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Speed torrent downloads

Most BitTorrent clients use port numbers in the range of 6881 - 6999. Some of the less torrent-friendly ISP uses this fact to slow down torrent traffic. They basically look for communications occurring on these port ranges, and they throttle that traffic. If your ISP takes this approach, it is probably affecting your download and upload speed for torrents.

To guard against this, you should change the ports used by your particular BitTorrent client to be something outside this range. If your ISP is throttling traffic on these ports, you'll get a good speed improvement as a result.
Rating: 100% positive, 4 total Votes
Categories: BitTorrent speed
Added: on Jan 31, 2008 at 5:58 am
Added By: badger
Searches: speed bittorrent port torrent isp

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Ah the irony... I don't know what ad Google is serving the rest of you, but I'm seeing an ad for Comcast high speed internet. Comcast... one of the worst companies in the world as concerns net neutrality and the free use of bandwidth as people see fit. They are notorious for trying to block P2P traffic. Want another tip on how to improve your torrents, don't use Comcast!
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