Monday, December 20, 2010

Speeding up torrents in uTorrent

Most common reason for slow torrents is that the number of seeds are low or the upload speed of the seeds is limited. To overcome this problem

right click the torrent in uTorrent and select copy magnet URI. The magnet URI is similar to
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:RB4BJJ65RL6OEA5STGYG4ER6WW2K5DFX
here RB4BJJ65RL6OEA5STGYG4ER6WW2K5DFX is a 32 bit hash code

go to http://darkfader.net/toolbox/convert/ and convert the 32 bit hash code into 16 bit hash code. And search for the resulting 16 bit code. The search will give alternate download locations. Download the .torrent files add them to uTorrent and allow uTorrent to add trackers from the file.

This approach will be helpful if the availability of the torrent is low or to verify the authenticity of the torrent