Do you want to speed up your Torrent downloads? Then here are 5 tips that could help you. These are just basic tips, and I will be listing some more advanced tips later on on this blog. But start with and make sure you are doing the basics first, before you move on to the advanced.

1. Seed

Downloading speeds will be sub-optimal for everyone unless everyone plays their part and seeds. Private tracker sites are a great example of how the overall speed of the swarm increases when everyone is seeding and downloading in equal measure. So, play your part in seeding and tell others to as well.

2. Be Connectable

Make sure you’re not “firewalled” by opening up your incoming ports or by enabling UPnP in your router, otherwise you’ll be leaving bandwidth on the table.

3. Manage your upload speed

It is all about striking a balance. You don’t want the upload speed to be too high, nor do you want it to be too low. Ideally you want to set your upload speed to be 80% of the maximum possible line speed.Try this handy settings calculator, works for all clients

4. Select the right Torrents

Your download will be faster if you choose to download a torrent where there is a good balance of seeds and peers. For instance, Vuze ranks its search results according to the number of seeds and peers to make this easier.

5. Be Realistic

Check the swarm average and if you’re already above average, then you just need to be patient. If you’re below average, go back and check some of these other things I’ve mentioned.

Much thanks to torrentfreak.com for providing this list of tips. You’d be surprised how much you can speed up your downloads just by following these 5 basic tips. My downloads increased dramatically. Big downloads basically got cut down to about a day rather than several days.