How to setup remote access connection to Torrents

Torrents is a great way to find and download what ever content you want. Torrents is always known for it’s bandwidth consumption. There are torrent apps that you can install on your mobile device, but you need to be careful with the data package usage else you

will end up in paying huge bills. To avoid this you can setup remote access connection to Torrents installed in your PC. This acts more like a remote desktop connection where you will have complete control over your torrents.

BitTorrent Remote is one such app which can be used to handle all your torrents remotely that are running on your PC. I have tried this app and its very easy to use.  This app is secure and enables you to access your Torrents on your home computer from anywhere.

All that you need to do is install this app from Play store on your Android device (the same can be done for other devices from their respective app stores). Once the app is installed on your device you need to create an account from your home machine and connect to this account from your mobile device.

Using this app you can setup remote access connection to add, start, stop, pause, remove your torrents download  on your home machine using Bit Torrent remote. So, by doing this you will not consume your mobile data to download torrent content instead using the remote access connection you can check and control all torrent downloads on your home machine. You can even check your RSS Feeds, check download progress, add more torrents directly from your mobile device to your home Bit Torrent Client. Remember to keep your home machine and also the broadband internet connection on. Give it a try today and let me know if you find this useful.

How to set bandwidth limit in Torrents

Most of us install torrents like Bit Torrent or Utorrent in our machine and then download content without bothering much about the monthly download or upload limit. Torrents is known for pulling all your bandwidth and will slow down all other

downloads. There is a way to set bandwidth limit in torrents client and in doing so you can have better control over download limit.

Follow the following steps:

• Download and Install Torrent Client.
• Go to Options >> Preference >> Bandwidth as shown below.
• You can set upload limit. The limit that you set here is for all torrents put together. Say, if you have kept 5 torrents to download then the limit that you set here is all of these five put together. Here Maximum Upload Rate = zero means the upload limit is set to Unlimited. I usually keep it below 10 kbps.
• Similarly set download limit. Usually I set this to the maximum possible limit or zero (= Unlimited).

This is useful if you have a monthly internet usage limit. You can set very low upload limit and high download limit. Usually, Internet service providers set a download limit beyond which you will be charged or they will lower the speed as they have something called ‘Fair Usage Policy’. You always have an option to buy more and increase the download limit. Note that as per internet service providers the download limit means the total usage – upload and download usage put together and not just the download. Usually the upload speed will be 1/4th the download speed. So, it always better to keep the upload limit as low as possible.

The other reason why you need to set bandwidth limit is to download non-torrent content. As soon as you start downloading something using torrents, all you bandwidth is pulled by Torrents and if there is any non-torrent content that you are downloading then it will almost come down to zero. In the worst case, even browsing or watching YouTube video is not possible.  Say, if your download rate is 1Mbps then set the download limit in torrent client to 750 kbps and keep the remaining 250 kbps for other non-torrent downloads or browsing. You can always change these settings.