Boosting your BitTorrent Speed
Always look for torrents with the best seed/peer ratio if you want to improve BitTorrent speed. Ideally, there should be more seeds as compared to peers. Another way is to change the port to another range; the default port range is 6881-6999. You can make changes to this in your download client. Turning off the Windows firewall will also help or make changes so that your particular software is allowed as an exception. You can use also other free firewalls in its place.
Some firewalls are known to block all ports used by BitTorrent and other P2P clients. In order to make sure that ports are available, you can manually configure a home router or firewall. Most routers have a “Port Range Forwarding” feature that enables you to configure port settings and direct traffic through a given port number.
In order to increase BitTorrent speeds you can enable encryption in popular torrent clients. This will prevent ISPs from limiting your download traffic. Home networks that function without a router need to set up their software firewall to enable P2P sharing.
You can use TCP optimizer, a freeware utility that can optimize your internet connection. You can increase the download rate to the maximum. Try some these methods, and you can be certain of achieving better speeds with your BitTorrent client.