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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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I have been reading through this thread but I still need help. I am using bitcomet .59 on a 2.8 processor, and i have optimum online cable and a netgear router.
My download speed is 1150 KB/s (8800 kb) and 115 KB/s Upload.
Now for the problem. On all downloads under 300MB I have decent speeds of 115KB-190KB, but for large downloads (300MB+) it varies from 1KB-170KB never staying steady. I have set the upload to 80% of my total (92 KB) yet that doesnt help. Unfortunately I cannot use port forwarding as I cant access the router, I have no why the router wont let me, conection is either refused or times out, and netgear is the worst customer service humanely possible. It is not a problem with seeds or peers as their are (as i speak) 54 possible seeds and over 2000 possible peers.
Please any advice would be appreciated.
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biggermac
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2. August 2005 @ 11:12 |
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Monkeee, no, you are right, it won't download any faster.
I use another computer on my home network for torrents because it does take hours and in your case a lot more time than than me to get something large, and so if I am using my main computer what it does is to slow it down to an uncomfortable level when opening a folder or whatever, simply because the resources used by the computer are now being split.
That is the only reason that I suggested it because your computer is being going to be tied up getting a torrent, maybe 12 hours or more, and thus you might not like a "slow" reacting computer. But if you are comfortable with it, never mind. Or maybner your computer is faster than mine (Athlon 3200+, 768 MBs RAM). I guess I'll need to get one of those new dual core jobs....
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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DVDBack23,
1st I would suggest using a torrent program that has status lights. I use BitTornado, and a yellow light indicates firewall problems. It should go green though within a few minutes. If you are getting 115 KB/s I am thinking no firewall issues. But still, try BitTornado just so you know one more thing that is not the problem.
I get varying speeds from different torrent connections, even if seeds and peers are similar to another I've downloaded. 600 kbps (75 KB/s or so) or 1 Mbps (1000 kbps or 125 KB/s), and even 2 Mbps at times. Sometimes slower than 600 kbps.
I had this slow down thing happen to me with my P3 on my home network. I do not know if this is the problem, but I had "UPnP" turned on in my router, and UPnP doesn't work for a Windows 98 SE computer, and the UPnP setting was turned off in BitTornado. So I shut off UPnP in BitTornado and haven't had the problem since. I also shut off UPnP in BitTornado on my main computer even though it is Windows XP and should work, because it is shut off in my router, and I don't think it matters for speed though after running without it, but I could be wrong.
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Now, I have to strongly disagree with you about Netgear. Not only have they the best looking routers, but they are very good solid high-tech routers. And easy clear menus to navigate if logged in to it, even having explanations of what it is on each menu element clicked on and what you can do when there..
I had a wireless B Netgear (11 Mbps wireless speed), and I my son wanted a router so I gave it to him and bought a wireless G (54 Mbps wireless speed).
Netgear is free to call to set up the router if you need to do that. Maybe for up to 3 months. After that you still can get free tech support via email. If you are not the registered owner of the router (if you got it used) I don't know what their policy is. But a wireless G 54 Mbps is only $29 if you find it on sale and do the rebates thing. Once in there (logged into the router) the menus are easy to understand, and there is even help text that appears in a far right column explaining what it is you have clicked on and what to do.
But all you need is the address to log into your router, and I believe for different models it is different. So email them and ask what address is needed to login to your Netgear router. Then you have to enter in an ID and password. If it never was changed, the default ID is "admin" and the password is "password".
You want bad customer service - try Norton/Symantec at $29.95 to call for voice tech support.
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I would also suggest, if you run Windows XP with the SP2 upgrade, to look for something (Google it) called the "LVlord" mod. But back-up (save a copy) your registry before you run it, because it does change things and could be dangerous for your computer if all doesn't go right. The SP2 upgrade changed things around so Worms couldn't connect out so fast, but it does cripple some P2p programs, though I don't know how much it cripples a P2P torrent program.
Also don't use any "automatic" or "unlimited" settings where-ever they are.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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I get green lights, I have no NAT error, my max upload speed is set to 66% of my upload bandwidth. Everything seems to be set to what it should be set to, but my download speeds are still pathetic! They occasionally hit around 15, but most of the time they are 0 or 1-5.
I'm using the latest version of Azureus for Mac. Interestingly, this started when I got a new router. However with the last router my speeds were never anything special (about 30, maybe 40) and I never ever saw a green light. Now with this new one I have green lights and no errors, but these awful speeds. What's going on???
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macno,
I don't know. Mac's are pretty foreign to me, and you are stuck with one or two programs that do a function for you while PC guys have 100 programs to choose from. Granted usually the one program that does what you want is good.
You said your up speed is ticked as 66% of your real max. But you don't sat what your limits are. The whole world of torrents was written so that a guy can't come in and start downloading and not share his pieces with others. And if the guy retards his upload speed then in return the program kindly reciprocates a retarded download speed back at him. You must upload well to be able to download well. Some people have the slower DSL and wonder why such a slow download - it might be because they only have the power to upload at 128 kbps (16 KB/s).
Anyways, 66% setting there is a bit low. 80% is a standard. More than 80% and you might take away some of the programs power (I don't know what it does with the bandwidth) and thus your speed will suffer too. Run a speed test at DSLreports.com (run in different places) to see how your really doing with speed.
I don't even know Azereas for the PC, as I've been using BitTornado.
Time to start messing around with configs.
- Turn UPnP off in your torrent program (and in your router if you use one) and see what happens. And another thing to try,
- Since some torrent programs can use different ports (up to port 66,000 or there-abouts try different listening ports, like in the 50,000 range. Don't forget to let your firewall know of them or your router or both if you run a software firewall and a hardware firewall.
- Try setting limits in other places like max peers to 100 or 200. Try max files to open at 50. Of course bump up the max upload speed to 75%. If it works better try 80%.
- And "max connections" should be 4 by default but try it if not. 5 or 6 might be OK for really fast upload maxes..
- Also do not do more than one download at a time.
Also I'll tell you, perhaps Azereas is different, but for most settings changes in BitTornado to take effect I have to close the program, then start it up again.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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23. August 2005 @ 22:09 |
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hey everyone i've been dling fine but lately things have gotten weird. i used to dl at 40-100kb/s....nowadays....i dl less than 20 so if i see 22kb/s on the download speed i get the biggest smile in the world....i run off SBC Yahoo DSL's 1.5mb/s.....my router i went to www.portforward.com n did it all correctly...then i tested it out (tested it about a month ago) on azureus' nat/firewall test for port 6881 since i forwarded that port only....so now i tested that port just for troubleshooting...and it says "Unable to test (invalid port given, or test service failed)" i'm wondering what is up with this because i never saw this before on the forum and i think it is what is tampering with my speeds...if someone would help me it'd be greatly appreciated
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biggermac
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23. August 2005 @ 22:40 |
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It is time to try something different. At worst you'll have more info.
You are using a port that is known as a BitTorrent port (6881). With Azureus you can select a different port. Try something like port 54558 (up to 65000 ports I beleive, stay over port 15000 or so, just because). Also Azureus has a system of lights to tell you your status. I use BitTornado and it's the same deal - choose any port or ports, and a light system. If the light stays yellow I know there is a firewall problem.
So try something else not BitTorrent, unless a newer version of BitTorrent lets you pick a port or port range to use. if you try BitTornado I can probably help (don't use any "automatic' settings, for one thing). Then get back to the thread here and let us know what is going on.
The reason you want to try other ports is that you never know about ISPs worrying about getting sued, who knows, they might be messing with ports 6881-6999 or something...
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hey everyone i've been dling fine but lately things have gotten weird. i used to dl at 40-100kb/s....nowadays....i dl less than 20 so if i see 22kb/s on the download speed i get the biggest smile in the world....i run off SBC Yahoo DSL's 1.5mb/s.....my router i went to www.portforward.com n did it all correctly...then i tested it out (tested it about a month ago) on azureus' nat/firewall test for port 6881 since i forwarded that port only....so now i tested that port just for troubleshooting...and it says "Unable to test (invalid port given, or test service failed)" i'm wondering what is up with this because i never saw this before on the forum and i think it is what is tampering with my speeds...if someone would help me it'd be greatly appreciated
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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ah i get what you mean. well im at 68% with dling a 5gig game so i dont really wanna switch right now...im just troubleshooting with this issue..i will try your idea though, because it would make sense why my port is so slow now....the thing that confuses me is why that 3 weeks after i dl Azureus and learn about BT's and such....it does this...(dl slowly)....also one important fact i forgot to state....i dont share some of the stuff i dl...could that be a prob? and my max upload for ppl is 17kb/s...also...on my router's firewall....would i open ports for random ranges using udp and tcp? oh yes...and if this has anything to do with it...could someone maybe provid me with a reasonable settings for my transfers....(i tested my max down and up in bits and did the math...) my max d/l available is supposedly around 42....and max upload is around 14 i think....thank you very much for your help so far...trying random ports now at least got my speeds beyond 20kb/s....but still under 30 lol
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biggermac
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tegster23,
I am unsure of what you mean by "I don't share some of this stuff." In other P2P type of programs like Bearshare and Kazaa and the others, you can opt to not allow others to grab what you have in your shared folder. But the torrents thing, the original program written being BitTorrent, well, the design is as such that you must upload well to be able to download well. There is no "share" folder people can grab stuff from you. If you are uploading, you are sharing that file. How I understand it is that the game you are grabbing is being broken up into many pieces, and you and others in your circle are passing these pieces around to each other.. If you cut your upload speed the program says "hey, a leech!" and cuts down your download speed.
You must get the upload setting right in your torrent program. You must understand the difference in speed reporting - a small letter "b" and a large letter "B" are different speeds - one is 8 times more than the other. Your ISP is telling you with a b and torrent programs use a B.
Don't depend on an "automatic" setting. Don't worry about setting a download speed max. your max upload speed setting is the important setting
With DSL, the farther you are away from the phone company's equipment, the slower the speed you are going to get from what the max is they promise. (Just so you know, I live in damn self-proclaimed tech capital of the world, in silicon valley Ca. major city, and I can't even get DSL because somehow the house 42 year old I live in is routed so as to be "too far away"). Anywho you say "I run off SBC Yahoo DSL's 1.5mb/s".. that would be 1.5 Mbps max - correct? But your test (you should text at 3 different places, one as close to you as you can get) report says your maximum downspeed to be 42, I am assuming that is 42 KB/s, because 42 kbps is dial-up speed. So in kbps 42 = 42 x 8 which is 336 Kbps. Yahoo says 1.5 Mbps, which is 15000 kbps. Frankly speaking, your download speed sucks. You say max upload is 14. That is 14 KB/s I assume. 14 x 8 = 112 Kbps.. That isn't too keen either - that is only double what dial up will do I believe (if dial up is same up as down speed). Almost everyone's upload is a fraction of their download speed with cable or DSL I believe, but your max amounts are on the slower side. If available, you should pay a little more and get the higher speed DSL. That would guarantee higher minimums, like 1.5 Mbps minimum up to maybe 4 Mbps.. You'll never reach that downloading a torrent but you'll get higher minimum upload speed to which is important, maybe it is 400 Kbps (50 KB/s).
So anyways, you max upload setting in your torrent program should be entered in at more than 80% of your max upload speed you are at. If 14 KB/s is your max upload, then try a setting of 10 or perhaps 11 (the torrent program needs to use that extra 20% for something). But I'll say it again, with such slow upload speed your download speed is not going to go so well - however you just said your max download speed is 42 KB/s, so that sucks already. Your 5 gig file is going to take all day and night even if you are getting your max download capability.
Router - yes if you are using a router you must "port forward" the port or ports you set up to use. With BitTornado and I believe Azureus, you only need one port used, not a range of ports. Only if you want to try two torrent downloads at the same time then you need more than one port used. Also if you run Windows XP it probably is using it's firewall program too. Even though your router is a hardware firewall, Windows won't see it and will run it's own firewall. This is OK, but look there in the firewall settings for "exclude" or some word like that, which excludes certain programs from being firewalled (MSN Messenger is one of them), and make sure your torrent program is excluded.
Conclusion - if your up and down speeds are as you say after testing in several places, you just don't have the ooomph needed even with the best settings to go any faster than about 300 Kbps.. Most torrents I get are 600 kbps or better after building up speed of course. A few very low seeded and peered I get only 300 Kbps. Some over 1 Mbps and even over 2 Mbps once in a while (lots of seeds vs peers). Once I got over 3 Mbps almost all the way through.. Don't ask me why the exact same seeds and peers with one torrent will be completely different speed than another..
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ah i get what you mean. well im at 68% with dling a 5gig game so i dont really wanna switch right now...im just troubleshooting with this issue..i will try your idea though, because it would make sense why my port is so slow now....the thing that confuses me is why that 3 weeks after i dl Azureus and learn about BT's and such....it does this...(dl slowly)....also one important fact i forgot to state....i dont share some of the stuff i dl...could that be a prob? and my max upload for ppl is 17kb/s...also...on my router's firewall....would i open ports for random ranges using udp and tcp? oh yes...and if this has anything to do with it...could someone maybe provid me with a reasonable settings for my transfers....(i tested my max down and up in bits and did the math...) my max d/l available is supposedly around 42....and max upload is around 14 i think....thank you very much for your help so far...trying random ports now at least got my speeds beyond 20kb/s....but still under 30 lol
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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tegster23
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Wow biggermac, thank you very much for taking the time and patience to write that all up. it was all very useful but just 10 minutes ago i got home..started up my 5gig dl and resumed....and now its up at 52kB/s...and all i really did was use some random ports and play with my max upload speed on the torrent im dling....what i mean by i dont share some of the stuff i dl...is that so far i've dled about 10 large files....and i removed them from my upload list so people can't dl them....so im wondering if taht can be the case also...if u dont share the files you d/l....oh yes and i have disabled windows firewall and set up my router's firewall correctly....i also placed my ip into my router's DMZ configuration just in case that helps....and thats pretty much it...my d/l is at about 97% maybe on other files ill dl faster since there are so much more peers than seeds...thank you for your help biggermac, it was very useful info....and lately SBC Yahoo DSL! has been ripping this whole neighborhood off...their advertisements are everywhere and a lot of people in my neighborhood use it
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Right at this moment I am downloading something using Bittornado, and it is 2.73 gig and I have a connection that runs at a little over 3.0 megs. I put the setting for dsl/cable fast, and it set it to 40kb/s for max upload, and 6 max uploads. Also in Prefs I have changed port range both in and out to 65535. This is all I have changed and am currently getting 50-60kb/s at a little over 30% downloaded. Is this correct cause from what biggermac got for speed mine seem slow and I still have 9 hours to go. I am not hooked up to a router or behind a fire wall what do I have to change?
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24. August 2005 @ 19:39 |
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sniper,
that speed seems pretty good, i have a 9100 kbps connection and i sometimes get as low as 70 Kb/s, but normally 110-180 KB/s. As you can see, i have a 3x faster connection than you, and about a 3x faster download speed, depending on the amount of seeds.
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24. August 2005 @ 20:54 |
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sniper78,
I am unfamiliar with Yahoo DSL packages. Your download speed is more than enough because you'll never reach it. What is important is your upload speed - is Yahoo saying your upload speed is 400 kbps (50 KB/s)? Because if so, your setting in BitTornado at 40 KB/s is exactly 80%, which is what they say to use.
You can tweak those numbers there on the main page as you are downloading. Me with cable, I have 400 Kbps (50 KB/s) upload speed - this is what Comcast says. However after testing, I figure I am 350 Kbps upload speed not 400 Kbps.. A setting of 40 KB/s for me is a little to high. I usually use a setting of 33 to 35 (that's using KB/s) as max upload speed. I also tweak max uploads back to 5 from the default 6 "fast cable/DSL" originally puts there.
Just remember, if you set max upload speed too high in your torrent program, your download speed will suffer just as if you didn't put it high enough.
60 KB/s in kbps = 8 x 60 480 Kbps. This is not bad at 30% through, and it might start to go faster. This is all you can expect. But I usually get more. Not always. How many seeds and peers in this download? When i get those fantastic speeds like 2 Mbps there are like 40 seeds and 35 peers, so this isn't usually going to happen, most have a lot less seeds... Also if more than 70 or 80 or 100 peers, it doesn't make any difference it seems.
Also - it just depends on the tracker or torrent circle you are in. You can download one with 12 seeds and 30 peers, then download another right after completion of the 1st thqt has the exact same number of seeds and peers, and the speed could be much different.
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Right at this moment I am downloading something using BitTornado, and it is 2.73 gig and I have a connection that runs at a little over 3.0 megs. I put the setting for dsl/cable fast, and it set it to 40kb/s for max upload, and 6 max uploads. Also in Prefs I have changed port range both in and out to 65535. This is all I have changed and am currently getting 50-60kb/s at a little over 30% downloaded. Is this correct cause from what biggermac got for speed mine seem slow and I still have 9 hours to go. I am not hooked up to a router or behind a fire wall what do I have to change?
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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hey biggermac, just to let you know after reviewing everything you said i d/l at 130kb/s now....and it's very very steady...for Seeds there is 27 connected and 57 in swarm....Peers got 86 connected and 119 in swarm
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> hey biggermac, just to let you know after reviewing everything you
> said i d/l at 130kb/s now....and it's very very steady...for Seeds
> there is 27 connected and 57 in swarm....Peers got 86 connected
> and 119 in swarm
Glad to hear it..
And of course you mean 130 KB/s - with a large letter B, as in bytes, the small letter b mean bits. ;-) I don't think the "K" large or small matters.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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Please Please Please could someone help me with my download speed... Less than a month ago it worked sweet as a nut but recently it just dried up so i reformated the p.c and reinstalled everything with no success at all...
Things that you'll need to know I have bit tornado and azureus clients and previously both applications would both run at the same time but not now neither one works.. Tried a variety of ports on both clients with no success I can get a green light and a green smiley face but no download speed at all permanently say's connecting to peers...
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I have windows XP with SP2..
I don't have a router just a thomson modem plugged into the usb...
I have tried a variety of different torrent sites also no success.
I have a 1mb connection...
Also disabled both firewall's (XP and Kerio) and still no speed so whats stopping it..
I can get connected to seeds and peers but no speed lucky if it hits 6kbs even left connected over nite.. When i return like 1% is done..
I have phoned up my ISP and they say they don't block ports and haven't blocked any..
Theyr's is no limit's set on how much i can download either..
Please please could someone help me fix this..
Maxpower
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Please ignore last message i've been on the blower to my ISP (talk talk technical help) and they say they are doin band width shaping which means that all p2p activity goes through another server and is basicaly cancelled out or somethin... PISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So talk talk have just lost a customer silly silly!!!!
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Ok well i am really t off here i need some help.my situation is... my compuer is hooked up to a router and another computer is 2. i cant seen to get above 15 kbs/s download. like ive been running thru this forum looking for the answer ive tried everything and nothing works. half the time i do what someone sugests and it doesnt work at all just seems to amke it worse. ive tried opening the ports i still ahve them open ive tried the fireal nat ive used everything. including https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2 which tells me that all my ports are stealth and i cant figure out why. they only have like a couple closed bu the rest are stealth like all of them. so i need some help plz..
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dude, how many times do we gotta say it? if you are getting "Stealth" on that test or you get a yellow smiley (basically the same thing) that means the port you have set on your BT program is being blocked by something. that something can be a firewall or also a router, or both. (sometimes even a modem. if you got an external modem outside your PC with cables connected to it, go to its settings. the modem can be blocking ports too, with a thing called NAT)
NOTE: Read This Carefully. Don't Just Skim Through It.
i suggest you focus on trying to open ONE port at a time and just keep trying to make that port say "closed" or "open" on the test. trying to open various ports is futile and makes things more confusing. so just type one port on the BT program and just focus on getting THAT port unblocked. try to forward THAT port on your router's settings and firewalls. i assume you know how to reach your router's settings and forward ports; well forward THAT port on there. the firewall that may be blocking the port may be one that you downloaded voluntarily yourself, like Norton's Firewall, make sure you forward THAT port on there. the other firewall can be the one that comes with XP. now, i just got XP (torrents are our friends :) ) and when I opened Azureus for the first time XP's firewall popped up a message saying "this program is gonna be blocked by the system firewall. do you want to keep it blocked?" Nope! clicked "unblock" and thats the end of that. Some modems, including mine, block ports with this thing called NAT. I go to my modem's NAT settings to forward the port. Do that if you got an external modem. after you think you have forwarded THAT same port on all your firewalls and routers and sometimes even external modems with NAT, then check THAT port on the shields up test (the grc.com website) and it should say "open" or "closed".
IF it doens't say "open" or "closed" than maybe ur ISP is restricting you to forward ports. i dont think there is any other reason.
another thing. you said a couple of ports say "closed" on the shields up test. well... change the port that's on your BT program to one of those that say "closed". and when your BT program is running and downloading something the shields up test should say "open". why? because the port is active, i guess. a program is using it and there is stuff going through it. makes sense right. when it says "closed" it's not active. nothing is going through it. but it's not being blocked either.
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I've tried everything! Even just connected my iBook directly to the cable modem router. I've changed port #'s in Bittorrent, lowered # of downloaders. I also tried XP the same way.I tried shields up and it says my port 6881 is open. I've also tried other clients. Still slow.
One suggestion was to change port 6881 to something entirely different, like 49152. Still slow. I'm using Comcast cable modem and am getting pretty fast upload speeds for other apps, approaching 4mps. I downloaded a 700mb+ linux ISO through mozilla today in about a 1.5 hours. The same file in bittorrent would take over a day. Do the subscription bittorrent sites have better results?
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biggermac
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31. August 2005 @ 22:00 |
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MrGizmo, you say "I've tried everything", but how do we know what your torrent technical know how is, and what you consider "everything"? If you tried it then spend a few minutes writing it all out telling us what it is you tried - or it's OK for us to shoot in the dark and guess just what you might or might not have tried?
I'd be interested in you posting what download speeds you have attained.
1st thing - you are limited to download speed via others upload speeds. Since most people have 250 Kbps (31 KB/s) or 400 kbps (50 KB/s upload, and they are sharing that with others, your download speed is really just combining other peoples uploads.
2nd thing - you will never reach 4 Mbps (4000 kbps / 500 KB/s). I've reached 2 Mbps a few times, 3 Mbps once, but I am happy getting 1 Mbps, and that's a popular torrent. I have to be content with 600 Kbps (75 KB/s) for torrents and I think others would be happy if they got that steady too.
3rd thing - your upload speed settings must be right because the whole torrent technology depends on people passing around bits of the torrent to each other - if you do not upload well it is written to punish you and you will not down load well.
Now, get back to us here with what comcast says your max upload speed is - better yet, test here: www.dslreports.com . test at two places, one as near to you as you can get, lets us know the results. remember Kbps and KB/s is different speed (small b = bits, large B = Bytes, 8 bits = a Byte). DSL reports will tell you both of these speed settings. ---> You want to set your "max upload speed" inside your torrent program to 75% - 80% of what your maximum upload speed really is. Too much and it is as bad as not enough upload sharing (the technology needs that extra to work in).
BTW I use BitTornado, it's a lot easier to configure, or at least at the time when I switched over from BitTorrent.
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I've tried everything! Even just connected my iBook directly to the cable modem router. I've changed port #'s in Bittorrent, lowered # of downloaders. I also tried XP the same way.I tried shields up and it says my port 6881 is open. I've also tried other clients. Still slow.
One suggestion was to change port 6881 to something entirely different, like 49152. Still slow. I'm using Comcast cable modem and am getting pretty fast upload speeds for other apps, approaching 4mps. I downloaded a 700mb+ linux ISO through mozilla today in about a 1.5 hours. The same file in bittorrent would take over a day. Do the subscription bittorrent sites have better results?
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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1. September 2005 @ 04:52 |
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Biggermac....
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What has MrGizmo said thats offensive?
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1. September 2005 @ 19:50 |
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if you use Azureus and need help with configuration or anything with bittorrent there is an IRC chat room you can go to get help. you can chat live with people there and they will help you out with anything that has to do with Azureus.
first, you gotta give yourself an IRC nickname so go to Tools>Options>click on the plus sign of Plugins, then click on Irc. type in a nickname where it says "nickname" and click Save.
now, to connect to the chat room, just click on Plugins (on the taskbar) and then click Irc. u will be connected to the IRC thing and u can start asking questions.
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Hi,
Like to start off by saying that i know sweet f... all about computers.
I have an unwired connection at 256kbps (pretty sure). I'm only able to download torrents at 1-2 kb/s. I might rarely reach upto 5-6 kb/s and sometimes even (hold onto your seats)12KB/S.
It took me just under 3days to download Jet Li's "unleashed".
SOMEBODY HELP PLEASE
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Thanks for your input biggermac..and I'm sorry if my post offended someone. Golly gee willakers, I hope that doesn't happen again.
I have occasionally been able to attain some speeds of 80Kib/s from time to time, but usually I get much slower. I'm sure it has much to do with the size and type of swarm you are in, what types of configurations they have.
I am on a mac, as far as I can tell BitTornado has no mac client. I tried azuerus, but it was a little buggy on my machine, would lock up or crash. (I am on OX 10.4 ).
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