Increase Your P2P Download Speeds

[Breakthrough]

If anyone using Rogers cable has noticed a speed decrease, they have applied bandwidth throttling to many major BT ports and P2P ports. You can check the forums at http://www.dslreports.com for more information on this issue.

Very nice guide, it helped a lot, although I prefer Azerus as my BT client (although it hogs my resources!).

[GNRambo]

my speed is so slow now that i changed my settings :p

if you want to see truely great seeds head over to http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/

:D

[Tetly]

Why is it only downloading at 20kb ? I changed my options to what the guy/you had, but its still low.

[Mystical112]

not bad... i have the sp2 tcp patch so should i open more connections or not?....

[Bhav]

good guide (Y)

[OxideNOS]

you could also scrap all three of those apps and start to use DC++... best p2p ive ever seen there is rarely a time when i cant find something in the many hubs in DC

how do i search DC++ database for files???

[Bhav]

how do i search DC++ database for files???

you have to know people ;)

[Slimy]

not bad... i have the sp2 tcp patch so should i open more connections or not?....

in utorrent? Yes, the sp2 patch mainly applies to p2p, so yes increase it to whatver you patched it to (50 recommended).

[Mystical112]

in utorrent? Yes, the sp2 patch mainly applies to p2p, so yes increase it to whatver you patched it to (50 recommended).

thx ill try it out..

[IanD]

Nice article, won't be using a bit of information from it but unfortunately I'm sure a lot of people will :no:

<troll> I wish people would learn where the "stuff" they get from P2P actually came from.</troll>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene

[noroom]

Pre-allocate files: UNCHECKED

Prevents fragmentation, user preference.

There is little use to pre-allocate except for making sure you have enough space when starting a torrent. It does NOT reduce fragmentation as compared to not using it, since ?Torrent ALWAYS allocates the full file when writing to prevent fragmentation, regardless of if pre-allocate is on (unless you use compact storage or sparse files).

http://utorrent.com/faq.php#How_do_I_make_..._the_torrent.3F

[Slimy]

^ Good catch, I'll fix it along with a few other things in a while :)

[tryeruby]

you can do this

or if you use windows XP with Service pack 2 you can enlarge the number of TCP connections

Windows XP SP2 limits TCP connection attempts to 10. If there are more concurrent TCP connection attempts, Windows generate a warning: EventID 4226: (TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts). You can go to Xp's Admin tool, event viewer, look in system tab and notice tcpip entry (with yellow warning sign). Open it and click on the http link inside to see the page.

you can correct it using the patckh at this siteDownload Patch

read it here

http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497

you can search at google if you wants to know more :)

[Slimy]

^ You can do both, the sp2 patch has been mentioned in this thread and my guide a few times, I plan to add it in in the next update.

[McLaren_F1]

Testing :D speeds are kinda crap. O.o

[peter_uk]

what hasnt been mention or at least cant see it. if there is an option to change ports in the program that you use change them select a range for example 20000 - 20010 tcp/udp select that to forward to your pc from the router and now you dont need to configure the router each time you want to add another program just use the next port in your open range.

so emule 20000tcp , 20001udp

torrent 20002

and so on

[Laughing Man]

You can also try using the telnet port for bittorent. (23). Most ISPs don't filter that much cause telnet use to be used for old servers and some ISPs still use them.

[wutang01]

Thanks so much for the guide! Now my speeds in uTorrent are gradually getting faster!

I'll test a popular file soon, and compare it with BitTornado (my current default torrent program)

[planetik]

Thanks so much for the guide! Now my speeds in uTorrent are gradually getting faster!

I'll test a popular file soon, and compare it with BitTornado (my current default torrent program)

Try a linux distro :yes:

[wutang01]

Try a linux distro :yes:

What do you mean? A Linux system can download faster than a Windows system? :wacko:

[Slimy]

^ I believe that the operating system should not affect speeds as speeds depend on much more important such as internet connection, router settings, file popularity etc.

[I Dont Know]

I think he means download a Linux Distro.

[Slimy]

Well then I would recommend torrenting open office instead, the speeds are outstanding :yes:

[comk]

thanks for the guide, slimy. tried everything, but still doesn't improve my download speed(aorund 20 - 40 kb/s).

Edited March 11, 2006 by Kboom

[ninjamunky]

I was just downloading some Adobe software tryouts at ~330KB/s with FDM (Free Download Manager) and Firefox. Was amazing. But I cut back to share bandwidth on the network and so that I didn't kill the modem LOL I believe it has a tendancy to crap out with that high of a connection. I didn't want everyone else to get upset :p I generally get +100KB/s on Cabos and quite a bit less on average off of Azureus, like when I downloaded some Linux distro's. Pretty many peers, but the speed was usually <100KB/s