Top Tips to
increase bittorent 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.
Bittorent is mainly famous for illegal file sharing .
The Bittorrent system can be slow at times due to heavy traffic. so let us tweak
bittorrent sharing program a little bit.
There are a lot of different bittorrent 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
using.
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 occurences it’s likely that the max amount of
half-open tcp connections was set back to 10. Or you’re infected with some nasty
spyware…
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 speedProbably 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!