how to speed up BT?

[nitroblaster]

What is the best way to speed up the download rate for Bittorent? Im on a cable modem and its always going as slow as 5-10kb per second. Arigato!!!!

[launch619]

You could always try one of the experimental versions of it. (Such as shadow, burst, and others.) These usually have more speed, and always have some kind of features that the original bittorent does not have.

But then again the new Bittorent (3.0 I think) is said to be a little faster. (Its spyware free, unless you install the search bar which is full of all kinds of spyware. Found that out the hard way....) You can always try that.

Hope that helps.

[Unimatrix Prime™]

I had posted somewhat of a "tutorial" about BT some time ago, so this may help you with your problem:

It depends on 3 factors: your connection speed, the amount of seeders/leechers, and the upload speed of those people. The 1st factor is self-explanatory: if you have a limited connection type, you won't be able to get the full downloads speeds from Bittorent. Things like uploading/downloading from someplace else while running BT can affect your download. The 2nd fator is also a major one. If there's just 3 people downloading from a guy with 56k, you won't be getting much from it, but if there's 100 seeds, your speeds should hopefully be far better than 50kb/sec, for example. Lastly, the upload speed goes with the 2nd point, since people's upload speeds can vary when there's many leechers.

So while I'm not entirely sure how to increase the speed from a BT link, what you can do is either wait a few minutes for a download to speed up (at times, BT downloads take a while before they start to increase), or you can restart the BT download and hope that it connects to the appropriate seeds. Hope this all helps

[ayumi_pukka89]

heh......u think 5-10 is slow...its acutally not bad......mine are usually like 2kb/s if im lucky and usually they dont go at all and i have cable.... >.<

[CT_Cool]

Yeah mine is around 2kb/s too and it keep d/c me all the time when i used it to download

[everfree]

Bittorrent is EVIL! My dls go at 1kb/sec, and I've had a few that have gotten stuck at 99%.

[Luna Saisho]

NOTE: Many people have said that if YOUR upload speed is slow, you will get slow downloads. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I've throttled back my upload speed when I am using voice chat to 1k/sec, and still get fast downloads.

The newest 3.20 of the official BT client has given me download speeds upwards of 100k/sec, much better then the experimental clients, until they catch up with whatever he did to 3.20. ^_^

[EdenZone]

Isn't the latest version 3.3?? and it's since 24 Sept 2003???