ok, for ages ive been trying to increase my BT speeds, i have a 1<B ADSL Broadband connection, i am using Azureus, all TCP and UDP ports are correctly done, ive even opened the Incoming TCP to 50 allowing 'faster' downloads, according to Azureus, im downloading file 'x' which is 1.77GB big, in connected to 61 seeds and 116 Peers
and my avergae download speed is not greater than 30KB/s, though sometimes I've seen it peek as high as 80KB/s.
Any tips or advice?? If its a bad tracker would that slow it down? Or if i have a better share ratio would that help? My Upload speed is also averaging at 30KB/s if i somehow increase my share ratio would my DL speed increase?? If s would it help if i seed a file?
I had to write a small bit about uploading. Uploading on BitTorrent is vital. If you connect to a torrent that has just 3 seeds and 800 peers, then most of the sharing will be done between peers. If you download the whole file and have uploaded just 10% of that file and then leave, you are hurting the performance of that torrent. This kind of usage is very bad because if a lot of people begun doing it, then there would be very little seeds and eventually the seeds could disappear and there may be nobody left with 100% of the file. The full file still may be available as files are traded in small pieces, but if all users stopped uploading as much as they downloaded, torrents life wouldn't last long and when it was fully working, it would be very slow. Always make sure you upload as much as you download if not more. Someone who download 700MB and uploads 700MB still in the eyes of BitTorrent is not sharing properly. For the life of a torrent to go on for a long time at high speeds, all users should make sure they upload at least 150% of what they downloaded. When your torrents are done downloading keep them active until you reach this amount, or if you need to use the files, you can stop the torrent activity, use them (but do not alter them) and then click the same torrent again and you would be added to the tracker as a seed and would continue uploading again. Trackers has begun banning leechers, or keeping records of leechers as a way to deter their behavior, if you like BitTorrent, don't try and cheat it.
