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[Adam Easy Wishes]

Is there a way to speed torrents up?

I've briefly read about opening ports and things but is the hassle of doing it worth it?

[aekido]

What BT downloader do you use?

get Vuze, and you can open the ports so that you dont have any restrictive speeds on your downloads due to your internet connection speed

[Adam Easy Wishes]

I have Vuse... fancy directing me to the right settings?

[aekido]

goto the settings connection settings and turn on RC4 encryption

[Marsh]

Okay, i've just downloaded this too for a shottie - seems really good but how can i specify which files I want to download from a torrent? In utorrent it comes up with a window showing the files within the torrent and you could specify what you wanted to download. Can you tell me if you can do this as it's an essential feature for me.

Cheers.

[The Kernel Loaf]

I downloaded Azureus and it had Vuze aswell but I hated it. Reminded me of Veoh but shitter.

I'd recommend µTorrent, and its a fairly small app and fast.

[scottST]

on a mac, transmission is awesome

[John W]

erm... best not mention you this on torrent sites because you will be hated for it

Bandwidth Allocation > Choose High

Properties > Set the maximum upload rate to 1

that should speed up your torrents by only allowing your downloader to download and not bother with seeding the torrent, although if you don't want to be a dick, when it's finished you want to do the opposite to allow other people's torrents to download faster.
I'm not sure if this only applies to utorrent or not, but worth a try.

[aekido]

I've used both utorrent and vuze, and I'd say vuze is much better

[Marsh]

I've gone back to utorrent.

Couldn't figure out Vuze - far, far too complicated and I was getting sick of "HD content" being shoved down my throat. There's far too much going on and I hate programs that try and make you do what it wants you to do or when you have to look at certain things when it boots up. The fact it has to boot up is annoying enough in iteslef. utorrent comes up instantly with a list of the files in a torrent - you click what you want and it's away It's also a far lighter application and therefore better in my book. Also, haven't seen a slight change of speed between the two apps using optomised settings. I had a right good trawl round the web and tried a few different settings combonations and used what I reckoned best for each app. Doesnae seem to make any kind of difference.