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10 Ways To Speed Up Torrent Downloads
Torrent users would attest to the fact that half of our time is spent looking for 'healthy' torrents and the other half trying to download (and a bit of upload too) at the maximum speed. The former is mandatory; the latter thankfully is within the realm of tweaking.
If you are the one who thinks that your torrent download speeds could do with a boost then keep reading.
Your ISP is where it starts
Choosing the right BitTorrent client
Go for healthy seeds and peers
Check the maximum download and upload speeds allowed by your ISP. Most ISP's have specific bandwidths for both uploads and downloads. Obviously your torrent download speed won't cross the cap set by the ISP. Go over to this article on Speed.io on how to check your broadband speed and this one by Tina on ways to increase your connection speed. There are many other bandwidth testers like DSLReports which is included in the speed test within uTorrent.
Use the better clients out there like uTorrent, Vuze or the BitTorrent client itself. Wikipedia lists about 51 of them supporting the BitTorrent protocol. The choice of client used should always be updated to the latest version. The screenshots here depict uTorrent. The settings should be similarly configurable for other clients too.
A peer is any computer participating in the download and upload of a torrent file. A seed (or seeder) is anyone who has one complete copy of the file being shared across the torrent network. A leech (or a leecher) is the person who does not have the complete file yet but has joined the network to download it. A leecher becomes a seeder when he downloads the entire file and then shares it across the network.
For high torrent speeds, the best bet is in numbers. The greater the number of seeders, the healthier the torrent and the better the chance of higher speeds...
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