how to increase torrent download speed?

[+evenstar]

I'm on Linksys WRT54G router, and Mac OS X Transmission...

anyone can advise?

[sk.images]

In the ports table of your router configuration create a new port definition for the port used in your torrent software.  This made a big difference to the download speed for me.

[wf7850]

See this for steps in configuring your router.

http://www.portforward.com/

[Michael]

Wah. Port forwarding for what kind of downloads? 

[Nick]

Don't stray guys. Keep this thread legal 

[jacjaymz]

I've gotten a lot of help from reading forums.utorrent.com

I find utorrent 1 of the faster clients around. However, I've not done any downloading on my mac. Oh by the way, the router that the threadstarter is using, it seems prone to hanging / connection errors after maybe a day of leeching.

[Nick]

I've gotten a lot of help from reading forums.utorrent.com

I find utorrent 1 of the faster clients around. However, I've not done any downloading on my mac. Oh by the way, the router that the threadstarter is using, it seems prone to hanging / connection errors after maybe a day of leeching.

That router can be easily flashed to third party linux based firmware and it becomes a powerful piece of hardware 

[jacjaymz]

That router can be easily flashed to third party linux based firmware and it becomes a powerful piece of hardware 

Not able to lay my hands on the Talisman firmware. Was using hyperwrt and it still hanged. Linksys' standards dropped ever since taken over by cisco, ironically.