sonictorrents

2009-02-05T18:06:00.001-08:00

I hope you have seen a lot of banners yelling out "Increase your torrent speeds by 500%".

Its actually Scams seeking money from you and its useless.I will be sharing with you powerful techniques which can drastically increase your torrent download speeds....

Tweaking the connection limit & uTorrent

2009-02-05T18:02:00.000-08:00

Tweaking the connection limit

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Windows has a connection limit which badly affects torrent download speeds.This is so it prevents malware from spreading its seeds rapidly all around the network. (If you protect your computer properly with a good antivirus & Antispyware this shouldn’t be a problem.)

(This will only work on Microsoft Windows XP Home/Professional and

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional)

Step 1: Download Orbit Downloader here.(Download)

Step 2: Install it.

Step 3: Open it up.

Step 4: Select Tools>Preferences>Others and

press "Increase connection limit for Windows XPsp2"

Step 5:On the new screen you can see info about current limits,below

info there box in which you can enter new value.

Step 6:Enter new value of "2048"[This is the Maximum Connection Limit for XP]

Step 7:Hit apply & follow the help

Tweaking UTorrent

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Now Go To Options>Preferences>Advanced in utorrent, and Set

“net.max_halfopen” to 2048.[It would be 8 as default in utorrent]

Hit Ok

Tweaking Reserve Brandwidth

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Now

START - RUN

On Run dialog box enter "gpedit.msc"

A new window(Group Policy) will open up,on it

select Administrative Templates > Network > Qos Packet Scheduler

On the Right - SETTINGS there is "limit reserve Brandwidth"

Double click - Enable it and change Brandwidth limit [%] to 0

Now this has been done, so you can use the 100% of you brandwith.As default Windows

limits 20% of its brandwidth for windows services.

Mozilla Firefox Tweak

2009-02-05T17:46:00.000-08:00

PLEASE NOTE: Only works for Mozilla Firefox

1) Open Mozilla Firefox.

2) In addreas bar type: "about:config"

3)Look for were it says "network.http.pipelining" to TRUE

(Double Click it until it says TRUE)

4)Look for "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to TRUE

(Same way as stated above)

5) Now. Right-Click Anywere then click "Create New" Then "Integer". Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay"

Then Click Ok,then put the number "0" (Zero) in the next box

6) Click OK,

7) Restart Firefox.

8) Feel The Difference in Speed

To get the maximum speeds we should tweak windows registry. Don't worry if you are not a techie, we will use a

software for that:-

Software to Help Boost Your P2P Download Speeds

2009-02-05T17:42:00.000-08:00

Cablenut is a freeware(Download)unrar it & install it after installing it install the Cablenut_Update.

Cablenut_Update creates a folder in which you can find Optimal type of registry setting for your internet connection.

In utorrent do all of this:

2009-02-05T17:39:00.000-08:00

Step 1: Set your “Global Maximum Number of Connections” to 130.

(For 256K connections) Setting this number to low will limit your

speeds, and setting it too high will cause too much bandwidth to be

used, and can cause slowdowns.

Step 2: Set “Maximum Number of Connected Peers per Torrent” to 70.

(For 256K connections) If you see that the peers connected to a

specific torrent are exactly that number, or very close, then increase

this number to improve seeds.

Step 3: Set “Number of Uploaded Slots Per Torrent” to 3. (for 256K

connections) This depends how much you want to upload to other

users. If set too low it may affect download speeds.

Step 4: Check “Use additional upload slots if upload speed <90%”

Step 5: In Options>Preferences>Queuing, Set “Maximum Number of

Active Torrents” to 2 (for 256K connections)

Step 6: Set “Maximum Number of Active Downloads” to 1 (for 256K

Connections). [If you download more than one torrent at a time you

will experience slow speeds. It is best to download one file, and then

download one after.]

Step 7: In Options>Preferences>BitTorrent, Check “Enable DHT

Network” (This is recommended to be checked to improve speeds.

More people will be available for sharing if it is checked.

Step 8: Check “Enable DHT for New Torrents”

Step 9: Check “Enable Peer Exchange”

Step 10: Check “Enable Scrapping”

Step 11: Under Options>Preferences>Downloads, Check “Pre-Allocate

All Files”

Step 12: Under Options>Preferences>Downloads, Uncheck “Append .!

ut to Incomplete Files”

And keep seeding,your upload speeds have increased too...

Using Open DNS & uTorrent 1.7.7(Works on XP & Vista)

OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS.Using Open DNS increases your download Speed.

So use it and see the difference - http://www.opendns.com/

uTorrent v1.7.7 was better as there is Bandwidth Allocation for each torrent file,you can set upload & Download limit manually.Use it for Greater Control.

NETSpeedBoost Professional Edition is a great software.If you are a Vista user then you would like

the tweaks of NETSpeedBoost,NETSpeedBoost increases the performance of your computer by opening up the pipeline so that the information flows much faster.(also works with XP)