help with TORRENTS please guys?

[chesters1]

its a bt home hub v3

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/cons...o?topicId=25746

Edited March 18, 2012 by chesters1

[robtherake]

its a bt home hub v3

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/cons...o?topicId=25746

 

Chester.

 

My computer skills are pitiful, but I seem to have worked torrents out. Before you do anything else, try this. You might want to make a note of any settings you change, just in case there's no improvement.

 

Whatever torrent client (program) you're using will have an Options button, usually at the top somewhere.

 

Enter the options menu. Choose Preferences, then Connection.

 

Make sure the following boxes are ticked: Enable UPnP port mapping, Enable NAT-PMP port mapping, Add Windows firewall exception.

 

Change your port number. I use a number in the 40000s, 406**. I'm assuming here that if you use the same port as everyone else then it's got to be slower, right?

 

Now click on the Bandwidth option. By trial and error I arrived at the following settings.

 

Maximum upload rate 40

 

Max. Download rate - maximum (if you have a fast connection)

 

Max. number of connections 200

 

Max number of connected peers per torrent 5

 

Number of upload slots per torrent 4

 

Tick the two boxes marked: Apply rate limit to uTP connections and Use additional upload slots if upload speed<90%.

 

 

These settings give me great download speeds for torrents with plenty of seeds.

Bear in mind when you choose a torrent you should choose one which has plenty of seeds (uploaders with 100% of the file). More seeds usually means faster download speeds, though (through some perversion) not always.

 

I don't see any reason why these settings shouldn't work for you also. If they don't, then it's someone else's turn!

 

Best of British (whatever that means these days),

Rob.

Edited May 21, 2012 by robtherake