Top Tips to Increase Bit torrent Download Speed
The latest file sharing protocol bittorrent has modified everything when it comes to file sharing. It is a nice platform for downloading large files. Sharing of files include movies, iso images and mp3 songs. Bittorrent is mainly famous for illegal file sharing.
The Bittorent system can be slow at times due to heavy traffic. So let us tweak bittorent sharing program a little bit.
There are lot of different bittorent clients that you can download. I think the best are BitCommet and uTorrent.
Here is a few tips to speed up uTorrent Client. Similar can be implemented on any other torrent clients, which you are sharing.
Step 1: Increase TCP connections
You need to increase the number of TCP
connections that are allowed at max.Windows XP Service Pack 2 came with the
number of allowed open connections to 10. This is to stop any piece of
spyware(in our case bittorent client even) from totally taking over your
internet connection. TCP connection allowed should be 50 for optimal
performance. The best way to increase the maximum number of connections is to apply
patch that is available at www.lvllord.de. A nice way to fix this is to
download this patch .
The little tweak to the torrent client
works great in certain times. If you’re using uTorrent go to Options menu then
Preferences. In the Preferences go the Advanced Options. In the advanced
options change the net.max_halfopen connections to 80. In the same section
change the max half open tcp connections to 80. Once your done click on OK and
you are all set. This tweak will let the maximum TCP connection available for
the bittorrent client. Now start downloading you’ll realize a little difference
in the download speed. Port forwarding technique is more effective than this.
A third point of
interest is that some “windows updates” revert your tweaked tcp connections
back to 10. So it’s wise to check this every now and then. You can check this
by going to (in windows xp) Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools
> Event Viewer > System… Look for event 4226 (sort by event).
If there are a lot of daily occurrences
it’s likely that the max amount of half-open tcp connections was set back to
10. Or you’re infected with some nasty spy ware…
Step 2:Torrent Client Configuration
In order to apply these tips you must know
your maximum up- and download speed. You can test your bandwidth over here
(stop all download activity while testing).
Settings 1-4 can be found in the options,
settings or preference tab of most torrent clients.
1. Maximum upload speed
Probably the most important setting there
is. Your connection is (sort of) like a pipeline, if you use you maximum upload
speed there’s not enough space left for the files you are downloading. So you
have to cap your upload speed.
Use the following formula to determine your
optimal upload speed…
80% of your maximum upload speed
so if your maximum upload speed is 40 kB/s,
the optimal upload rate is 32kB/s But keep seeding!
