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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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OK new to this so please be kind.
I have NTL 1 meg and doing a speed test to find the 80% to enter on Azureus.
The test tells me I have downstream of 962 KBps (120.3 KB) and an Upstream of only 88 Kbps (11 KB) can this be right ?
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redscorpi
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yeah, that could be right. hopefully you were not downloading anything while taking the test, otherwise these are probably lower results than what you really have.
take 80% of 11 and put that on azureus's "global max upload speed" option.
and make sure you get a green smiley.
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mylifesuc (Newbie) wrote: i am in a college dorm and my bt download speed is horrible its like 2kb usually. i went to shields up .com and checkd and all my port from 6881 to 6889 were all opened. i dont know why is it so slow. i went to several test bandwidth and it said my bandwidth and speed were pretty good. i did everything i could turing off firewall and disbaling anit virus softwares but it still doesn't help. can anyone help me bt download worked for me last semester where i got to something like 30kb per second but this semester i never seen anything go up to even 5kb per second. I mean there was lot of source but the problem is that each of the source is only giving me like 200bytes or 300 bytes not one of them can even give me 1kb. does anyone know what might be the problem? I have tried using sharzaa and bit comet but all seem pretty slow. I have an window xp sp2 and i have everything updated.
Being in a college dorm means what as far as your broadband connection. Do you have your own cable or DSL connection or do you go through a college server?
See, you say "all my port from 6881 to 6889 were all opened" - those are pretty much known as ports used by Torrent users. Maybe those ports have been filtered. I've heard even some ISPs might filter these ports to be slow (however I've never heard someone mention it directly). But why are you using those ports - if the torrent getting program you use has to use those ports specifically get another program. I use BitTornado. Azereus and other torrent programs also allow other ports use. Ports range up to like 65000. Use some above 14000 perhaps.. All you really need is one port if you do one at a time.
For more general info that might help go to this page
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/37/89259
and see what biggermac (Member) posted, message date: 29. October 2005 @ 18:25
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replying biggermac i think i go through a college server. i have used bitcomet beside sharzaa and it was the same result. if it was the problme with the college server sitting up a firewall or something thats not configurated right in a router, would there be anyway i can get around it? like find a hole through it or something?
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Hi all. Been using Bit torrents for bout a month now.
Just wanted a little advise.
I use Bitlord.My internet speed is 2mbps. Ive set the upload rate proportional (80%) to my broadband upload speed.-I noticed a big download increase when I did this.
I have Windows XP-ive excluded bitlord in my windows firewall.
Im getting speeds around 30-38KB/s for a 2GB file with 49 seeders and 644 leechers.
What Im not sure of is do I need to do anything with the listening port-Bitlords port is set at 22094-do I need to open this or do I not need to do this as I have excluded Bitlord in my Windows Firewall? (When I go into my firewall settings and go into ports, it asks for a port number and a name-what name would I put in here)
Also, I do not really know what a router is, I do not think I have one.
Your advice will be much appreciated. Thanks.
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mylifesuc (Newbie)wrote: replying biggermac i think i go through a college server. i have used bitcomet beside sharzaa and it was the same result. if it was the problme with the college server sitting up a firewall or something thats not configurated right in a router, would there be anyway i can get around it? like find a hole through it or something?
Well shoot yea, you are behind a router which is a hardware firewall. You should Google a few key words and see what comes up. You could try these ports using BitTornado which lets you configure though I don't know it it'll work (Googled):
> Most router open port 23 for remote connection to them,
> and port 80, for a comftarble Web Interface Configurations.
> and also port 3389 (Which is the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP))
> is not related to this topic.
Also Google for a program that might test all ports for outgoing holes, because that is what you need to be able to send out and join the circle as a high speed contributor.
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...and lofty2x2(Newbie) wrote: Hi all. Been using Bit torrents for bout a month now. Just wanted a little advise. I use Bitlord.My internet speed is 2mbps. Ive set the upload rate proportional (80%) to my broadband upload speed.-I noticed a big download increase when I did this. I have Windows XP-ive excluded bitlord in my windows firewall. Im getting speeds around 30-38KB/s for a 2GB file with 49 seeders and 644 leechers. What Im not sure of is do I need to do anything with the listening port-Bitlords port is set at 22094-do I need to open this or do I not need to do this as I have excluded Bitlord in my Windows Firewall? (When I go into my firewall settings and go into ports, it asks for a port number and a name-what name would I put in here) Also, I do not really know what a router is, I do not think I have one. Your advice will be much appreciated. Thanks.
If your computer connects right into a broadband modem (cable or DSL) you do not have a router. A router is th go-between when two or more computers share one modem connection. By doing this, being the brain that knows what came from who and who gets what, the router becomes a firewall in itself regardless if you run a software firewall or not.
You don't mention just what your upload speed is. Better download speed in theory is linked to how well you upload. 2Mbps (2MBps=250KB/s=2000Kbps) down I reach very rarely. That torrent file you mention 49 seeds and 644 leeches (for me it is seeds and peers in BitTornado, seeds being complete copies, peers those with incomplete copies and shown the percent of completeness of each). But I never ever see that many leeches (er.. peers) in BitTornado, and I don't know if it is shielding me or not showing all or what because I've seen others mention high numbers like that too.. The other day I reached a miracle speed of 3 Mbps briefly but was well over 2 Mbps a lot - it was like 49 seeds and 250 peers (popular torrent as you can see). Then two more later not so mainstream popular, and get this, One was like 6 seeds and 25 peers and I was at 1 Mbps almost which is excellent especially for that amount, then the next one was similar numbers and I could not get above 400 Kbps (50 KB/s). More like 300 - 250 Kbps (40 KB/s).
Do not base your speed on one torrent they can be vastly different with exact same seeds and peers.
You got 38 KB/s = almost 320 Kbps. Not good, but who knows that seems to be a lot of peers vs seeds. If you were ahead of most then you'd get a sucky speed too... And again - your upload speed is? And 80% of that is?
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Thanks for the info biggermac.
I tested my connection speed on one of those web sites.
My d/l speed is 1386 KBPS (173kb/s)
My upload speed is 233KBPS (29kb/s)
I probably need to experiment with various download-earlier with this big 2.9GB file I was getting 45-50kb/s, but usually 30kb/s - this is much faster than I was getting on my old broadband speed last week of 512kbps(I just upgraded to 2Mbps)
Still not sure if I need to open any port, as I have enabled bitlord in my windows xp firewall-does this mean I do not have to open any ports up?(I do not have a router-thanks for telling me wat one is!)
Many thanks
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> I tested my connection speed on one of those web sites.
> My d/l speed is 1386 KBPS (173kb/s)
> My upload speed is 233KBPS (29kb/s)
> I probably need to experiment with various download-earlier with
> this big 2.9GB file I was getting 45-50kb/s, but usually 30kb/s -
> this is much faster than I was getting on my old broadband speed
> last week of 512kbps(I just upgraded to 2Mbps)
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> Still not sure if I need to open any port, as I have enabled
> bitlord in my windows xp firewall-does this mean I do not have to
> open any ports up?(I do not have a router-thanks for telling me
> wat one is!)
> Many thanks
If you added the correct BitLord exe file that runs it into the XP firewall's Exclusion or is it Exceptions area (forget what it's called) Then it shouldn't firewall any ports for BitLord. I don't beleive you have a firewall issue because you have attained about 300 Mbps (in torrent language that's about 38 KB/s), however if that's all you ever get with other popular torrents then I would say there might be a problem. You should experiment with things like setting a max peer rate (leech).
If you got BitTornado you get a colored light system and you'd know if the light stayed yellow well into the torrent there is most likely a firewall problem. If your download rate doesn't improve after a few more tries with popular torrents give it a try. I had 250 up 3 Mps down before comcast went to 400 up 4000 down (though I have more like 375 up) and at times I achieved good numbers with 25 KB/s set as max upload at 2 Mbps (250 KB?s), and your up speed would probably be set something like 23 KB/s I'd think.. And did you run a couple of tests at different points too to get the speeds you posted (one close and one farther away)?.
I'm still thrown by someone saying over 600 peers.. I just don't see it with BitTornado and I reset it to allow unlimited.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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Hi All
Now LISTEN CLOSLY> HERE IS HOW TO FIX YOUR PROBLEMS. It has notting to do with your firewall or anti-virus...forget all that. The problem is with SP2. Microsoft added a tcpip limit in the tcpip.sys. It causes your connection to overflow and sometimes crash. It makes it slow for sure and makes it impossible to browse when downloading torrents. Ok here is the fix for it. Very easy, you just have to change the tcpip limit. The following patch changes it from 10 to 50. I found I was still having problems so I changed it to 1000. This just makes it the same has removing it. With that, problem solved. hoo...here is the patch
http://www.lvllord.de/?url=downloads&lang=en
When it askes top change to 50, enter c and put 1000, then enter and then reboot. Problem FIXED.
Have fun guys
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16. November 2005 @ 05:28 |
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Hi again Biggermac.
I think wat u said is very true-it all depends on wat file ur downloading with regards to number of seeders and leechers.
Im downloading a 750mb file on Bitlord, with 18 seeders and 50 leechers and im getting speeds maximum of up to 126kb/s, averaging around 75-85 kb/s and ive only just started downloading it.(infact its now averaging around 100kb/s (is this a decent speed for a 2mbps broadband connection?)
Think ill give Azureus a try, ive also heard good things about bitcomet, bit tornado, and a few others.
But like you say, it all depends on the torrent.
Many thanks.
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Hi All
Now LISTEN CLOSLY> HERE IS HOW TO FIX YOUR PROBLEMS. It has notting to do with your firewall or anti-virus...forget all that. The problem is with SP2. Microsoft added a tcpip limit in the tcpip.sys. It causes your connection to overflow and sometimes crash. It makes it slow for sure and makes it impossible to browse when downloading torrents. Ok here is the fix for it. Very easy, you just have to change the tcpip limit. The following patch changes it from 10 to 50. I found I was still having problems so I changed it to 1000. This just makes it the same has removing it. With that, problem solved. hoo...here is the patch
http://www.lvllord.de/?url=downloads&lang=en
When it askes top change to 50, enter c and put 1000, then enter and then reboot. Problem FIXED.
Have fun guys
lmao. u gotta love this know-it-alls. they come in here thinking they got the answer for everybody and yet you can tell by their inital statements that they haven't read a single bt faq and don't know a thing about what they are talking about.
although i gotta give it to ya. that tip about the tcpip.sys was a good one. i looked more into it more and it seems to be true. tried it and seems to have improved browsing.
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16. November 2005 @ 16:34 |
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> although i gotta give it to ya. that tip about the tcpip.sys was a
> good one. i looked more into it more and it seems to be true.
> tried it and seems to have improved browsing.
You know I've posted about the lvlord mod more than once. Well I think that must be the same one. I mentioned it messes with your registry so save it 1st. I didn't add in how to change the mod's 50 up to 1000 though. I understand he 10 limit was put in place by SP2 to help stop WORMS from proliferating quickly. This mod I think will be more noticeable with older style P2P programs. But still I go green sooner than before. Perhaps I connect faster after losing a contact in the circle.
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Sorry if I offended anyone here. Its just that I looked to fix my problem for the past 3 months. I figured it out and wanted to share it with people so they could fix their issue.
What I hate more is people who bring down others to raise them self up. I pitty you....
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Sorry if I offended anyone here. Its just that I looked to fix my problem for the past 3 months. I figured it out and wanted to share it with people so they could fix their issue.
What I hate more is people who bring down others to raise them self up. I pitty you....
hey man, i said the tip was a good one. the only thing i don't like about your first comment is that it says to everyone that firewalls don't have anything to do with getting slow download speeds. and the fact is firewalls have everything to do with it.
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You know I've posted about the lvlord mod more than once. Well I think that must be the same one. I mentioned it messes with your registry so save it 1st. I didn't add in how to change the mod's 50 up to 1000 though. I understand he 10 limit was put in place by SP2 to help stop WORMS from proliferating quickly. This mod I think will be more noticeable with older style P2P programs. But still I go green sooner than before. Perhaps I connect faster after losing a contact in the circle.
i dont recall you posting anything on here about lvlord or the tcpip.sys patch lol
anyway, i want to recommend something too. i was told in the Azureus IRC channel that this program called Cfosspeed was going to improve my BT download speeds and browsing capabilities. download it and give it try, if it don't work, uninstall it. it's that simple. but it doesn't hurt to try it.
i tried it and although it is hard to say if it has really improved my download speeds, i can say that it HAS allowed me to upload at maximum capacity without affecting browsing (which the program claims will do this for you).
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redscorpi (Member) wrote:
i dont recall you posting anything on here about lvlord or the tcpip.sys patch lol
The last time I posted about it was in my big catch-all suggestions post. Page 37: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/37/89259 my posted tag dated : 29. October 2005 @ 18:25 (biggermac). Look down around the number (10) recomendation I beleive..
I know..... I am invisable. I must have posted about it at least 3 times..
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You know I've posted about the lvlord mod more than once.
You've posted it so many, I've lost count! Seriously guys read the posts, there nothing more annnoying than the thread repeating itself..
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I have been looking all over the internet to learn how to increase my BT download speed, but i can't find my situation and was wondering if any of you could help me out. You see, I don't have a router to configure, and i've opened up my ports, but i'm still getting slow dl speeds. I currently have a direcway satelite system for my interent, and the main cable connection goes through the direcway reciever and transmitter devices (acts as a modem would on a regular cable connection)(There is no accessable firmware that I know of on the transmitter or the reciever so there is no way to open ports on it that I know of), from there, the receiver plugs in through USB into my host computer. I am using Azureus as my BT program and is installed on a seperate computer than the host computer. The way I get interent onto my computer by enabled internet connection sharing on the host computer, and then the ethernet cable of the host computer is run into a 10/100mb hub, and I'm connected to the hub. So if there is no router to configure, and my firewall is shutoff, why am I still getting 0-5kb download speeds? Any help would be appreciated.
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17. November 2005 @ 15:45 |
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i have tried download the patch to fix the limit of tci ip by replacing the tciip.sys but it still didn't help my bt dl speed. nothing has changed.
also i have notice something else my port 6969 is blocked. so i am always having problem connecting with the trackers. some of the bt won't work at all. and the ones that work are very slow.
i wonder do anyone think that maybe port 6969 could cause slow download speed.
i mean on some of my bt download i get a lot of source but each source only gives me a couple of hundred bytes.
please if anyone know something about this pls let me know
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The last time I posted about it was in my big catch-all suggestions post. Page 37: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/37/89259 my posted tag dated : 29. October 2005 @ 18:25 (biggermac). Look down around the number (10) recomendation I beleive..
oh you did mention it! my bad. i guess i missed it cuz im also one of the helpers here not one of the helpees lol
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I don't even know about hubs, they are very similar to routers, aren't they?
Anyway regardless, I'll tell you why you probably are not getting good speeds. I checked satellite broadband at one point. I checked DirecWay (I have a satellite TV connection through DirecTV BTW) and even though in the commercial the lady keeps saying "super-fast", frankly, it's not. They won't even mention (at least not when I looked) just how fast they are. I have come to the conclusion that they're maybe 300 Kbps download and at dial-up speed (56 Kbps) or a bit faster upload speed. They only have so much bandwidth to share I guess and it ain't pretty.
Now, you must realize that the torrent programming is written this way: In order to achieve good download speed, you must share, and, you must share very well (good upload speed). if you can't upload well you can't download well, and you can't upload well. Hell, you can't even download that well really. (Even downloading say a 350 MB 1 hour TV show would take a 300 Kbps downloader many hours).
Remember that 300 Kbps = for torrent programs about 37 KB/s (Kbps and KB/s meaning different speeds you see).
Plus I also read (this was at least 6 months ago things might have changed) that if you are a habitual downloader instead of a occasional downloader they will cut down your speed. They just can't have people downloading a lot they don't have the bandwidth to share.
Don't get me wrong I think satellite Internet is a good option, it would be great for Internet surfing and occasional downloads. - but only if you cannot get DSL or Cable broadband. Satellite offers people who build a house in the boondocks a good choice, maybe even off-grid and away from all wires and using photovoltaics for electricity, a way to get on the Internet an now you can have an Internet driven telephone. And of course have wonderful digital TV reception.
Now that I have someone that subscribes - Did they tell you what is your upload and download speed ? I am curious if it's better than I surmised a while back...
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I have been looking all over the internet to learn how to increase my BT download speed, but i can't find my situation and was wondering if any of you could help me out. You see, I don't have a router to configure, and i've opened up my ports, but i'm still getting slow dl speeds. I currently have a direcway satelite system for my interent, and the main cable connection goes through the direcway reciever and transmitter devices (acts as a modem would on a regular cable connection)(There is no accessable firmware that I know of on the transmitter or the reciever so there is no way to open ports on it that I know of), from there, the receiver plugs in through USB into my host computer. I am using Azureus as my BT program and is installed on a seperate computer than the host computer. The way I get interent onto my computer by enabled internet connection sharing on the host computer, and then the ethernet cable of the host computer is run into a 10/100mb hub, and I'm connected to the hub. So if there is no router to configure, and my firewall is shutoff, why am I still getting 0-5kb download speeds? Any help would be appreciated.
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Heya peepz. I've tried some methods mentioned here but they still won't work.
1.) My health is green (fine) but my download speed is like 3/4kb. When direct downloading my speed is usually around 50kb.
2.) Azureus has this NAT error when I try to test out ports.
3.) In-built XP firewall is enabled but I've let ports 6881/6882 open. For some reason my IP changed when I restarted my comp and now I'm confused if I should change the IP address when I first opened a port..
Plz i am a newb at this i just got ADSL i wanna enjoy it =[
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
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Heya peepz. I've tried some methods mentioned here but they still won't work.
1.) My health is green (fine) but my download speed is like 3/4kb. When direct downloading my speed is usually around 50kb.
2.) Azureus has this NAT error when I try to test out ports.
3.) In-built XP firewall is enabled but I've let ports 6881/6882 open. For some reason my IP changed when I restarted my comp and now I'm confused if I should change the IP address when I first opened a port..
Plz i am a newb at this i just got ADSL i wanna enjoy it =[
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
Tell us your upload speed and download speed. You can test here:
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
Test close to you and run another at a different test site. Make sure you understand when reporting your speed that Kbps and KB/s are two completely different speed notations. (125 KB/s = 1000 Kbps = 1 Mbps).
There is a lot of help posted. Look around. I posted a big catch-all one that might help you on Page 37: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/37/89259 my posted tag dated : 29. October 2005 @ 18:25 (biggermac).
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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just an fyi and hub and a router are a little different. bascially what a router does is that it will act similar to a DHCP server, assigning an IP to anybody on the network that request one, and then allows communications through a built in switch, where as a router doesn't support actual routing of IP's, but it used to transfer data through an internal network. (thus, we have the internet going to the host computer, and ICS enable on it to transfer the internet thorugh to the other computers). So i just don't know what i need to configure. As far as download speeds with satelite(ya, i live the boondocks and that's why i dont have dsl or cable)I'm entirely sure what the quote, but i believe dl is supposed to be around 700kbps and upload right about half of that, so you would expect a slower connection that you would get with a 4mbps line from cable, but in reality its your own dedicated connection, where as with cable you share the connection as a whole with the neighborhood. Satelite is good, and bad at the same time. dl is great just due to the fact that it spikes the dl speed and then slows it from there. So what that means is that for the first second, i get right around 3.5MB/sec and it will slowly depreciate to about 120KB/sec after about 10 seconds. as far as upload speed it sux! i tested it out on one of those connection testers and only reported 5KBps, although i've uploaded stuff to my webserver at about 12KBps, so thats the story with the satelite. As far as Azureus goes, I only get a yellow face (kind of like in other programs, a yellow face means there is a NAT error and the port can't be opened). I first tried to open the ports in the windows XP firewall on both mine and the host computer, and then that didn't work so i just went ahead and shut off the firewall on the computers completly. There is no other firewall and i have also configured norton antivirus(i dont have the firewall, just the antivirus) to allow Azureus and java through. I just don't know what else to do. I just want to get rid of the stupid yellow face lol. Now I have heard that there is something called port stealthing, but I am unfamiliar with this. Is there a way i can truely find out if my ports are in fact open, and if they are stealthed or not? like i said, i just want to get rid of the stupid yellow face, if i'm still getting slow dl speeds when everything is green, then its probably the internet. Thanx for the help!
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i am a NooB on bittorren. and i want to know more about the accelerator pro for bittorrent so i can download files faster.plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help.
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but i believe dl is supposed to be around 700kbps and upload right about half of that, so you would expect a slower connection that you would get with a 4mbps line from cable, but in reality its your own dedicated connection, where as with cable you share the connection as a whole with the neighborhood.
Yes share with the neighborhood, but where I am at I don't think I do much sharing. Even if I did 4000 Kbps might be 2500 Kbps at the busiest times and that is still much faster than any torrent you can retrieve (except once in a blue moon).
700 Kbps is a lot faster than when I looked into it and I had to surmise it looking at other places not DirecWay's website because they never mentioned it, only the lady's voice from the commercial says "super fast". I understand that satellite has latency or whatever it's called (slow reactions - not good for online gaming.Quote:
Satellite is good, and bad at the same time. dl is great just due to the fact that it spikes the dl speed and then slows it from there. So what that means is that for the first second, I get right around 3.5MB/sec and it will slowly depreciate to about 120KB/sec after about 10 seconds. as far as upload speed it sux! I tested it out on one of those connection testers and only reported 5KBps, although i've uploaded stuff to my webserver at about 12KBps, so thats the story with the satelite.
And there-in lies a problem, even if you could get the green light - if the torrent formula holds true then you are not upload well at all and the torrent won't allow you to download fast. Most torrents except the most popular, you have to happy to get 600 Kbps (75 KB/s). 12 (KB/s) x 8 = 96.. If you could do 96 Kbps you might be able to get something going a bit I don't know, however the formula is set it to 80% of that and so you are down to 9 KB/s or 10 KB/s which is what, 75 Kbps - a bit faster than dial up and the torrent is going to think you're a big leecher..
Also, as far as i understand it, a firewall doesn't block outgoing, only incoming, so you are supposedly already achieving you best upload speed.Quote:
As far as Azureus goes, I only get a yellow face (kind of like in other programs, a yellow face means there is a NAT error and the port can't be opened). I first tried to open the ports in the windows XP firewall on both mine and the host computer, and then that didn't work so I just went ahead and shut off the firewall on the computers completely. There is no other firewall and I have also configured norton antivirus(I dont have the firewall, just the antivirus) to allow Azureus and java through. I just don't know what else to do. I just want to get rid of the stupid yellow face lol. Now I have heard that there is something called port stealthing, but I am unfamiliar with this. Is there a way I can truely find out if my ports are in fact open, and if they are stealthed or not? like I said, I just want to get rid of the stupid yellow face, if i'm still getting slow dl speeds when everything is green, then its probably the internet. Thanx for the help!
Since some modems are firewalled you have to think maybe yours is too. You have to be able to enter into the modem like a router and change some settings.
Now let me add - when I got Norton SystemWorks 2005 (update from 2004) when installing anti-virus part came on and asked if it could disable my windows firewall becauese it had something going on - it didn't say "this is a firewall" but it is. So if you have 2005 then go in there into Norton Anti-virus as to be ignored and find where to add in program names (the exe file) and path it to there. It can't hurt anyways..
Try BitTornado just to see if something else gives, it has the same kind of colored light system. Azureas says it is a "Java BitTorrent Client" and I know it is a superior program but there have been a few people whose computers just didn't like it.
But my final question too is - anything to what I said about DirecWay seeing you download a lot or for an extended period and cutting you off or at least cutting your download speed way down? I am not imagining this I saw it in the small print at their website, but that was maybe as much as a year ago or even more.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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