Torrents take forever to download

Even better, it can usually fix slowness caused by in-client protocol encryption or port forwarding issues as well which is a pain to setup manually on your router. A significant percentage of torrent users will see a speed boost after signing up for a fast VPN service.

Oh, and a VPN will make your downloads more private too, helping you hide your IP address from torrent peers. The benefits of a VPN go way beyond privacy. Many issues that cause slow torrents can be instantly fixed when you use a fast VPN provider. Slow torrents caused by: Throttling In order to throttle your torrent traffic , your Internet Provider has to be able to:.

Blocked Torrents Some Internet Providers try to block torrent traffic altogether. Comcast, for example, reportedly tried to block all upstream seeding torrent bandwidth. This header is essential, it allows data to get routed to the correct destination, and the correct software program that is looking for that time of incoming data your torrent client. These headers also make it very easy for your internet provider to filter and block torrent data packets, while allowing the rest of your data to go through unblocked.

When you use a VPN, the encryption prevents your ISP from reading these headers, making it impossible to block torrents without blocking everything.

This causes your torrent speed to drop bigtime. Port forwarding is a big pain, and you have to reconfigure it everytime your router assigns a new internal ip address to your computer Argh.

Pretty sweet! For more info about each of these companies, read our guide to the fastest VPNs for torrenting. For the rest of the issues, we can deal with them ourselves. If you have a Mbps internet connection, and you saw the Too many Torrents: Try limiting the number of active torrents and queue the rest. Anything over active torrents is overkill and will hurt overall speeds and tax your processor and hard drive.

Most torrent client have an indicator of your connection health which can alert you to port forwarding or throttling issues. The indicator is usually in the bottom right corner of the software. Vuze displays torrent health as a color-coded smiley.

I use no software anti virus I am a big enough nerd to know that I won't get viruses or spyware or firewalls, but I am hardware firewalled, but this doesn't prevent other torrents from functioning as they should. Even opening the torrent that has been stalling for an hour in uTorrent in a different bit torrent client can make it start downloading in the new client within seconds.

The torrents always manage to announce properly and get scrape data from the tracker, but that's where it ends for an extended period of time. I'm running Windows 7 x64 and my settings are set to what the speed guide thread on this forum suggests. I have tried to set the max active torrents much lower previously, but it had no effect. Out of all the torrents I seed, I rarely have more than 50 connections spread out over torrents. Most of the torrents will probably only be active a few times per year.

All the majority of them would do is announce every 42 minutes, and to me it seems like that would be some very insignificant bandwidth on a 1 Gbps connection. Anyway, is there any way for me to be able to seed hundreds of inactive torrents while still being able to instantly start new torrents, or will I have to pick only one?

The problem is caused by the fact that your global connection limit gets exceeded far before you run out of active torrents. I see this question coming up a lot in this forum and others, and nobody has ever answered it in a way that actually works. Well I have figured it out. I've been experiencing this problem for years with uTorrent, and recently realized that in my case, at least , it is happening whenever I have a large number of torrents that I'm seeding; several hundred at least.

Allow the new downloading torrent s to connect, and then restart all the seeding torrents. After restarting, the new downloads will retain their connections and the seeds will connect for uploading, as if there was never a problem. This works every time, regardless of the number of torrents I'm seeding. Everyone else who has ever given advice about this problem, such as changing Bandwidth, Queuing, Connection, or other preference settings, have just been throwing out wildly inaccurate guesses trust me, I've tried them all in every conceivable variation.

This is clearly a resource limitation within uTorrent, that no setting changes will correct, but this method works. Try it! To check this, try downloading a Featured Content torrent on another network. Look at the TCP Port number, and increment it up by one. For example, if your port number is , make it To check this, delete any unfinished torrents, then close the app. Next, reboot your phone, then uninstall and reinstall the app, then reboot your phone again.

If you are not seeding, you may be anonymously identified by the swarm as a leecher.