Torrent has 131 seeders but is downloading slow

What causes slow torrents? Slow torrent downloads are commonly caused by a few factors. In North America — In Europe — This report found This is commonly used on high-bandwidth data streams, such as: Torrents Skype Netflix Youtube If you ever wondered by your youtube videos are constantly buffering or running in low resolution even though your connection is 10mpbs or faster, the answer is simple.

The easy way to make your torrents faster A significant percentage of torrent users will see a speed boost after signing up for a fast VPN service. Make sure you're calculating speeds correcly. But in reality, Bandwidth Settings in your torrent client. Utorrent displays a little alert triangle with an exclamation if there are issues.

It does need to be enabled both in your torrent client shown below as well as your router settings. If using a 3rd-party firewall software like an Antivirus you will have to do this manually.

Encryption Settings that limit peers. Is Encryption causing slow torrents? Thanks again Reply. Glad it worked for you! Alternatively, check your wifi speed with the free Speed Test app from Google Play.

This means your network is blocking torrent files, or is blocking your outgoing port. To check this, try downloading a Featured Content torrent on another network. Look at the TCP Port number, and increment it up by one.

For example, if your port number is , make it Don't change your torrent app to a macrovision owned thing.. In azureus check you have encryption turned on. Most if not all of us these days are using it on public trackers. If they still don't seem to start try stopping them completely for an hour or so.. A lot of so called seeders are cheating and upping at a couple of bits per second..

Those I avoid because they traffic shape real bad. Try some pr0n with a reasonable number of seeds.. Seeds aren't where your real speed will come from.

I've just changed net. I'm just asking why the torrent speeds vary so much: E. Archived This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. Go to topic listing.