by Guest on 2025/10/10 06:06:51 PM
I've been using Tixati for many years but I have recently had full fibre fitted and want to make sure that all settings are correct to get the most out of both.
I've set upload and download @ 50MB/s.
I'm no expert when it comes to this so any help (with as much detail) will be much appreciated.
What is the best port to use?
Should TCP/UDP both still be used?
Should 'Encryption' be used on connections?
I've turned UPNP off on my router, always used to have that on before, which I found out was not a good idea.
DHT is running.
Thanks
by Guest on 2025/10/11 06:40:06 AM
I think you have methodological problems. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Simply put, don't touch anything if you don't know what it does, and run the client with default settings (if you've just installed the fresh version, and had no previous configuration and database). Then, and only in case you get unexpected results, start looking into limits that might affect you.
50 megabits per second is nothing special today. Any torrent client can handle that (unless you are trying to serve dozens of fast peers from a single old HDD). I thought you were speaking about filling posh 50 megabytes per second (400 megabits/s) to the brim, which might be not so simple sometimes, but your service is limited to 150 megabits.
You can test your download speed by getting latest Ubuntu or Debian installation images. To test upload, get a torrent or two of something fresh and popular with hundreds or thousands of leechers, download the files (or a sizable chunk of them), then look at how fast you are seeding (upload during download might be affected by piece priorities, peer selection, and other factors, or it might happen to be just as fast).
Of course, if you have some torrent with just a couple of slow peers, your download rate limit means nothing, and the speed is going to be limited by them.
UPnP is just a protocol mainly used for port forwarding. It is neither “good thing”, nor “bad thing”, it's a configuration tool. You can forward ports manually, or you can let programs do it themselves automatically with UPnP. Unless you can name some specific security requirements that affect your system, turning it on and off changes nothing for you. Please don't be fooled by “helpful” crap you read on the Internet.
Are you sure that you have a gubment loicense for torrenting all that stuff?
by Guest on 2025/10/11 12:24:01 PM
First a little lesson in Internet Service Provider speed ratings. All ISPs show the speeds as bits per second (bps), Tixati and other bit torrent clients show the speeds as Bytes per second (Bps) (the case of the "B" is important). To convert bps to Bps, divide bps by 8. So your connection speed is 150 Mbps (Mega bits per second) equals 18.75 Mega Bytes per second. I would set the "Limit Incoming KB/s" to 18000 and the "Limit Outgoing KB/s" to 12000. Why 18000 and 12000? Because those are "Kilo Bytes per second (KBps)". The 12000 outgoing is because the bit torrent protocol does have some overhead, and there is also the DHT overhead and you *would* like to be able to browse the internet to get all those torrents, right? ;D
UDP>TCP: prefer UDP over TCP connections
TCP=UDP: there's no preference, accept either one
Just leave the Encryption settings at the defaults.
The port can be any number between say 5000 to 65535. Which ever number you use, make sure to manually forward that port number in your router and software firewalls since you have turned off UPNP.
Sorry about the wall of text but many people don't understand the difference between "bits per second" and "Bytes per second" or how ISPs show their speeds.
