How to speed up torrents!

Tutorial on how to speed up your torrents:

This is stuff that i have either
a. discovered by myself
b. read about somewhere

First off, i would like to encourage people to use a program called BitTyrant. It is a mod off of Azureus, a popular Torrent client.

My first recommendation is to set a cap limit, about 75% of your maximum download rate. I don't know how or why this works, but it does.Also, set your number off peer connections to something like 250.


Make your max simultaneous outbound attempts 100.

Disable Windows Firewall and any others you might have.

Use UPNP for portforwarding your router, in BitTyrant just select Plugins>Upnp>enable


Alternatively, forward the port(s) that your program uses. (See How to host warcraft 3 games below for tips on port forwarding)

Use this tool made by LvlLord to increase the number of connections you can have. Windows comes with a default limit of 10 as of service pack 2.

Connection Patcher
^I take no credit for this, this is a brilliant program written by LvlLord.

Set the half-open connections to 250.

All i can think of for now, please email me with any ideas for problems
that i can fix in my next post!!