Ever wondered how to speed up your torrent download speed? Here are a few tips and tricks to boost your torrent download speed, when there are very few seeders or if your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is trying to throttle your connection speeds:
1. Check the number of seeds for the torrent file you want to download. Pick the one which features the most number of seeds for a particular file to get the fastest download speed.
2. If the number of seeds is less than 10 and you are not getting the expected download speed for your connection, just try adding the latest trackers from the working list. Here is what you should do:
3. Adjust bandwidth settings by clicking Options > Bandwidth in utorrent.
4. Now select Options > Preferences. Choose Connection and check the box to Enable UPnP port mapping.
5. Go to Options > Preferences and set your maximum number of active downloads to 1. Click Apply and hit OK to save the settings.
7. Right-click on the torrent and choose Bandwidth Allocation. Set it to 'high' to prioritise the torrent file and push the speed limits of your connection.
8. Finally, if your ISP is throttling your connection speeds, here is what you should do: