Better to download 1 torrent at a time

Remember me. If you had an account on forum. Your account is still active and your Suprbay username and password will work. Thread Modes. Hey guys! I have been using torrents for a while and noticed that for certain torrents, downloading one at a time will result in better speed than others. Is this usually the case or does it depends on how active people are? I guess if the torrent is not very active, then I should download one at a time?

When torrent is well seeded seed to leech ratio is over 1. When torrent is poorly seeded seed to leech ratio is below 1. Some clients can do "change gears" automatically.

I do multiple if they are slow otherwise I download one fast torrent at a time. Kingfish Some bird probably named Susan. Last Active: Dec 22, Threads: 33 Posts: Most clients have an auto management system with one or two clients having auto stop also so you can add as many torrents as you need and then turn on these features and let the client pick the best speeds and states for the torrents you have based on the health of the torrents themselves.

The only time I download just one torrent, is if it is well seeded and I want that torrent right away. Otherwise, if you're not waiting on something specific and don't care when you get it, just as long as you get it, why not download a whole bunch at a time? They're torrents where you'd expect a huge amount of seeds. With torrenting, trying to keep a lot of torrents running makes them all run slower.

Hi, until i last weekend, when i upgraded to the latest version of bittoorrent i could freely download as many torrents at a time as i wanted. Anyway - the situation has got worse. It does not let me download at all now. Please can you advise further on what I need to do in order to get the torrents working?

Existing user? Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Richardsreds Posted July 22, Posted July 22, The speed at which a torrent will move depends on how many peers and seeders it has. However, if you want your uTorrent downloads to finish in a specific order, you can easily make that happen. Most uTorrent downloads consist of more than one file. Often a single torrent will have dozens or even hundreds of files.

Or you might need them, but you prefer to download them consecutively. Just follow these steps:. Once you do that, the files will start downloading one at a time.

You can even select all the files at once, except for one, and choose not to download them.