What are your optimized bittorrent settings?

Dead Code · 2009-02-11 05:17:03

I have a 2 Mb down and 256 kb up connection..

these are my current settings for rtorrent

Number of Uploads per torrent: 4
Connections per torrent : 60
Throttled speed: U: 20 kB, D: 220 kB

Usually i get about an avg of 150 kB/s speed on downloads.. is there anyway i can optimize it further?

tjwoosta · 2009-02-11 14:45:24

i will share my rtorrent config although yours would be different if you have a different connection speed

this is my results for speakeasy speedtest

Download Speed: 2858 kbps (357.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 648 kbps (81 KB/sec transfer rate)

(i can usually get about 300 kB/s download rate depending on the torrent)

here are a couple of links that helped me optimize rtorrent
http://torrentfreak.com/optimize-your-B … oad-speed/
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rtorrent

this setting it leaves me with just enough bandwidth to browse the web

also i find that if you throttle the uploads too much it will actually slow your download rate

# Maximum and minimum number of peers to connect to per torrent.
#min_peers = 40
max_peers = 85

# Same as above but for seeding completed torrents (-1 = same as downloading)
#min_peers_seed = 10
max_peers_seed = 35

# Maximum number of simultanious uploads per torrent.
max_uploads = 12

# Global upload and download rate in KiB. "0" for unlimited.
download_rate = 340
upload_rate = 65

# Default directory to save the downloaded torrents.
directory = /home/common/Torrents/Downloads

# Default session directory. Make sure you don't run multiple instance
# of rtorrent using the same session directory. Perhaps using a
# relative path?
session = /home/awesome/.session

# Watch a directory for new torrents, and stop those that have been
# deleted.
#schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=./watch/*.torrent
#schedule = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=

# Close torrents when diskspace is low.
schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=100M

# Stop torrents when reaching upload ratio in percent,
# when also reaching total upload in bytes, or when
# reaching final upload ratio in percent.
# example: stop at ratio 2.0 with at least 200 MB uploaded, or else ratio 20.0
#schedule = ratio,60,60,"stop_on_ratio=200,200M,2000"

# The ip address reported to the tracker.
#ip = 127.0.0.1
#ip = rakshasa.no

# The ip address the listening socket and outgoing connections is
# bound to.
#bind = 127.0.0.1
#bind = rakshasa.no

# Port range to use for listening.
port_range = 49173-49173

# Start opening ports at a random position within the port range.
# port_random = no

# Check hash for finished torrents. Might be usefull until the bug is
# fixed that causes lack of diskspace not to be properly reported.
check_hash = yes

# Set whetever the client should try to connect to UDP trackers.
#use_udp_trackers = yes

# Alternative calls to bind and ip that should handle dynamic ip's.
#schedule = ip_tick,0,1800,ip=rakshasa
#schedule = bind_tick,0,1800,bind=rakshasa

# Encryption options, set to none (default) or any combination of the following:
# allow_incoming, try_outgoing, require, require_RC4, enable_retry, prefer_plaintext
#
# The example value allows incoming encrypted connections, starts unencrypted
# outgoing connections but retries with encryption if they fail, preferring
# plaintext to RC4 encryption after the encrypted handshake
#
encryption = allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retry

# Enable DHT support for trackerless torrents or when all trackers are down.
# May be set to "disable" (completely disable DHT), "off" (do not start DHT),
# "auto" (start and stop DHT as needed), or "on" (start DHT immediately).
# The default is "off". For DHT to work, a session directory must be defined.
# 
dht = auto

# UDP port to use for DHT. 
# 
dht_port = 49162

# Enable peer exchange (for torrents not marked private)
#
peer_exchange = yes

Last edited by tjwoosta (2009-02-11 14:56:19)

Dead Code · 2009-02-11 15:04:03

Thanks for the links, I have been ignorant on this for quite a while.. been experimenting a lot for the last few days..

adamlau · 2009-02-11 21:04:19

aria2.conf for BitTorrent settings:

seed-time=1
seed-ratio=1.0
check-certificate=false
max-upload-limit=128K
bt-max-open-files=1

Everything not explicitly configured is set to defaults. aria2 1.2.0b has additional BitTorrent optimizations, but it is not quite stable enough to run (breaks on HTTP/FTP here).

Arch Linux

#1 2009-02-11 05:17:03

What are your optimized bittorrent settings?

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Re: What are your optimized bittorrent settings?

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