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A RULE OF THUMB:

"Choose the fastest torrent for you".

The fastest torrent for you will be the one with the highest number of seeders and/or leeches. When you search for a torrent BE SURE to look for this information before you download it.

Some website provide a "Health" indicator for the torrent showing how fast your download will be.

Also try this:

If one of the downloads gets too slow for you, try STOPPING it and then STARTING it again. In this way it will reset all connections to the seeders and leeches. I have a 2.5 Mb/s (320 KB/s) download speed, and if one of the downloads reaches 40 KB/s or below, I do this step and the speed jumps up to 90 or 100 KB/s indicating the maximum that I can get from the seeders and leeches out there.

Also, if the listening port of Bitcomet is blocked by a firewall/NAT or not configured for proper access on some router, then the download speed will degrade. Try opening the listening ports for maximum efficiency.

Another long-term advice:

The higher your rank is, the better the download speed.

Good luck for everyone.

Hello Dheeru

First, you have to know the IP of the router, then put it in your browser and the router login screen will come out. You should know login information with sufficient privileges to configure the router.

Now, you have to define a new "rule" in the router telling it to allow application access for Bitcomet. You have to navigate and find the page responsible for any of the following: "firewall", "NAT", or "Port Forwarding" configuration. In this page, define a rule with the following parameters:

1- Application name: Bitcomet (or some other name)

2- Type of port: Both TCP and UDP. (I'm not sure if you only need TCP)

3- Port number of application: ##### (the number indicating the listening port of Bitcomet on your machine).

Then, usually, the page will inform you if you have to restart the router to apply the settings.

After that, go back to BitComet and look at the right most end of the status bar (the status bar is found at the bottom). It should display a yellow circle along with: "Blocked: ###.###.###.###" indicating that your Bitcomet listening port is blocked. Wait a moment and it should go to green indicating a successful connection.

Good luck.