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Optimal BitComet Settings
This post is part of the Ultimate beginners guide for torrents article, please read the full guide.
There are many users who prefer BitComet over any other torrent client, it may not be as fast as others but it’s more reliable and will almost always finish it’s download with no problems.BitComet is not that complex in settings, compared to clients like azureus it has basic settings that can be optimized and improve your speed quite a bit with just little changes.
Lets start this guide, first off I will indicate that I am only worried improving your speed, if I don’t mention a settings that means you should leave it as default or change it as you see fit.Also in this tutorial we will need to know how much your download/upload speeds are to modify accordingly, please take a speed test at SpeedTest.net and also open up windows calculator from the accessories since we will be using it for some math.
Go to Options > Preferences. Now:
CONNECTION
General Settings:
- » Global Max Download Rate: – No Limit (If your maxing out, only use 80% of your download speed. eg: 1400 x 0.8 = 1120 KB/s)
- » Global Max Upload Rate: – This has to be set to 80% of your upload speed. (eg: 210 X 0.8 = 168 KB/s max upload rate.)
Task Schedule:
- » Max Simultaneous Download Tasks: – This is the result of your Global Max Upload Rate / 8 (giving 8 KB/s of upload bandwidth for each task).So 168 / 8 = 21.
- » Auto start new task if download rate less than: – No Limit
Listen Port:
- »Listen Port: – from 49154 to 65534.
ADVANCED > CONNECTION
- » Enable DHT network – CHECKED
- » Enable NAT/Firewall Configuration ICS/ICF (XP or later only) – CHECKED
- » Enable UPnP Port Mapping (XP or later only) – UNCHECKED
- » Remove Port on NAT/Firewall (XP or later only) – CHECKED
- » Server mode, support more connections but can’t set practise rate – UNCHECKED
- » Protect against ARP cheating attack from LAN – CHECKED
- » Max Connections per task – Auto
- » Global Maximum connections – Auto
- » Socket start interval (ms) – 200
- » Max simultaneous half-open TCP connections – Auto
- » Use NAT Traversal via UDP – Auto Detect
- » Protocol Encryption (avoid BT protocol blocked) – Auto Detect
Also Read:
- Optimal uTorrent Settings
- Optimal Azureus Settings
- How To: Tweak Internet Explorer Settings
- Comodo Firewall And uTorrent
- BitComet
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it doesnt work it mkes it slower. plz help
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It makes it MUCH slower :mad:
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I think some of these settings may be outdated with the current versions, I’ll work on a new settings configuration post as soon as I can.
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fuck of :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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:?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: its work :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :evil: :evil: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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Really, I’ve learned that all you have to do is turn on the long-time seeding option (I forget what option that’s under). I guess the idea is… if you’re set up to seed later, it will let you download faster now. Find it and try it.
You can still delete tasks from BitComet’s queue as soon as they’re finished. The program just needs to be set to automatically seed when the download is complete.
(This may not be the trick, but it seemed to be the change that sped things up for me.)
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I tryed to update to bitcomet 1.70 from 0.70 and my d/l speed went from 500kbs to about 80, and im talking about files with over 160 connected seeds.I got so pissed cause it took me 2 day and a down grade to .80 to get my speed bk up to 440kbs with 178 connected seeders. I took the settings on this page except for a few diff. ones- 1.global max d/l rate -50 and2- max conn. per task 250, like i said i got my speed back up somewhat to par. I hope this helps. P.S heres my connection speed-Download Speed: 16,000 kbps (1996 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2796 kbps (349.5 KB/sec transfer
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I am a super noob la… Srry everyone. my dl is super super slow(u can’t imagine how slow it is). I did not set anything to my internet nor the bitcomet. So can anyone help me with any settings thats easy for me to speed up my dls? Help greatly appreciated.
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Matthew Michaels Reply:
March 15th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Try uTorrent and the settings I suggest for it on the other article.
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I did not set anything to my internet nor the bit comet. So can anyone help me with any settings that’s easy for me to speed up my dls? Help greatly appreciated.
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