Why torrent downloads faster than browser

From a browser or torrent, it takes a couple hours for me to download something that's 1GB. Downloading anything 10GB+ takes the entire day, usually much more (this one file took me 2 whole days to download, even with a decent speed and seeders). But on Steam, it's pretty realistic to download a large 10GB+ file within half a day.  · You might have 1 megabits/second sustainable upload speed but even then ComCast is known to disrupt BitTorrent traffic, resulting in lower+bursty speeds on both up and down. You probably need to disable DHT, UPnP, LPD, and Resolve IPs. Also, disable incoming legacy connections AND set outgoing encryption to FORCED. Torrents by their nature are shared peer-to-peer, which means that as long as someone in the world has a copy of the torrent and is willing to seed, the file will stay on the web indefinitely. Also, speaking from my own personal experience here, torrent speeds always seem to be faster than regular downloading.

level 1. huw · 8y. Everything steam sends down the pipe to you is compressed while the displayed download speed is based on the decompressed size. This is why you sometimes see downloaded speeds higher than your connection speed. level 2. [deleted] · 8y. In an active Torrent transfer, if the number of seeders is less than the number of peers, your file will take longer to download. The greater the seeder-to-peer ratio, the slower a file will download. For example, if there is only one seeder for a file, and ten peers, it will download much slower than a file that has five seeders and ten peers. For a high torrent download speed, the number of seeders should be higher than the number of leechers. The more is the number of seeders, the healthier your torrent will be.

From a browser or torrent, it takes a couple hours for me to download something that's 1GB. Downloading anything 10GB+ takes the entire day, usually much more (this one file took me 2 whole days to download, even with a decent speed and seeders). But on Steam, it's pretty realistic to download a large 10GB+ file within half a day. The more the seeders on a torrent, the faster the downloads. Other than that, you can forward your ports in order to increase your download speed. Why is the torrent download speed higher than that of a direct download? If you closely look at Torrent you will see a option known as seed. When you download a particular file its not only you downloading many people also download the same file and basically the all act as your downloading servers they all contribute some speed to you and hence torrent rocks!!!!.