Bit torrent download speeds throttled

Luckily there are ways to bypass this problem and still download torrents at a good speed. A simple solution is to get someone else to download the torrent and then you download the files direct from them.

This means no P2P traffic is coming through your connection so no data is being throttled. Here we have 4 free services that download the torrents for you, then you can download the completed files in your browser at close to full speed, bypassing torrent throttling from your ISP. FileStream offers a number of paid plans for its transfer and storage service along with a restricted free plan that offers basic features which should be acceptable to light torrent downloaders.

With a free account you get to fetch torrents up to 1GB in size which are then held on the FileStream servers for 3 days. Firstly create a free FileStream account , once the account is activated you can start supplying torrents to be converted. Paste a Magnet link into the green box or press the green upload button to upload a torrent file from your computer.

Uploading a torrent file gives the additional ability to select specific files from within the torrent for download. The download speed of the files used all of our connection so should be speedy enough for average users. We found FileStream quite fast and reliable and a decent service to use if the 1GB per file and other free service limitations are enough for your needs. Visit FileStream. A good thing about Bitport is when the file is transferred to your cloud storage you can view archives and download individual files inside or stream videos directly from the browser or to an application such as VLC or MPC-HE.

Video files can also be converted and played with subtitles in your browser. Although the free account does say the download speeds will fluctuate, the downloads for us came down at almost the maximum speed of our connection, so this could vary depending on time of day, geographical location or server load.

Visit Bitport. In terms of allowances Seedr is quite generous because it offers 2GB of storage by default, but this can be increased easily by referring friends or writing reviews on your blog or twitter account. The size of allowed torrent file is also reasonable because it can be as large as the amount of storage allowance you have available. There is a limit of 1 torrent transfer at once though. The grey upload button will let you browse locally for a torrent file.

Adding additional torrents while one is downloading will add them to the wishlist which can be accessed by clicking on the star icon. The amount you download from Seedr is not limited and you can download multiple files in parallel. We found the speed good and it downloaded at the maximum speed our 11 Mbit connection could handle. A Seedr Chrome extension is also available. Visit Seedr. BitLet requires Java to function so you need the Java Runtime Environment installed and configured as well as a Java plugin capable browser like Internet Explorer 11 or Firefox.

Edge, Chrome and most other Chromium based browsers do not. BitLet will now have an exception in Java. It may take a few seconds but eventually a Java security window will popup asking to run the BitLet application. Click the tick box to accept the warning and press Run. A file requester window will enable you to locate the torrent file. Click the Download torrent button and at this point the Windows Firewall or your third party firewall will ask for permission to allow the Java platform binary.

Allow it access and choose a folder to save the download to. A green or yellow status circle in the window means you have a connection, red means you may need to allow the default port of through your firewall or router or change to another port which is already allowed via Settings.

The torrent we tried above was downloading about half of the maximum speed of the connection, something like a well seeded Ubuntu Linux distro maxed it out at around 1. On the face of it Torrent2DDL is one of the best and least restricted services out there and would have been a number 5 in our list.

There is no limit to how much you can use and downloads can be downloaded directly, sent to Uptobox or video can be streamed. Below is an example of an ad we encountered after clicking on a file download link. Some of the ads you get served are malicious, the image above is a typical scam asking you to pay for non existent repairs to your computer.

This is similar to the infamous Microsoft and Facebook phone scams. While there are many people who only download legally distributed torrent files or files that are now public domain, there are still more that download copyright protected material. Every piece of data you send and receive goes through their servers and their network.

As a result, they have direct access to all data you transmit. They can directly analyze your data using a technology called Deep Packet Inspection. Since they can identify your data types, your ISP can actively filter an sort your data packets into different categories. They can then selectively block or slow down specific categories of data. This is throttling! How to Visualize Throttling Think of your total internet bandwidth as a glass of water. Data you transfer is the water in the glass.

You can pour the water out of the glass very quickly this is unthrottled data. When your ISP throttles your torrents, they make you sip your torrent data through a straw. The more throttling, the smaller the straw. As a result it takes much longer to transmit the same amount of data through the much smaller data tunnel. Is there any way to prevent throttling?

If you can block the Deep Packet Inspection, you can block the throttling. The best way to do this is to encrypt all data going to and from your computer. If all data is encrypted, your ISP will be unable to read or sort your data as it passes through their network. As a result, you get maximum bandwidth and no torrent throttling. This routes all your data through a third-party server before going to its final destination.

All data transferred between your computer and the VPN server are wrapped in a layer of very strong encryption that makes the data completely unreadable without the key to decode it which only you have. All you have to do is open the VPN software and click connect. The VPN does the rest. Additional benefits of a VPN Beyond encrypting your data, a VPN provides a great deal of anonymity and secrecy when visiting websites or downloading torrent files.

A VPN changes your public IP address which is the only personally identifying piece of information that appears in a bittorrent swarm. This makes torrent activity almost impossible to track.

See why we recommend a VPN for torrents. Is a VPN Expensive? The number of VPN services has grown exponentially in the past few years and prices have dropped dramatically due to increased competition.