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Fantastic Bit Torrent Acceleration Achieved !!!

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WildHorse

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My uTorrent speeds were slow, and while downloading/seeding the computer was nearly useless for web & e-mail.

By following the speed-up tweaks suggested on the site linked below, the torrent I presently have running (5.8 GB in size) was accelerated to roughly 400% of its previous speed. I appreciate that my speeds may be slower than yours, as my dsl line isn't too great, but on a % basis the gain realized from a few simple tweaks is tremendous.

download:

Was:.....................................around 14 to 30 kB/s
Now is accelerated to:............ 85

Upload:
Was: ....................................around 8 to 10 kB/s
Now is:..................................8 (still)

Also, now the web browser & e-mail don't appear even slightly impeded by the torent that's running. Web & e-mail now seem fully normal after the uTorrent tweaks!

Mini-guide to help all of you with your speed problems...

If you're having slowness issues, try what that link recommends, and maybe you too will gain large speed acceleration like I did. Good luck!

Edit: P.S. I gave uTorrent full unrestricted access through my McAfee software firewall, but contrary to recommendations in the Guide, I still have the router firewall set to a high level of protection. Also contrary to to recommendations in the Guide, I still have my rig overclocked to the max.

Be sure to run both the half-open TCP patch & the test script that you'll find in his writeup at the linked site. Also be sure to virus-scan anything you download like that before you run it, & after.
 
Originally posted by: Kromis
For me, just opening up the port usually does the job.
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I wish I understood what you mean by, "opening up th eport" but I don't.

You probably aren't referring to forwarding the port through the firewall, because you have to do that in the first place in order to get uTorrent to work at all.

You probably aren't referring to using a different port than the default one for trans-firewall forwarding.

So maybe there's some opportunity for additional torrent acceleration in what you suggest. If only I could understand your comment, maybe I could exploit that opportunity.

Please decode what you mean by, "opening up the port."
Thank you.
 
I download at my maximum connection speed pretty much all the time in Azureus. I've achieved this by port forwarding, limiting my upload speed to an acceptable speed, and choosing healthy torrents. I also have transport encryption enabled for the hell of it.
 
Originally posted by: scott
Originally posted by: Kromis
For me, just opening up the port usually does the job.
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I wish I understood what you mean by, "opening up th eport" but I don't.

You probably aren't referring to forwarding the port through the firewall, because you have to do that in the first place in order to get uTorrent to work at all.

You probably aren't referring to using a different port than the default one for trans-firewall forwarding.

So maybe there's some opportunity for additional torrent acceleration in what you suggest. If only I could understand your comment, maybe I could exploit that opportunity.

Please decode what you mean by, "opening up the port."
Thank you.
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I'm referring to that one. I currently don't have my port forwarded because I'm paranoid about spyware and that shiz. But my utorrent still works. It just downloads at a slower rate. That doesn't stop it from working.
 
I was d'ling fear multiplayer on azureus, I finally got it to do 400+kb /sec by putting unlimited connections to torrent (in advanced options)
7mb qwest dsl for $37/month ftw 😀
 
Originally posted by: Noema
Meh, uTorrent always maxes out my connection unless the leecher-seed ration is awful.
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Well I had that trouble too, until I followed that speed-up guide. Previously if the torrents were running my computer was useless for anything to do with the web or e-mail . But afterwards, with uTorrent now tweaked and greater speeds flowing, now they work just fine while torrenting.

I estimate that most of the speed gain I achieved is due to choking WAY back on upload speed and numbers of allowable connections (partially by runnintg the half-open TCP patch in the link within the OP above)
 
I use Auzures and i download at 120 - 140 kilobyte per sec on most torrent and my connect is 1.5Mbits/0.512Mbits

I never had a issue with Bittorrent 🙁
 
Originally posted by: scott
Originally posted by: Noema
Meh, uTorrent always maxes out my connection unless the leecher-seed ration is awful.
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Well I had that trouble too, until I followed that speed-up guide. Previously if the torrents were running my computer was useless for anything to do with the web or e-mail . But afterwards, with uTorrent now tweaked and greater speeds flowing, now they work just fine while torrenting.

I estimate that most of the speed gain I achieved is due to choking WAY back on upload speed and numbers of allowable connections (partially by runnintg the half-open TCP patch in the link within the OP above)
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Interesting. I'll give it a try then.
 
Yes. It makes it 100x faster. (although YMMV pertorrent/user).

I think what REALLY does it is the max outgoing connections. Windows allows 10. The guide says to increase (with pretty much a hack) to 50. That enables the torrent to connect to more people quicker and faster. I just downloaded a complete linux distro in ~15 minutes (at 700kB/s). That would normally take overnight at ~150kB/s.

It really does help. I'm sure the other tweaks increase the junk as well.

BTW, the Openoffice test torrent hit 1.5mB/s (yes, megabytes)
 
his router was probably just inadequate, many can't handle p2p and the many connections it requires or something😛 if it isn't that just install the new azureus, it has gotten noticably faster since last update. and since all clients get updated automatically perhaps the networks got a little more efficient lately;P
 
i jus use bit-lord... once its gets going i get a healthy 150-200k on most healthy torrents. that leaves me with a further 300k to play with for other things
 
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