How to prioritize torrent download

Asked 8 years, 10 months ago. Active 7 years ago. Viewed 3k times. Improve this question. Smit Johnth 1, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Many clients seem to be able to prioritize certain files. If it's possible through libtorrent or not I don't know. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Arvid Arvid Re synchronization: not quite, I want 1 client to download "as sequentially as possible" from n other clients that seed that file.

Keep in mind that this does not necessarily mean that the whole file will be prioritized. It is mainly there to provide users with a way to preview media files as soon as possible. Even if some files in torrent get high priority uTorrent first goes through all files for first and last piece.

This is kind of weird.. I am using uTorrent 3. Is there something I have to do to get this option? A bit late, but: This is for prioritizing files inside each torrent, not the torrents themselves. There you right-click the files to choose priority. Hi, Is there an option in uTorrent to add torrents first in queue by default, all new torrents are added to the end of the queue.

Thanks, Ron. Hi, think i have a torrent file of 20 gb which has 20 episodes in it and when i download it, the torrent will start downloading all the episodes at once, I want to set the torrent to download one episode after another, so that i can watch episode 1 while the episode 2 downloads instead of waiting for the whole 20 gb to download.

Is there an option in utorrent to set it to download 1 episode after another in a large single torrent file. Click on the torrent you want, on the lower right corner click on the 2 arrows pointing up, select files. You also can select only the first file when adding the torrent and do the right click priority step when the time comes to download the rest of the files. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

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Share them with us in the comments below! Your email address will not be published. Quick Links Speeding up torrent downloads with uTorrent Let it through your firewall Add more or faster seeders and peers Allocate the correct bandwidth Change the port Streamline queueing Prioritize a torrent Add more trackers Switching Clients. June 23, at pm. Hoerny step bro says:. June 2, at pm. January 23, at pm. Hebe says:. February 12, at pm. October 23, at pm.

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