Turbocharging your downloads using bittorrent is easier said than done. A lot of the file downloading is governed by a swarm, but sometimes, the network you’re on can affect the download speed too. Whether you’re new to bittorrent or you’re a seasoned pro, there’s almost always a way to rev up your client engine. Following all the below mentioned steps would definitely help you to understand how to speed up torrent for faster file downloads.
Choosing The Right Port
Getting the port selection right is important because, if you choose the wrong one, your software might not work as intended or your ISP might get jumpy and block your downloads. Also, the wrong port can interfere with other software apps installed on your computer.
You’ll also need to forward the port through any software firewall installed and through the router you’re using. Finally, you’ll need to allow room for any outgoing communications and distribute your uploads efficiently during seeding.
Test The Port
Test your port. If you’re using the Vuze bittorrent client, this is fortunately very easy. Vuze has built in a port test at “Help>NAT/Firewall test.” Before you use this test, make sure you disable the blocklist.
Your test will show the TCP and UDP port that’s being used for Vuze. Test both by selecting them and hitting “test”. For UDP, you want to see the UDP listen port set to 50857. The TCP listen port should be the same.
If you fail the test, check to make sure you’re not using ports between 6881 and 6999. These were the original ports used by BitTorrent clients, and they’re often blocked by IPS. If you are using these ports, go back and change it to something else outside of this range.
Forwarding
A router will block all incoming communications unless you make an exception for it – that’s good, and it’s supposed to work that way. That’s how you’re protected from malicious attacks on your network. But, you need to open up a port in order to upload and download files, so you need to change the forwarding for this. Permissions for software firewalls should be set to allow TCP and UDP in both directions, instead of just one.
Setting the permission for the port is a safer choice than setting permissions for the Vuze program. If you are forwarding the port, make sure you’re also forwarding port 49001 UDP, which is the mainline DHT port.
For the router, you can use the UPnP or forward through the router – the later is the safer option. To do the manual forwarding through the router, UPnP must be disabled, and then you must set permission for the Vuze port you’ve chosen. Next, allow both the TCP and UDP communications. Finally, port 49001 should be forwarded also, but only for UDP.
Test Your Connection
Test your connection using the speedtest.net website. You want to make sure everything running as it should. Set the test to show you kilobytes.
Encryption
Use Peer Exchange and Distributed Hash Table to encrypt your uploads and downloads. It will help you find additional seeds and leeches. Set the peer sources by going to “tools>options>connection” and select “from a tracker,” “decentralized tracking,” “supplied by another peer,” “added by a plugin,” and “incoming connection.” The setting for encryption will be found at “transport encryption.” Select all boxes except the “use by “cryptoport” tracker extension to prevent plan incoming connection attempts…” and make sure minimum encryption is set to RC4.”
Selecting Good Torrents
Good torrents are ones that have a high seed to leech ratio. In other words, they have more up loaders than downloaders. Other than that, don’t do something foolish like download copyright-protected files without the authorization of the copyright holder, and you should be all good.
