How to Speed Up Torrents

This is an article on how to increase the download speed of torrents. You can do this by applying some basic tricks to increase Internet speed, or by adjusting the settings of the torrent program you are using to speed up some torrents. However, if the torrent does not have enough uploads to complete the download, you cannot make changes.

Table of Contents

Apply general methods

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Choose torrents with enough uploads. Torrents with fewer uploads than downloads will take longer to download than vice versa.

If the torrent has almost no uploads, you cannot download the complete torrent.

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Turn off services and programs that run in the background during downloads. Opening other programs, especially bandwidth-intensive ones (such as streaming services) while torrenting, will significantly slow down your download speed.

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Try downloading one torrent at a time. In case you have problems with torrent download speed due to downloading multiple torrents, try downloading only one torrent and pausing downloading other torrents. Thus, the bandwidth will be used for downloading one torrent instead of having to divide it among other torrents.

You can pause torrenting by right-clicking the torrent and selecting Pause .

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Prioritize certain torrents. If you want to download multiple torrents, you can select “High” priority for a particular torrent so that it downloads faster than other torrents in the queue:

Right click on the torrent.
Move the mouse pointer to Bandwidth Allocation .
Click High .

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Avoid downloading other files while torrenting. Again, opening streaming and file sharing programs side-by-side with the torrent program will slow down torrenting.

If you share your internet connection with one or more other people, torrent when you know they’re not downloading or using a streaming service.

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Download torrents at times of low activity. This applies to homes and the internet in general: it’s a good idea to download data late at night or early in the morning when you know network users don’t typically download data or use streaming services.

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Connect the computer to the router via Ethernet . Using an Ethernet cable to connect the computer to the router will ensure that there are no interruptions in the download process.

If you can’t do this, place the computer as close to the router (or vice versa) as possible.

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Use a VPN when downloading torrents. If your internet service provider throttles your Internet speed because they don’t approve of torrenting, you can use a VPN to bypass this limitation.

Note, torrenting illegal files can get your IP address blacklisted (along with other offenses).

Speed up on uTorrent and BitTorrent

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Open uTorrent or BitTorrent. These are the two most popular torrent programs.

If uTorrent is not available, you can download and install it from https://www.utorrent.com/.
You can visit http://www.bittorrent.com/ to download and install BitTorrent, if you don’t already have it on your computer.

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Click Options . This is the option in the upper left corner of the window. A menu will appear here.

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Click Preferences . This option is at the top of the currently displayed menu. The Preferences window will appear immediately after the click.

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Prevent standby (ready) torrenting. Here’s how to make sure your computer doesn’t go into standby mode if you often download a lot of torrents:

Click the General tab.
Check the box “Prevent standby if there are active torrents”.
Click Apply .

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Turn on UPnP. This is the connection type that allows torrents to access the appropriate ports of the router:

Click the Connection tab.
Check the “Enable UPnP port mapping” box.
Click Apply .

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Optimize upload and download capabilities. Here’s how to make sure you don’t spend too much bandwidth on uploads and don’t limit the amount of bandwidth for downloads:

Click the Bandwidth tab.
Look for the “Maximum upload rate” heading near the top of the window.
Enter 500 in the box to the right of the “Maximum upload rate” heading.
Make sure the “Global Rate Limit Options” box is checked.
Click Apply

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Change the value of possible connections. This will help your torrent profile keep a good footing in the community and maximize download speeds:

Enter 150 in the “Global maximum connections” field.
Enter 100 in the “Maximum connections per torrent” field.
Enter a number between 3 and 5 in the “Upload slots per torrent” field.

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Change the maximum downloads. You need to do the following steps:

Click the Queueing tab.
Increase the value in the “Maximum number of active downloads” box.
Click Apply .

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Click OK . This is the button at the bottom of the window. Your settings will be saved after this operation; from now on, downloaded torrents will have optimal settings.

You may have to close and reopen uTorrent or BitTorrent for the setting change to take full effect.

Advice

Many internet service providers track users’ illegal activity, including illegal torrenting. You can avoid this by choosing legitimate downloads, or using a VPN in some cases.

Warning

Using torrents to download paid entertainment products or content is a violation of copyright, and is illegal in many places.

Steps

Apply general methods

Speed up on uTorrent and BitTorrent

Advice

Warning

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