maxmonTG Posted at 2018-12-02 13:49:37(311Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Not sure if it is just me, but I am seeing a reduction year on year of standards on Bit Torrent regarding average swarm speeds and an increasing percentage of peers who can not download as speeds little above that of dial up and fractions of a Mega Bit or MB. Most internet providers give you a more generous download bandwidth to the upload speeds you can achive. Most people should be able to download at 1.25 MB/s or 10 megabits per second (10 mbps). Other popular ISP bandwidth download options are 2.5 MB/s or 20 megabits per second, 3.75 MB/s (30 mbps), 6.25 MB/s (50 mbps) 12.5 MB/s (100 mbps) or even faster. IF YOU NEVER SEE any torrent download at near these speeds perhaps the following may help: 1. Do not overload your bit torrent client by running more than 1 downloading torrent at any time. Why? Well each downloading torrent opens up at least 2 upload slots to the swarm and often a lot more. You upload bandwidth is more restricted by your ISP and often only 1 tenth of your download allocation. It is very precious and the more you upload to any swarm, the more peers will download bits to you in addition to any seed or seeds. You get a faster download if you can upload to the swarm is the vital message here. If you are running more than one download at the same time, your upload bandwidth to each swarm is divided by the number of active downloads until you have nothing or very little to give. This is a simplification of course but you get the picture I am sure. It is the law of ever decreasing returns for each active download you run at the same time. 2. Never restrict or reduce your upload speed. Why? Other peers in any swarm will not be keen to upload to you if you can not upload to them or communicate with them in a timely manner. In years gone past torrent trackers used http to communicate. This took loads of upload bandwidth away from the client and you had to restrict your upload bandwidth by 15 to 30% or you would throttle your download speeds. All trackers now use UDP which is a leaner system using less upload bandwidth and it is also self regulating to an extent that un restricted upload bandwidths are not so bothersome now. Pick a very popular torrent, say the latest blockbuster movie or TV series where the tracker shows more seeds than peers. I often find the larger sized downloads such as a 1080 pixel HD episode of say Game of Thrones are faster than the standard resolution (smaller) torrent of the same episode. Set your bit torrent client upload/download speeds to unlimited. Remove all torrents from your bittorrent client (you can put them back again after) and re boot your computer. Open up your test torrent in your client and observe your download speed. It should climb slowly until you reach a highest point. That point may or may not be your download bandwidth limit, that is not important. It is this next part that is: Observe your upload speed to other peers in the swarm. As your upload speed is unlimited you may find you are at or near your upload bandwidth limit. Throttle it back a little in small increments until you see your download speed peak. Move your upload speed either side of this point until you get the magic upload maximum figure for your connection. Set your bit torrent client to that maximum upload limit. Remember it takes time for each adjustment to ripple through all the peers who are uploading to you. There upload is your download speed. You can repeat this with other torrents until you are sure you have got the sweet upload maximum speed spot. Job done. Enjoy your faster download speeds on all torrents from now on. Just remember running only one download at a time makes sense. You should also be careful on how many active seeding torrents you are running as they all consume upload bandwidth, CPU and hard drive time. As a rule when you get a fast download you should see your seeding torrent upload speed throttle way back. This is normal. If you can try to never run more than 1 seed and 1 downloading torrent for the best balance between upload and download speeds. thanks all | |
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| MafketelPosted at 2018-12-02 15:18:41(311Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Thanks for this helpful information. | |
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bombegranate Posted at 2019-02-28 19:30:04(298Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Also make sure to disable the µTP transfer protocol in your torrent client. | |
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| KerexxPosted at 2020-04-05 17:00:51(241Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Thanks for the information | |
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| GHOSTFACEPosted at 2020-08-25 10:08:45(221Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| useful info, thanks for this.:) | |
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| BigJ0554Posted at 2020-10-23 07:30:03(212Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Why? Because it's insecure or because it slows it down? I always enable µTP, pex and so on 🤔 | |
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SweetSkunk Posted at 2020-10-23 08:05:23(212Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Don't mean to butt in here but ... That comment was made 86 weeks ago .... :-) | |
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| SweetSkunkPosted at 2020-10-23 08:07:18(212Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Granted,, their last visit was yesterday, so we'll see... :-) | |
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| BigJ0554Posted at 2020-10-23 10:28:59(212Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| it doesn't make it irrelevant 🤐 | |
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Csabaxb  Posted at 2020-10-23 10:54:31(212Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| no, not to disable the µTP transfer protocol in your torrent client. helps you get more speed if are seeders:D | |
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| catmar1944Posted at 2021-03-29 08:36:28(190Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Thank you, although as a relative new user of torrenting (using qbittorrent) I did not comprehend much of it I do appreciate the effort and the explanation. Would like it more detailed especially targeting the client I am using lol but best done in a video rather than in writing. There are so many variables and a great limitation of my understanding which does not help. I know the thread is old but I still appreciate the writer's efforts. Thanks appreciated catmar1944 | |
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