Ok I understand that it depends on the ratios and all that but I can't get over 60kb on any torrents and you talking some high profile **** torrents with 1000's of seeders and 2 leechers !!

I have port forwarded through my router and increased from 15 - 60

Any other thoughts on an increase ?

 

I was told (honest) that if you go to the options preferances and connections (assuming using utorrent) and have a play with the max download and upload speeds - 0 is normally no limit, can get better transfer rates.

Not that I wold ever use torrent get music / **** / software from !!

Richard

 

use "utorrent"

Set your max upload speed to about 5k below what you can upload - most broadband users set it to 15kb

 

Your download speeds does depend on their upload speeds though.
I'm on a 1meg line using Azureus and normally get 30k p/s but sometimes on torrent that has few seeds i can get over 100k p/s

 

Does your ISP shape the traffic?

 

are you use's windows sp2 by any chance as that limits you download speed.
I was geting 50-60kbs before i put the tcp patch in now i get around 300kbs.

Have a read here SpeedGuide.net :: Windows XP SP2 you can also download the patch from there but if you dont want to hunt for it heres the link www.LvlLord.de - Tipps, Tricks & Utilities - Downloads

 

Thats pretty useful to know cheers gotmashed

 

spot on that fella cheers, worked a treat

 

Good good glad it helped it should help a few others as well me thinks

 

Having your ports stealthed slows down your connection speed with the BitTorrent client as well

 

The patch does not limit your connection speed - it limits the maximum number of concurrent connections your PC can connect to at any one time.

 

and for those in the KNOW, Bit torrent uses many different connections to get higher download speeds !

HENCE, it worked