Jan 5, 2018 - Speed up the download rate of your. Limit your upload speed - you can manage that in the 'Torch torrent settings' section. Share your torrent files - keep your torrents in the “Seeding” status to upload and share them with more users. This way you will get more bandwidth and your download speed will increase.

Bittorrent Basics To use torrent effectively you should at least know basics terms. Don’t worry it’s not very difficult. If you already know this then Peer-to-Peer: In a regular file sharing each person downloads a file from a central server. Bittorrent is a distributed protocol in which there is no central server having file. A file is broken into pieces of predefined size and each user may have all the pieces or some of the pieces.

User having a piece can upload it to others and download pieces he/she does not have from others. Thus user simultaneously acts as client and server in traditional sense. Peer: A computer that takes part in upload or download of a torrent.

There are 2 types of peers: Leecher: A peer having partial file(some pieces). Seeder: A peer having whole file(All pieces). A leecher becomes a seed when it has whole file.

Tracker: A server that coordinates sharing between seeders and leechers. Bittorrent Client: Most operating systems do not have the capability to download torrents by default. You need a software to download torrent. There are many options:,, and.torrent file: This is not the actual file but contains information about seeders and leechers. This a small small file having size in kilobytes. It can be thought as pointer to the actual file.

You have to first download this file. Open this file with your bittorrent client and then the actual file will be downloaded. Fact: Bittorrent protocol was designed by Bram Cohen in 2001. It now accounts to more than 33% of all the traffic on internet! Top 10 ways to Increase torrent speed: The following section will show you how to increase torrent speed. We have used uTorrent in these steps because of its popularity.

But you can find similar options in other clients. 1) Port forwarding: If you are behind router then you need to forward the port used by your router.

Normally a router will block all incoming connections to your computer. Port forwarding will help other peers to “see” your computer. To check if your port is forwarded first we find out the port used by Bittorrent client. In uTorrent open Options menu then Preferences>Connections.

Copy the port number. Now visit this page: to check whether this port is open. Intel centrino advanced n 6205 driver lenovo. If it is open then you don’t need to do anything. If not then you can enable port forwarding in two ways: Automatic( UPnP): This is the automatic method. What it does is that it allows bittorrent client to automatically open ports of your router when required. Just open uTorrent preferences again and go to Connections.

Make sure that Enable UPnp port mapping is checked. UPnP should also be enabled in your router settings. This method has some security issues. Apparently some malware can also use this feature to open ports. Therefore we have also covered manual method that does not have this problem. Manual method: This method varies from router to router.

Here we have used Netgear WGR614. Open (for Netgear router). Others may try 192.168.1.1 or 172.16.0.1. For Netgear username is: admin and password is: password. Click Port Forwarding from left. Add custom service and fill the boxes as shown in image. For those who want to know more about this topic read this excellent.

2) Choose a healthy torrent: This is something you should do before downloading a torrent. Select the torrent having maximum seeders compared to leechers. It is more important have higher percentage of seeders than the number of seeders. For example, one torrent has 100 seeds and 200 leeches (33% seeds) and another torrent has 500 seeds and 2000 leeches (20% seeds) then you should go with the first one.