I have all of this done, and I even tried using port 9151 as that is apparently what Tor comes with as default evident from the settings. Also to select use proxy for hostname lookups, and use proxy for peer to peer connections. Guides online say to just get Tor Browser running, and then configure a Socks 5 proxy for 127.0.0.1 on port 9050. To counter this I have been trying to configure utorrent with Tor using the Tor Browser Bundle - TEMPORARILY - I know this is not what the Tor network is for, I just wanted to use it to get the metadata, pick up a few seeds and get the snowball rolling, and then I can put my connection settings back to normal. torrent file that will just not pick up any seeds. Once I can browse for the torrent and I have it downloaded it works fine 99% of the time, but every so often I will download a. If there are significantly more leechers than seeders, the amount of bandwidth you receive will be lower, resulting in slower downloads.Since Eircom started blocking TPB's website a few years ago I have found customers behind Eircom can still browse it googling for TPB mirrors, or using TPB forwarder addon for Firefox. A leecher becomes a seeder when the full file has been downloaded.

A leecher is a user that is downloading, but is not currently seeding. The number of leechers will affect your download speed as well.Not only will you download it faster, but it is less likely that the file is fake or infected with a virus. Look for files with a large number of seeders. Most torrent sites allow you to sort search results by the number of seeders.The other variables are not controlled by you really - as they consist of the connection speed that you have and the connection speed the seeders have. The two interact together to affect how quickly a torrent can be downloaded. A torrent with a large number of seeders is one such desirable variable and having a low number of leechers is the other.

The speed at which you can download a torrent file is determined by several variables. Download a torrent with plenty of seeders.

How to use tor with utorrent