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What's the optimal way to download?


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I've noticed my download rates are highly variable. Sometimes when I have just 10 torrents downloading, I'm only getting 80kbps. If I increase that to 20 or 25, I can get up to like 400kbps.

Other times though, having 15-20 downloading is actually much slower than having less.

I'm guessing it depends on the specific torrents.

I always seem to have 30-100 in the download queue and I hate when I'm only getting 1/5 my possible download speed. Is there any general guidelines to maximize your overall download rate?

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Me:

║ 512 kbit/sec ║ 47│ 4║ 40│ 100║ 4│ 2║

These settings are just stupid though. I applied them for the sake of it and my total download went to 80kB/s when it was at 280kB/s before. Maybe the settings are more efficient by some means, but it surely isn't measured by overall download speed.

What if there is only 1 peer seeding the torrents at 2kB/s? My total download rate would be 4kB/s for like a week with only 2 active.

My old values were much higher, right off that chart. I realize they probably aren't the most efficient for me either, so I wanted to tweak them.

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I'm interested in finishing downloading the torrents as fast as possible.

A. 2 active, at 80kB/s

B. 15 active, at 280kB/s

Which is stupider? Obviously the recommended one (A) is stupid as it will take 3.5x longer to download the torrents, which is my ultimate goal.

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My goal is to have as close to 500kB/s download speed as possible, 24/7.

Most of my torrents have only 1-2 seeders.

Any other advice would be great.

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What's your problem dude?

If I have 10 torrents active I can easily have 400-500kB/s downloading in total. If I have 2 torrents downloading, there's almost no chance of that, because barely any seeders can seed me 200-250kB/s.

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