Thread: Torrent download speeds

As mentioned it will depend on your ISP plan too.
If you're charged for upload as well as download, this will consume your monthly allowance quicker.

We are on a 1500k Download/256k upload, 20GB per month (shaped), free uploads. This is for our home network, shared by 3 pc's at times.

I'm not using torrent software as much at the moment (using Azureus),
but generally you need to upload and get your share ratio close to 1:1 to make the most of fast downloads.

I've normally set upload speed capped at just under half our connection speed, and download is either unlimited or capped around 2/3 - it depends a bit on how good a torrent swarm is, what time of day i've set for downloading, etc.

This still gives good performance for the other users, and a fast torrent download too.

and our monthly downloads vary greatly, from 5G to 15G, depends if there's torrents we're after!

On utorrent you right click on the torrent and select properties to set the limits for any one download. I've got a couple of topgear torrents downloading at the moment, and because the plan here charges for uploads as well as downloads i've kapped my uploads at 3kb/s each to keep the upload levels down. It can be very fast to download on torrents, it just depends how many uploaders you can connect to. leave it running for a while and you will be surprised at how much you will get downloaded.