Why do really small torrents get slower download speeds

 · Your connection settings are VERY bad, even for your connection. Turn down the number of active torrents. You are trying to open 28, connections when you have an connection limit. Simply put, it doesn't work. Additionally, having connections per torrent will eat a LOT of your internet line's available bandwidth with protocol overhead.  · Mar 6, - Hello When i want to torrent a file i use bittorrent. This program is really slow, not my download speed but the program itself. So i tried Utorrent. Why is my download speed so slow on uTorrent? After concluding our speed test, we have discovered that BitTorrent is remarkably faster than uTorrent.

A few things to do. Set your upload limit to about half of your maximum upload speed to prevent the upload clogging up the download overhead. Enable encryption on the BitTorrent tab. To be really. In a perfect world, you'd pay for super-fast internet service, connect your cable modem to a reasonably speedy router and realize incredible download speeds for every device in your home. Adjusting your maximum download and upload speeds in Qbittorrent. Many guides for tweaking torrent speeds recommending limiting your download and upload rates to around 80% of what you're actually capable of. This is sound advice, but you need to understand why. ISP plans typically offer higher download than upload rates.

Hi all, first off I'd like to say I'm not very computer literate, so bear with me! So for the past week or so I've been having extremely slow download speeds with bltadwin.ru downloading torrents at around kb/s when for the 3+ years before last week I've had absolutely no problem whatsover. That is because the download speed depends on the number of seeders(who share their data for it to be downloaded) and also peers. Hence if no. of seeders are less the download speed is also less. It is also a the same reason why some torrents never never start to download even if you have a working internet connection. The reason for using a lightweight torrent client is that it only focuses on downloading torrents and speeds up the transfer rate. utorrent and qBittorrent are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.