Increase Your P2P Download Speeds


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Pre-allocate files: UNCHECKED

Prevents fragmentation, user preference.

I don't think there's this option, I only see Pre-allocate ALL files. Even if you uncheck this it'll still pre-allocate as the files download. For example if your *.torrent has 10 files in it and you unchecked it, it won't pre-allocate all 10 files at once, instead it would pre-allocate "file 1" if you started recieving data from it.

UPnP Mapping: I think this is for automatic port-forwarding so you don't have to keep your ports open all the time. (atleast from my experience that's why it appears to be)

In the latest uTorrent release (and bitcomet/azureus) they all have protocol encryption. In utorrent this is disabled by default, enable it to help alleviate capping caused by ISP's deep packet inspection.

Also peerguardian with the p2p lists can help improve speeds in a way, by removing a lot of the "junk data" sent out from a huge list of addresses.

Its not going to actually increase your download rate, but it will decrease the amount you have to download due to not downloading as much false/junk data.

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80% of your upload is too high, it will kills your maximum download speed. I have a (6.6Mbps/384Kbps) connection and I played with my upload speed and found the only way to still get my maximum download speed is to set the upload cap at 25kb/s. If I use 80% of my upload which is around 40kb/s my download speed significantly decreases and sufing would be extremly slow.

I just tested it just now, I was going around 730kb/s with 25kb/s upload when I set the upload to 35 and 40kb/s and my download speed drop down to 40kb/s.

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This guide is meant to explain how to increase your speeds when using p2p applications and still be allowed to browse the the Internet, with just a small slowdown. First off, I'd like to recommend to everyone:

?torrent for large new files - http://www.utorrent.com/

eMule for rare files - http://www.emule-project.net/

cabos for media files - http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/

They all use very little resources and are spyware/adware free.

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