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How to Increase Torrent Download Speed

Avatar of Aishwarya Gunde Aishwarya Gunde
Last updated on: May 30, 2018

Today, Torrent has become one of the basic necessities of life, especially for the youngsters. Be it movies, ebooks, videos, TV shows; it is the best place on the World Wide Web for downloading these large files. However, it may sometimes have slow download speed short come.

Let’s first briefly get acknowledged as to how the torrent works. In order to download the files from a torrent, we need to have tools such as:

  • BitTorrent
  • µTorrent
  • BitComet
  • qBitTorrent
  • Vuze
  • Transmission
  • Deluge
  • BitTornado

These Torrent Clients use the BitTorrent Protocol, a content distribution protocol that supports peer-to-peer file sharing for a large amount of data distribution. We do not download the required file directly; instead, we first download its .torrent file from various torrent providers like Kickass, Pirate Bay, etc. Technically, the .torrent files contain metadata; what you can say is entire information of its respective large file to be downloaded and not the actual content! The Torrent Clients then use the .torrent file to download and seed the required file by the user.

Following are five easy ways to increase Torrent download speed:

Selection of Torrent File

This is the primary step one must take to get their file downloaded fast.When selecting a torrent file, take a glance through the seeders and leechers. In simple words, seeders are the file distributors whereas leechers are the clients. Choose the one with a higher ratio of seeder as compared to leecher. As the seeder has the entire file and leecher is just another peer who has joined the network to download it, the greater the number of seeders the healthier is the torrent file. This will ensure a greater download speed.

Peer Connection per Torrent

BitTorrent protocol is based on peer-to-peer connection. Thus, a higher number of connected peers per torrent prove beneficial in increasing the download speed. Go to Bandwidth Preferences of your torrent client and look carefully at the ‘Number of Connections’ section. The maximum number of connected peers per torrent should not fall under the extremities i.e. neither extremely high nor low. Hence, upgrade your value from 30% to 40% greater than your upload speed. Consider, for example, your speed is 200 kbps, then you must enter the number value from 260to 280.

Bit Torrent Client Bandwidth Preference

Download Only Required Files

A Torrent file contents may include some unnecessary files such as a Download Information Text Files, System Information Files, Sample AVI Files, Screenshots JPG Files and other subfiles. So, when you add a torrent file to your Torrent Client software, make sure that you uncheck the file contents that are not required. This will save time, bandwidth and even your disk space, though is less amount.

Download Only Necessary File Content

Enable Encryption

Many of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are inhibiting BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Consequently, the speed decreases. Enabling your torrent protocol encryption is the best solution for this problem. This enhances privacy and confidentiality and thus, ISPs and other third parties can hardly identify the BitTorrent traffic.in addition, ensure that you have enabled DHT network and local peer discovery.

Enable Bit Torrent Protocol Encryption

See also
A Comprehensive List of Best 8 Torrent Clients for Various Platforms

Port and Firewall Configuration

The incoming BitTorrent connections can be blocked by the Firewall. For this, you need to manually configure the Connection settings by adding the Firewall exception. Moreover, right above that, you will find a port number. The BitTorrent protocol port numbers are usually choked up by the ISPs to avoid bandwidth usage in heavy amount, which ultimately reduces the download speed. So, you can set up a random port number which doesn’t fall within specified its range (preferably higher than the range). Typically, the TCP port for BitTorrent traffic is in between6881-6889.

Port and Firewall Configuration

Conclusion

So if you are movie buff and face trouble while downloading one from Torrent then you must go with one of the ways we have mentioned to increase torrent download speed. These steps will ensure you keep up with entertainment quotient.

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Aishwarya Gunde

Aishwarya Gunde is passionate about her area of interest, she is presently pursuing the Master of Business and Science Degree in Data Analytics. She has a deep curiosity in exploring the Digital and Social Marketing and everything else going around in the virtual world.

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  1. Avatar of KateKate

    Great article! I finally know how to speed up the operation of these programs

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  2. Avatar of KunalKunal

    It’s certainly a great article, unfortunately, In India lots of torrents sites are blocked by the government. There are certain workarounds like using a proxy or VPN to access torrents. But by using them, the download speed reminds of 2000 when we used to download over a dial-up connection.

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  3. Avatar of NisheshNishesh

    Wow, I have been using torrent since 6 years and I didn’t know about this hidden secret about torrent. Thanks Aishwarya Gunde :)

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  4. Avatar of Masud Alam PatwaryMasud Alam Patwary

    Torrent files are download very difficult. But important large files are mostly torrent. Your guidelines are maybe helpful. Thanks

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  5. Avatar of Hans PrasadHans Prasad

    Thanks, it really helped. I was able to increase my torrent download speed to some extent.

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  6. Avatar of Chandan SahChandan Sah

    I have been using this trick for a long time, by the way thanks for the updated information.

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  7. Avatar of PrajwalPrajwal

    Well, getting a perfect port number actually helps a lot. Thanks for the insight though!!

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  8. Avatar of Mohan DesaiMohan Desai

    Lots of Torrent sites are blocked in India but thanks to VPN that we can access those sites, this is informative guide, thanks for sharing.

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  9. Avatar of A. RazzakA. Razzak

    It is really increased my Torrent Download Speed, thank you such type of posting.

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  10. Avatar of Donna YoungDonna Young

    Thanks Aishwarya! Have been using torrent for so many years and had no idea about these tricks.

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