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Speed Up Your Torrents, Tips from a BitTorrent Developer

torrentfreak.com — BitTorrent is without a doubt the best way to share large files, as long as you follow some basic rules, that is. We asked one of the leading BitTorrent client developers for some tips and tricks so you can speed up your BitTorrent downloads.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 20, 2008

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  • nublet, on 07/19/2008, -12/+138utorrent > azureus.
  • Tyrghast, on 07/20/2008, -3/+86Sharing is caring. Don't just be a leech, help keep the information flowing.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+71Wow. BitTorrent speed tips from the guy who helped turn Azureus into bloatware. Can you just taste the irony?
  • bjarkebech, on 07/19/2008, -2/+61Good article, but most of these things are pretty damn common, they're probably great for newbies...
  • seldon452, on 07/20/2008, -3/+40azureus used to be some good before it decided to go "Web 2.0" and get fat and bloated. I really don't need a social networking youtube clone built right in to my torrent program.

    Its also coded with java.

    nuff said.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+26I know what you mean, i was happy with simple azureus then all the sudden i updated into what looked like some media center program. uTorrent is the way to go. Its simple, its effective, that's what torrenting is meant to be.
  • lazyrussian, on 07/20/2008, -0/+24µTorrent on Windows
    Transmission on Mac :)
  • ileftfark, on 07/20/2008, -0/+17Spoiler alert: there are no spoilers in the article. These are all things every half-decent torrenter already knows. The swarm + your (port forwarded) connection = your success. There's no magic setting that will give you 20gb/s.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -2/+17Perhaps Alex Albrecht should read this post?
  • crownedgriffin, on 07/20/2008, -1/+147. Get FiOS. :D
  • tito13kfm, on 07/20/2008, -1/+13Because people are jealous that he's on private trackers and they are not.
  • whahaa, on 07/20/2008, -1/+12the first rule of private trackers is you do not talk about private trackers.
  • indiancompanion, on 07/20/2008, -0/+11i want your type of bandwidth
  • contradictator, on 07/20/2008, -0/+10Vuze? Really?
  • zomgz, on 07/20/2008, -1/+9tip #1 upgrade your internet line
  • BedPost, on 07/20/2008, -2/+10Faster at downloading? You're so uninformed it's ridiculous. Stop talking, please.
  • Retrospekt, on 07/20/2008, -1/+7I needed a Bittorrent "developer" to tell me to forward my ports?

    ***** genius.
  • deviantsteve, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5Try uTorrent then watch that drop to nothing...
  • xtraa, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5"Speed Up Your Torrents, Tips from a BitTorrent Developer"

    There is only ONE tip: SEED!
  • SLockhart, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6I used to take pride in seeding more than I took until I found out that my ISP (Shaw) imposes a 60GB per month data transfer limit. Now I don't seed anymore. If you have a problem with that talk to Shaw.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6Transmission was slower for me than azureus, with all the same settings
  • seeeymour, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4This guide helped me when I was new to bt..

    http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide ...
  • deviantsteve, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4If you're that stupid to execute "teen ***** horse.avi.exe" then you deserve what you get...Not to mention you're a sick *****
  • MrViklund, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4Seed more.
  • Memnochxx, on 07/20/2008, -1/+52. Be connectable.

    Make sure you’re not “firewalled”...
  • xkorbin, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4I use Usenet for speed (giganews), BitTorrent for content that I can't get there.
  • Hellothere123, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3I'm not moving to another location to get FiOS.
  • Gioleb, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3I'm now on Cox Communications (comcast) in SoCal.
    They blocked limewire and are slowing down uTorrent even when it's encrypted!
    It's really gotten ridiculous.
  • Farik, on 07/20/2008, -5/+8Best tip: http://www.giganews.com
  • skyshock1, on 07/20/2008, -1/+4+1 Can SSH to your home machine, open torrents in screen session, let the download run, disconnect the screen session, walk away as if nothing's going on. :)
  • whahaa, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3give me fios. now.
  • B3nno, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3The trial is 10 gb free, but all the rest costs money...

    I'm sure I'm missing something.
  • Ex3poo, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Alex Albrecht needs to open his ports!
  • Jhiaxuz, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Ooops, this is an upload calculator...
  • Roryking, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3I tend to lump people who brag about using Usenet with the same people that brag about owning a fleshlight. All you've really proven is that you're willing to pay top dollar to be a total loser.
  • TruthKid, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3I'm all about digging down as much as the next guy, but would someone like to explain why he's getting dugg down?
  • Pixelpaws, on 07/20/2008, -0/+21/3 of your memory max? That's 128MB. Most people were throwing fits about other programs *cough*Firefox*cough* for using amounts even close to that.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Best thing to do is upload more! When you upload more, people will also give it to you faster.
  • isntreal, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2I was going to suggest that. Nice!
  • McMaster88, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2fios much? Verizon has fiber run to almost everywhere down here.
  • erasedgod, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Except all of San Diego
  • klitzbtc, on 07/20/2008, -1/+3deluge > utorrent
  • RSterkenburg, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2No you *****, don't even start on the ISPs' "Oh torrents are only used for illegal downloading!!1!11!!!" Look at youtorrent, just reopened with over 67000 legal torrents.
  • Memnochxx, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2You're supposed to limit your upload speed.
  • naterpoke, on 07/20/2008, -0/+27a. have FIOS burn your house down
  • expert01, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Agreed. As another "bittorrent developer" (although mostly trackers), I have to say the last one is just promotion (of course). Number five isn't a way to speed up, it's just saying "deal with it". Number four... while availability might not be optimal, and it's always important to have a lot of seeds, I'd rather pick a torrent with a horrible ratio but tons of peers than one that had a good ratio with only a few total peers. The parts that most of the swarm has should be available much faster.

    They also missed a big one: use PeerGuardian or MoBlock to reduce junk chunks - every junk chunk you get has to be thrown away and re-downloaded.
  • Ovalteen, on 07/20/2008, -3/+5ctorrent > utorrent.

    Take your GUIs and shove them, command line torrenting FTW, the way nature intended!
  • Farik, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2With retention time probably around 2 weeks... Giga News just announced a few days ago that they increased retention time to 240 days.
  • deviantsteve, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2I've always had ***** luck with the edonkey p2p network, BT for most content and usenet for speed (if u can actually find what u want and not just random *****)
  • deviantsteve, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2ewww java...Java makes me fa...err software fat.
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