down it from them as you normally download files from internet . You can also use download managers like IDM or FDM with these services .
PM me to know the site addresses . I don't know whether sharing that kind of site addresses is allowed here .
hmm.. and sometime I get 2-3 KBPS though the torrent having 1000+ seeders peers.
Anyway to block /ignore seeders peers which have low upload speed?
no there;s no way to do this ( at-least in utorrent ) but sometime I've to restart a torrent download ( with enough seeders ) at-least two times to get proper speed ,, don't know if it's a issue with the utorrent version ( 3.2 ) I'm using or not.
S
i prefer bittorrent. i gave me better speeds over utorrent. utorrent gave me 200-300kbps. bittorrent gives 900-1000kbps.
Shiva
Shiva
really
I didn't consider such things
I use utorrent 3.1.3
i will check bittorrent too
I didn't consider such things
I use utorrent 3.1.3
i will check bittorrent too
with same torrent ? but such difference may not be always possible .. anyway I think you have a very good net connection.
S
cool Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info.
I get highest possible speed on utorrent itself.
same here and before I used to use Azureus only but ever since it changed to Vuze stopped using it. Tried Bitorrent and Bitcomet and several other torrent clients ( Deluge, FrostWire ) but still utorrent is the best.
I've heard that bittorrent fake speeds...
Heard same about DAP too.
While downloading torrents, if i limit upload speed, then simultaneously i can upload different things on different web apps, like videos on youtube, but if i am downloading with idm, which is eating no upload bandwidth, then uploading videos takes ages unless i limit the download speed in idm or pause the download. can anyone explain this???
IDM uses around 5-6 KB/s upload speed while downloading and while downmloading upload works fine .. just checked with downloading a software and simultaneously uploading to imageshack but the download speed on IDM did get halved when doing so.
what settings you use with IDM?? coz in my case, while uploading, IDM still downloads with full bandwidth, and the same video which used to show 15 mins to upload shows 150 min. remaining, being stuck @ 1% for a long time...
Same Video:
Without IDM:
*i.imgur.com/e8bjC44.jpg
With IDM:
*i.imgur.com/RsCSEPT.jpg
Without IDM:
*i.imgur.com/e8bjC44.jpg
With IDM:
*i.imgur.com/RsCSEPT.jpg
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i gave an explanation about relation between upload & download speed in my previous post in this thread so see it.there is something called aggressive downloading & i am assuming that IDM on your system is doing that(more the no. of connections/parts more aggressive will be downloading) which results in severe delay of acknowledgement packets for your upload(which needs to be downloaded to your pc) resulting in poor upload speed.
yeah, even i think the same, IDM is like taking the every last juice of the bandwidth left for downloading, which does'nt even leave some bandwidth for acknowledgement packages, evil IDM..
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Best is to use services like zbigz.com,bytebx.com etc
IDM allows you to limit bandwidth to a particular value.
what settings you use with IDM?? coz in my case, while uploading, IDM still downloads with full bandwidth, and the same video which used to show 15 mins to upload shows 150 min. remaining, being stuck @ 1% for a long time...
Same Video:
Without IDM:
*i.imgur.com/e8bjC44.jpg
With IDM:
*i.imgur.com/RsCSEPT.jpg
IDM ( yes, I paid for this app and upgraded nearly after 4 years ) with default settings out of the box
anyway, a slight correction I was downloading a torrent as well at that time so it took some of the download and upload speed both but as there's was very little number of seeders the torrent speed was not so good .. around 25KB/s may be .Now I've seen such bandwidth hog situation with XP and a little with win 7 but win 8's bandwidth management is simple awesome.
@ratul: u can also try IDA which is I'm using and its excellent
IDM ( yes, I paid for this app and upgraded nearly after 4 years ) with default settings out of the box
Now I've seen such bandwidth hog situation with XP and a little with win 7 but win 8's bandwidth management is simple awesome.
and i have win8 too..
ok, lemme try it...
what's IDA ??
what does it means 4 (11) in Seeds column and 7 (23) in Peers column . please help me with details ??
^ it means that 4 out of 11 known seeders are currently connected. Same for peers?
^ it means that 4 out of 11 known seeders are currently connected. Same for peers?
^ it means that 4 out of 11 known seeders are currently connected. Same for peers?
Internet Download Accelerator
got it
Are 11 are register users or both (register and unregister) ????
registered where?
4(11): 11 seeders are seeding the torrent file (using utorrent,azureus etc) and 4 are seeding your file.but this is random and keeps changing...like 3(11),7(11)..etc
I use the torrent client Tixati.I get max speeds from my connection.
Tixati looks awesome but still I wonder why utorrent is so tiny in size compared to other torrent clients and like cars I think weight reduction speeds up things
bittorrent is good too and vuze is also a good client
Tixati looks awesome but still I wonder why utorrent is so tiny in size compared to other torrent clients and like cars I think weight reduction speeds up things
yeah its big compared to mu torrent.Another disadvantage of tixati is that there is no pause function,only start stop.
I have also tried Deluge which is also a decent client.
I updated to utorrent 3.3 and found that some files are giving slow speed 10Kbps...where as other torrent files are giving full speed.
even though the seeders are more than 200...some seeders don't set upload limit to MAX...damn..can read the users comment "please seeed etc"
even though the seeders are more than 200...some seeders don't set upload limit to MAX...damn..can read the users comment "please seeed etc"