professa X Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Can someone check this link out and see if its a good idea? Still learning so i would appreaciate if someone could explain the whole tcpip patch and half-open connections. Thanx http://bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Another 'optimisation' aimed at boosting a leechers download rate... The max_halfopen setting changes very little these days. As long as you are not using Windows XP, don't bother changing it. Here's a quote for you: 'Ultimately, it depends on the number of seeders and peers with high upload rate. Remember, you must upload to enjoy good download rates, but not so high that it affects download speed.'1 Besides your connection, these two things are the only factors impacting your download rate. P.S. That guide is dumb. You should be forcing encryption on all torrent traffic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
professa X Posted August 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Thanx! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Basically like JohnFlower said, speed is pretty much solely based on your own download/upload speed as well as the other peers/seeders in the swarm.No matter what you do, you're not going to be able to download faster than what the others are able to upload to you. If you have 3 seeders seeding to 400 peers; it's going to be slow. 3 people can't upload fast enough for all 400 people to be getting decent speeds. Though of course those 400 people should be uploading the parts they have managed to download to the other peers who haven't got it yet. Torrents only survive because people seed. So it's only fair for you not to drop a torrent till you've at least seeded the same amount as you downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry-Potter Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Basically like JohnFlower said, speed is pretty much solely based on your own download/upload speed as well as the other peers/seeders in the swarm. No matter what you do, you're not going to be able to download faster than what the others are able to upload to you. If you have 3 seeders seeding to 400 peers; it's going to be slow. 3 people can't upload fast enough for all 400 people to be getting decent speeds. Though of course those 400 people should be uploading the parts they have managed to download to the other peers who haven't got it yet. Torrents only survive because people seed. So it's only fair for you not to drop a torrent till you've at least seeded the same amount as you downloaded. Yeah that's true! But if you are truly aiming at speeds then you should possibly connect to all of the peers possible! For that you'll have to set protocol encryption inside the bit torrent tab as enabled [not forced or disabled] That'll help you connect to all of the possible peers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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