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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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svntwosix
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12. August 2004 @ 12:59 |
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Okay I went to the Shields Up webpage and it says my ports are closed. I called my dsl internet company and to open the ports and they did that for me but the ports are still closed. My status for BitTornado is still running Yellow. I have a 2wire homeportal system can anyone help? I turned off my Windows XP firewall also.
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cptmrgn
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14. August 2004 @ 19:21 |
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Geetings oh wise ones in the ways of BitTorrent!! I seek your advice. I have had very slow download speeds for weeks now (.05-1.1kbs) with 596bs upload (notice that is bytes). I have tried litterally 20 different fixes and none have worked. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Here is what i have done so far.
1. Wiped HD. Formated. installed Windows XP SP/1 w/ no updates.
2. Installed Virus protection and Azurues and Java. (nothing else)
3. Bought brand new router (Belkin wireless F5D6231-4)
4. Opened ports per portforward.com.
5. www.grc.com shows 6881 open and others up to 6889 closed but not stealth.
6. called suscom (isp) to verify ports open. all are opened except 6969. they will not open it.
Azurues shows port 6881...ok. and i get green smiley faces but speeds that really suck _less than 2k. FTP download is at 200k +. I did alot more configuring before i wiped the HD but since i started from scratch this should be working ...right? Thank You for your time!
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redscorpi
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14. August 2004 @ 22:07 |
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svntwosix, if the shield up page states that the ports are "closed" then the ports are NOT being blocked, u should be getting a green light. if the page states that the ports are "stealthed" then they ARE being blocked. is ur dsl company bellsouth with a westell modem? try typing "launchmodem" (without quotes) on the address bar of an internet browser. that takes me to my modem settings maybe that works for u too.
cptmrgn, i would suggest LOWERING ur "max upload speed" a little bit, (this may help in the case that ur UL speed is too high compared to ur DL speed)to find this option go to View, Configuration, then click on Transfer. u can also INCREASE ur "max uploads" by 1 or 2, this ensures that u connect to more users. SAVE the configuration down at the bottom.
----remember the origianl settings so u can set them back in case this doens't work----
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svntwosix
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15. August 2004 @ 12:26 |
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Thanks red for telling me that my ports are perfectly fine but I am still getting a yellow light on BitTornado. I am with SBC dsl. So now that I know it's not the ports fault, should I try Azereus?
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vraptor
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24. August 2004 @ 14:39 |
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Hi, I'm having some problems with my torrent downloads.
I have ADSL and my ISP uses a router.
About 4 months ago I forward my ports (6881-6889) and I began to download at 60-64 kb/s and it was great, but about a week ago i can't dl more than 10 kb/s.
What happened?
I tried Shields up and the ports are closed. (the port 6888 appears closes but protocol/aplication says MUSE. What is muse??)
BTW I lowered my upload max speed without improvement.
Thanx.
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redscorpi
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25. August 2004 @ 10:11 |
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I don't think we're supposed to be posting about bittorrent on here anymore, are we!?
is the light (or the little round face) green?
i don't know what MUSE is. i have that too. but i don't think it has anything to do with slow downloads and i don't think it's any threat either. I would recommend you to foward the ports up to 6999, some of the newest clients use those ports too, maybe that'll fix ur porb.
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xkensterx
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27. August 2004 @ 22:02 |
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hello can i get some help please ive been trying to download these inuyasha episodes for a long time 155 episodes (30 gigs) but ive tried everything except getting my ports to be "OPEN" or "CLOSED" they are ALL stealth but the problem is that i dont know how to get the ports to be opened or closed can anyone help me please!!! it would be of great help becuase most of the time its at 0kbs..or 1.1kbs..the highest it has been at was 20kbs but that was for about a second then it went all the way back down..PLEASE HELP ME
-Ken
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xkensterx
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27. August 2004 @ 22:03 |
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oh yeah by the way my Azureus shows that the download speed is yellow i dont know how to get it to be green...THANKS AGAIN
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redscorpi
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28. August 2004 @ 06:44 |
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Forward ports 6881-6999 on your firewall. To do this u have to go to ur firewall settings. Your firewall is blocking those ports, forward them so you can connect to more users. The face will turn green and you'll get a lot faster downloads.
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xkensterx
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28. August 2004 @ 09:04 |
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the problem is i dont know how to access my firewall lol because this firewall was given to me by my cousin.
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xkensterx
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28. August 2004 @ 09:14 |
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how do i do that to my firewall is it through router or i can just do it on my computer...i think i got both firewalls on but i dont know how to access the router because my cousin didnt tell me what to do..when i seen him change settings on the router he would go to the internet explorer then type in the IP address...would there be any other way to access the router or would i have to ask him for the IP address
thanks alot
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xkensterx
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28. August 2004 @ 09:15 |
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omg i meant that the router was given to me by my cousin
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mark678
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28. August 2004 @ 19:13 |
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hi. i am new to BitTorrent and i have poor download speeds (0-10 KiB/s) i used that one site listed above and it said i have a 3 megabit connection. i use the basic bittorrent app and i have 50% of a file downloaded and it took about 30 hours. my friend has a worse connection and he downloads a lot faster. I have a linksys router, norton personal firewall, windows firewall and the basic bittorrent client. can someone explain to me why my downloading sucks?
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punx777
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29. August 2004 @ 09:19 |
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i have dsl from frontier net is there anything i can do to make my torrents download faster? no router. no firewall unless something is already on my computer...
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Boredstif
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30. August 2004 @ 07:10 |
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Hi, I have Abc for my bittorrent client. It's going like 30 kB/s but, i keep reading that peoples are going like 150 kb/s. I have sympatico high speed and it usually downloads at 150kB/s. I have a speadstream router. Can anyone help me?
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redscorpi
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31. August 2004 @ 11:08 |
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alright people this is it, this is the last time i'm gonna say this, i'm gonna try to be as clear as i possibly can to explain "how to make bittorrent downloads faster" since it's the name of the thread:
-The best way to get faster downloads on bittorrent is if you have your ports open. How do you know if you have your ports open? Well, if you're using Bit Tornado or Azureus, there's a light that tells you the status of the download (in Azureus it's a round face, a smiley or whatever). NOTE: if you're still using the basic bittorrent client, please download a better one, like azurues or bit tornado.
-Anyway, if you have a yellow light, that means your ports are NOT open. If this is your case, then how do you open your ports? I don't know, it's different for every firewall. Do a little research of your own on a search engine like "google.com", type something like the name of your firewall and the word "ports" or "forward ports", whatever, there's bound to be a website that explains how to open the ports on your firewall.
-when you open your ports and get a green light, ur done, there's really nothing else that can increase ur download speed as much as by opening ur ports, u can try tweaking the client settings, but that usually doesn't really help much.
-so that's it, i know this isn't very helpful, but thats all i know. if there's is someone out there that has more knowledge then me on this, they probably not going to respond, at least i did.
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Chunyu
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5. September 2004 @ 02:44 |
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I am currently a newbie at BitTonado, and i am downloading some huge files around the 3000 MB and i am really having a slow donwload rate...it takes me around the 500 and the 1000 hours to download!! And often there is nothing going on: "0 KiB/s" both the download and upload rate..
I am using a EDIMAX broadband router, i live in the netherlands, using a cable provider named Chello , (no data limits) and i have WIN 2000 PRo, with no firewall installed, i supose.
The speedtest
Communications 782.5 kilobits per second
Storage 95.5 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 10.7 seconds
Subjective rating Good
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true_n00b
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6. September 2004 @ 10:06 |
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hi, im using abc as my bittorrent client. my os is win 98 se and i also hav norton system works. i hav sbc dsl that goes at 1200kbs but abc dls at 0.2kbs and the text is yellow. i hav a firewall in my router which is a belkin wireless. all my ports show up as stealth, and i need help on turning off my firewall.
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redscorpi
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6. September 2004 @ 14:31 |
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For people who wanna inscrease their bittorrent download speeds you may want to download BT Engine. It's a program that's supposed to do exactly that, increase the bitttorrent download speed. I tried it, but like everything else i've tried it didn't work for me.
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JStraw
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6. September 2004 @ 18:07 |
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Hey,
I'm still a bit new at this but I have a question about ports. I have cable service in a house with several PC network. I was getting OK speeds after forwarding 6881-6889 on my router, but everyone else in my house was getting extremely slow browsing. I found a FAQ that showed me how to change my btdownloadgui settings to 6000-6100 (This range is perhaps too large and is making me nervous so I may cut this down soon) and then I updated the router's ports. My speeds are OK now (typically 20-60 with peaks of 200+) and everybody else browsing isn't as slow anymore.
My question is this; Do 2 BT clients have to be on the same port to create a connection? I know everyone seems to tell eachother to forward 6881-6889 (or 6999 for 3.2), but does this only because everybody else uses those or because its just the default. When I start connecting using 6000-6100 does that mean that everyone I'm connecting to is on a port in that range and I can't connect to everyone on 6881-6889? Did I happen to hit upon another popular port range or am I also connecting to the 6881-6889 guys?
My secondary question is: Is it possible to split the port range of the BT client. I know how to do this on my router and I'd rather not leave a large consecutive range of ports open there, but I want to be able to align the client to a more "random" set of ports for my own sanity even if it doesn't make much of a difference.
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Chunyu
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7. September 2004 @ 11:51 |
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peaks of 200 kb/s? OMG! mine was 32 or something. My average rate is about the 5 and 15 kb...i have cable too and no router now and the lights on bittornado are green...
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JStraw
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7. September 2004 @ 14:45 |
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Yes. 200+ is not uncommon if the torrent is very active. Generally if there are 20+ seeds and 100+ peers then someone at some point will connect to me at ~100kb/s alone. The more uploads you allow the more connections it seems you make and the greater chance to hit one of these big fish, and hopefully that guy has a big chunk that you ain't got!
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BarFight
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18. September 2004 @ 09:00 |
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Hi, I'm using Bittorrent for Mac. Info says that the version is Bittorrent OS X, and my download speeds are alright, at about 30kibps, but I think that they should be faster. The uploads are almost always twice as fast, usually around 100 kibps. I have an ethernet connection that usually gets like a meg a second, and I've tried to run a program called Carrafix to limit the upload speed, but that didn't seem to help. What's wrong?
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NyC_Venom
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18. September 2004 @ 09:34 |
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yea i have the same problem plus i have dsl and i do have a firewall(dont know where it is) but when i went on another site it took my ip and it said passed also sayi ng shealth and i dont have a lock on my connection plus i have a router so plz
also i have xp on my laptop and nt on my desktop
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hongwon
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18. September 2004 @ 17:59 |
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hi -- i've been looking through these pages, but most people are fixing things without firewalls -- i have norton security so i think probably everything IS firewalled, but i do'nt know where to go to change settings in order to allow for more ports (like people were doing 6881-6889?).
also i'm kind of concerned because i want to make sure that i'm not opening up my computer to the world if i open more ports -- how do i both open ports to get faster downloads while keeping my computer safesafesafe?
thanks!
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