Optimising Router for Torrent downloads?

Question

I've heard about pert forwarding but cannot find explicit instructions on how to optimise my BT Homehub for Torrent downloads. Can anyone supply step-by-step instructions? Running Windows XP Firewall on a BT Homehub router, 8MB line. Never get more than 30kbps on torrents - thank you.

Answer 1

Hi, here are some tips:

http://torrentfreak.com/optimize-your-bittorrent-download-speed/

Answer 2

In all likelihood you're dealing with problems that optimization wouldn't help you with. For starters, given your setup, optimizing download speed is irrelevant, because your home network has more capacity than your broadband connection. At worst, you might be running a 10BaseT network at 10Mbps, but more likely you're running 100BaseTX at 100Mbps. It's easy for your router to push out everything that comes in. There's no need to prioritize traffic.

Upload speeds, however, are another matter. You might try something that might seem counterintuitive, which is to reduce the number of connections you allow if your BT client allows you to do that. Your bandwidth is partially a function of what you're uploading to your peers, and sometimes uploading more data to fewer clients can get you better rates than trying to download tiny bits from dozens or hundreds of clients. You'll need to find out what works for you by trial and error.

If you've heard about port forwarding I'll assume that you've set up a listening port for your torrent client, which makes you available to more peers and can also help your download rates.

It's worth keeping in mind that there are a number of factors which might be beyond your control. You might be trying to get material from peers which are all heavily bottlenecked and 30Kbps might be as good as you can get. More problematic is the prospect of traffic shaping or throttling. Some ISP's will actually slow down certain kinds of traffic to keep their costs low. BitTorrent clients are a relatively popular target for this sort of chicanery. About the only thing you can do if this is the problem is to try switching from a popular torrent listening port like 6881 to something less familiar. You can also try more elaborate tricks like encrypting traffic that some torrent clients allow, but not all clients can handle that.

Answer 3

http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/homehub.html

Now, not only does it show you how to port forward, but it gives you EVERYTHING on the BTHomeHub.

By using this sites short and simple tutorial I managed to get my downloads going from 15-20 kb/s to 40-70 kb/s and that's quite an improvement.

if you don't know how to log into ur BTHomeHub then follow this:

1.click on start menu
2.go to run and type in cmd.exe
3.in the cmd.exe screen type in ipconfig
4.copy the default gateway into the address page on internet explorer and there.

NOTE: if you do not know what your admin password (you'll need this for the portforwarding) is then the default is usually:
username: admin
password: admin

Answer 4

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