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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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flykid83
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11. February 2006 @ 05:37 |
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(1st time running with out bit torrent open)
2006-02-11 10:24:25 EST: 5301 / 140
Your download speed : 5301 kbps or 662.6 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 140 kbps or 17.5 KB/sec.
(2nd time running with out bit torrent open)
2006-02-11 10:26:15 EST: 5254 / 140
Your download speed : 5254 kbps or 656.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 140 kbps or 17.5 KB/sec.
(1st time running with bit torrent open and only on download going at tops 15kbs)
2006-02-11 10:31:21 EST: 2115 / 68
Your download speed : 2115 kbps or 264.4 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 68 kbps or 8.5 KB/sec.
(this one bit torrent was solowy getting started as I opened it up 30 secs ago)
(2nd time running with bit torrent open and only on download going at tops 15kbs)
2006-02-11 10:32:25 EST: 143 / 29
Your download speed : 143 kbps or 17.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 29 kbps or 3.6 KB/sec.
(this one was 3 minutes into downloading)
(3rd time running with bit torrent open and only on download going at tops 15kbs) Doesn't even let me run becuase it's to slow......
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I know I should be only downloading 1 to 3 torrents at a time but I had such a good connection I just went with 15 and i woulf get stuff done in an hour to two hours. And I did the patch as well as change ports with closing xp firewall and getting Sygate Personal Firewall
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biggermac
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flykid83 writes:
(1st time running with out bit torrent open)
2006-02-11 10:24:25 EST: 5301 / 140
Your download speed : 5301 kbps or 662.6 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 140 kbps or 17.5 KB/sec.
(2nd time running with out bit torrent open)
2006-02-11 10:26:15 EST: 5254 / 140
Your download speed : 5254 kbps or 656.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 140 kbps or 17.5 KB/sec.
(1st time running with bit torrent open and only on download going at tops 15kbs)
2006-02-11 10:31:21 EST: 2115 / 68
Your download speed : 2115 kbps or 264.4 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 68 kbps or 8.5 KB/sec.
(this one bit torrent was solowy getting started as I opened it up 30 secs ago)
(2nd time running with bit torrent open and only on download going at tops 15kbs)
2006-02-11 10:32:25 EST: 143 / 29
Your download speed : 143 kbps or 17.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 29 kbps or 3.6 KB/sec.
(this one was 3 minutes into downloading)
(3rd time running with bit torrent open and only on download going at tops 15kbs) Doesn't even let me run becuase it's to slow......
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I know I should be only downloading 1 to 3 torrents at a time but I had such a good connection I just went with 15 and i woulf get stuff done in an hour to two hours. And I did the patch as well as change ports with closing xp firewall and getting Sygate Personal Firewall
Keep in mind I am not an expert. I've gotten most of my info from reading forums.
I am not sure what you mean by "without bit torrent open", as in "1st time running with out bit torrent open" - is this running a test of your capabilities?
AS far as the amount of time.. Look, normally, 3 minutes into a torrent download is nothing. It takes time to get going. Getting going fast right off the bat is rare. Remember I said that you have to upload well to be able to download well? At 3 minutes you haven't collected enough to start sharing with others, hense fxxked upload speed, and thus fxxked download speed. Then at so-many-minutes, like 5 lets say, you start to see your upload speed rise, a little later your download speed jumps up a bit, and it escalates. It might take me 1/2 hour into a popular 700 MB download before I get going well..
> 2006-02-11 10:31:21 EST: 2115 / 68
> Your download speed : 2115 kbps or 264.4 KB/sec.
> Your upload speed : 68 kbps or 8.5 KB/sec.
> (this one bit torrent was solowy getting started
> as I opened it up 30 secs ago)
Are you telling me at 30 seconds you are getting those numbers right above? TO me that is a oddity.. Plus only 8.5 KB/s upload speed... What were there like 20 seeds and only you and another guy downloading or something?
> Your upload speed : 140 kbps or 17.5 KB/sec.
Is the above your actual maximum upload speed given to you by your ISP? If so 140 Kbps is not very much, and you're lucky you got 2 Mbps even with a popular torrent. This seems an odd balance to me = so much download speed at 5 Mbps (5000 Kbps and only 140 Kbps upload speed.. With only 140 Kbps or 17.5 KB/s upload speed I'd say it's barely enough - you can only expect at best most of the time 400 Kbps.. Maybe 500 Kbps download..
But straighten me out if I didn't read you right - it sounds to me like you are expecting near instant download speed and it just ain't that way. Your download speed is actually arrived at by combining other's uploads and their speed to you..
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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flykid83
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11. February 2006 @ 11:16 |
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Keep in mind I am not an expert. I've gotten most of my info from reading forums.
I am not sure what you mean by "without bit torrent open", as in "1st time running with out bit torrent open" - is this running a test of your capabilities?
***what I mean by this is lets say I have had a torrent opened either using tornado or azerus or utorrent whichever it is, my speeds die down drimaticly. So when i run a test with a torrent opened it's really slow no matter how long my torrent is opned wither 3 minutes or 1 hour into it.
Your download speed : 225 kbps or 28.1 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 19 kbps or 2.4 KB/sec.
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*** AS far as torrent arent running on my systems when it's not opened I get normal cable .
Your download speed : 3983 kbps or 497.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 140 kbps or 17.5 KB/sec.
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AS far as the amount of time.. Look, normally, 3 minutes into a torrent download is nothing. It takes time to get going. Getting going fast right off the bat is rare. Remember I said that you have to upload well to be able to download well? At 3 minutes you haven't collected enough to start sharing with others, hense fxxked upload speed, and thus fxxked download speed. Then at so-many-minutes, like 5 lets say, you start to see your upload speed rise, a little later your download speed jumps up a bit, and it escalates. It might take me 1/2 hour into a popular 700 MB download before I get going well..
Are you telling me at 30 seconds you are getting those numbers right above? TO me that is a oddity.. Plus only 8.5 KB/s upload speed... What were there like 20 seeds and only you and another guy downloading or something?
> Your upload speed : 140 kbps or 17.5 KB/sec.
Is the above your actual maximum upload speed given to you by your ISP? If so 140 Kbps is not very much, and you're lucky you got 2 Mbps even with a popular torrent. This seems an odd balance to me = so much download speed at 5 Mbps (5000 Kbps and only 140 Kbps upload speed.. With only 140 Kbps or 17.5 KB/s upload speed I'd say it's barely enough - you can only expect at best most of the time 400 Kbps.. Maybe 500 Kbps download..
*that what broadband testing said.
But straighten me out if I didn't read you right - it sounds to me like you are expecting near instant download speed and it just ain't that way. Your download speed is actually arrived at by combining other's uploads and their speed to you..
It comes down to that if u use bit torrent my bandwidth disappears. Last week for 3 months straight I never had a problem.
**Side note I opened a new torrent just now with tornado I have had the fgreen ligh on the whole time. It's been 25 minutes into it, I have 96 Peers and 14 Seeds and ives downloaded .17mib
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moogle140
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11. February 2006 @ 12:11 |
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Hi, I got broadband 512/128k a few days ago and am experiencing very slow torrent downlaods...at around 18kb/s dl and 9kb/s upload. I've searched around these forums and have found all that port forward information and have done all that...I have also allowed my XP firewall to let various ports pass through. But i'm still experiencing slow d/l.
Ive seen some people talk about NAT but I dont know what that is...and I also have norton firewall but I don't know how to allow ports through. Can anyone help??
I have a Netcomm NB1300plus4 adsl modem and i use bitcommet to download.
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12. February 2006 @ 05:52 |
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hey thank you all for ue tips um download two gb worth of stuff and im download at 80-150 kbs so thx alot
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biggermac
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12. February 2006 @ 06:42 |
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moogle140 (Newbie) writes: Hi, I got broadband 512/128k a few days ago and am experiencing very slow torrent downlaods...at around 18kb/s dl and 9kb/s upload. I've searched around these forums and have found all that port forward information and have done all that...I have also allowed my XP firewall to let various ports pass through. But i'm still experiencing slow d/l.
Ive seen some people talk about NAT but I dont know what that is...and I also have norton firewall but I don't know how to allow ports through. Can anyone help??
I have a Netcomm NB1300plus4 adsl modem and i use bitcommet to download
Moogle, 1st I would recommend to anyone looking in to use a torrent program that has a status system. BitTornado (I use), Azureas, and some others have a colored light that tells you what's going on. If green all (should be) well. Yellow means a firewall problem.
But your problem might be deeper than your Norton firewall. With any software firewall there should be a place to "exclude" or "ignore" certain programs all together, thus shutting off the whole firewall for that program, but still working for you when on the Internet. I use Norton/Symantec SystemWorks 2005, part of it being Norton anti-virus, and it runs what is a firewall though not calling it such, because when I installed it I "OK"ed when it asked if it could shut off my Windows XP' SP2's firewall. And I had to "exclude" or "exempt" the .exe program that runs BitTornado.
And by the way, some of you guys are pretty lazy. Google your modems or Google for information once in while. You can Google in the form of a question and many times it will give you definitions for several sources. Google with "what is", as in "what is a firewall" or "what is firewall". Moogle you could have Googled: "NB1300plus4 modem firewall" (no quotes needed) and found out more info. This page has info you need:
http://www.netcomm.com.au/ADSL/NB1300PLUS4.php
It says your modem also is a firewall, so this might be a problem. You'll have to investigate further, but with my router I have to log into it using a web address and I have a menu available, part of which is for port forwarding.
From that page:
NB1300Plus4 USB and Four-port Ethernet Modem Router
NetComm?s NB1300 series is one of Australia?s most popular ADSL modem models with the largest number of users of any brand. The NB1300Plus4 is the next step up from the standard NB1300 model featuring a USB port and 4-port Ethernet switch designed for use by home, home office and small business users.
The USB port and four Ethernet ports can be used simultaneously for flexible connection options. It can easily connect a single computer to Internet services through the either the USB or one of the Ethernet ports. Alternatively, the NB1300Plus4?s built-in router can easily distribute Internet services to multiple wired computers and conveniently network the PC?s and other peripherals together.
Firewall
The NB1300Plus4 also features Network Address Translation which acts as a firewall by keeping the private IP addresses of the computers and other devices connected to the NB1300Plus4 hidden from users outside of the network (e.g. other computers on the Internet).
The NB1300Plus4 is fully-featured and can support advanced configuration including Static IP and full/half bridge modes.
With an Ethernet platform, the NB1300Plus4 can operate on all TCP/IP based operating systems including WindowsÒ, Mac and Linux. USB interface is compatible with Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP only.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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xcuses
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14. February 2006 @ 02:16 |
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Hi, im experienceing some pretty slow download rates, ive read these forums and not much has changed. I have tried changing some things, I am in Australia and am using a motorola surfboard modem, i think thats it anyways, i have cable connection.
Can anyone at all help me?
Also i use BitTornado
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biggermac
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14. February 2006 @ 09:01 |
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xcuses {Newbie} wrote: Hi, im experienceing some pretty slow download rates, ive read these forums and not much has changed. I have tried changing some things, I am in Australia and am using a motorola surfboard modem, i think thats it anyways, i have cable connection.
Can anyone at all help me?
Also i use BitTornado
xcuses, I've been surfing this forums for a while now, and though I could be wrong, I've come to the conclusion that Australia ISPs do not have enough bandwidth to offer good upload and download rates to customers.. -- what is your upload speed and download speed?
I don't think you guys downunder have speeds offered like in some other parts of the world and the USA here. Cable speeds here in the USA used to be like 256 Upload and 3000 download, at least is the cities, but I'm at almost 400 Kbps upload and 4000 Kbps download now. Some cable users might still be 2000 kbps down, And DSL can be slow (90 Kbps up, 350 Kbps down) to pretty darned fast nowadays, and it is cheaper than cable.
Remember that as a general law of torrent files sharing, written into the code so that people can't decide to not to upload like other more standard P2P networks, that you must be able to dish out and share (upload) and do it well, in order for you to recieve (download) well.
What the above means is that if your uploasd speed is only 15 KB/s (same as 120 Kbps), your download speed will suffer.
And - you do have a green light showing in BitTornado? (at least after being connected for a while).
Also I'll throw this out, though rare with a cable or DSL connected out ths way, Satellite Internet users, because they are dealing with only so much bandwidth to pass around, if they do too much as far as bandwidth use, the Satellite ISP cuts down their speed, which isn't that great to begin with.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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xcuses
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15. February 2006 @ 00:40 |
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i did one of those speed testers the other night and got for download rate: 550kbps or 68.7kb/sec and for upload i got 228kbps or 28.6kb/sec.
I have no problem getting a green ligh in BitTornado, the only reason i ask about the speeds and how to get faster downlaod rate, is because apparently a friend of a friend of mine has got the exact same broadband plan as me, and yet he claims to be hitting alot faster download rates.
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xcuses
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15. February 2006 @ 00:44 |
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if it would make things alot easier for you, i use msn and my email for that is sir_greddy@hotmail.com
feel free to add me at anytime
also with that speed test, i cannot remember exactly if my internet was all directed at that test or whether or not i was downlaoding a torrent, im currently downlaoding another and i will do a speed test as soon as it is done
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biggermac
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15. February 2006 @ 04:42 |
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xcuses (Newbie) writes: i did one of those speed testers the other night and got for download rate: 550kbps or 68.7kb/sec and for upload i got 228kbps or 28.6kb/sec.
I have no problem getting a green ligh in BitTornado, the only reason i ask about the speeds and how to get faster downlaod rate, is because apparently a friend of a friend of mine has got the exact same broadband plan as me, and yet he claims to be hitting alot faster download rates.
also with that speed test, i cannot remember exactly if my internet was all directed at that test or whether or not i was downlaoding a torrent, im currently downlaoding another and i will do a speed test as soon as it is done
xcuses, I'd like to help you out, but your haven't told me just what your idea of what "a lot faster" is..
A few things to say though - first - you put your email address out.. I wouldn't do that in a public forum, and especially when, though it has to be proven because there are legal files shared, in all likelihood downloading from torrents is grabbing copyrighted material and thus is an illegal activity.
BitTornado: Don't use "automatic" for upload speed. Choose slow DSL/cable, which writes numbers in the Upload speed box and the Max connections box, and then change it to fit - put in 75% to 80% of your max upload speed in, not all of it. 80% of 28 KB/s probably about 22 KB/s, so put 22 in the box. Underneath leave it at 4.
Remember though, and I am not sure how this works, but if you tested your speed at an Australian site, it might not be the speeds you get connecting elsewhere in the world..
And when you test you don't do a thing, not even move your mouse - if you were downloading something already that is not going to reflect your true speed..
And when you write out kbps and Kb/s - you are using the same formula. It ain't the slash thingy "/" that means anything, it's using a capital letter "B" (Bytes) or a small letter "b" (bits) that makes the difference. (8 bits = 1 Byte).
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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xcuses
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15. February 2006 @ 05:08 |
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ok, thanks so far, i had it set on automatic the whole time because that was what i was told was the better option.
once i have finished doing what i am doing, ill do another test with nothing open and so my internet is completely free for the speed, could u possibly recommend a site that would suit me best if you know of one
thanks
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xcuses
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16. February 2006 @ 08:50 |
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ok, torrent finished and i did a speed test and these were the results
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-02-16 13:48:23 EST:
659 / 229
Your download speed : 659 kbps or 82.4 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 229 kbps or 28.7 KB/sec.
i hope this makes it simpler for you
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biggermac
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16. February 2006 @ 12:34 |
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xcuses (Newbie) wrote: ok, torrent finished and i did a speed test and these were the results
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-02-16 13:48:23 EST: 659/229
Your download speed : 659 kbps or 82.4 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 229 kbps or 28.7 KB/sec.
i hope this makes it simpler for you
You have the most important info already, I already mentioned upload speed and what to do. But I'll explain it again.
Your maximum upload speed almost exactly what you mentioned before, and download speed in the same neighborhood. Your speeds should be fast enough to get good returns if you don't do more than one at a time. (Unless you are grabbing torrents that are very low in seeds and peers, you should only do one at a time).
Like I said you put in the "Upload Speed" field no more than 80% of your max upload speed. Since torrent programs use KB/s (kilo Bytes per second) and not Kbps (kilo bits per second)(large letter "B" vs a small letter "b"), take your 28.7 KB/s and figure it out. Without doing long math a quick glance says 7 x 4 = 28, so 7 would be 25%, and so 7 x 3 = 75% of your max, then tack on one or two onto that to arrive at 80%.. I mentioned 22 KB/s to try in BitTornado's Upload speed box before and I say try it again - you can experiment as it's downloading but remember if you go too high, BitTornado will not have enough room to operate in (torrent programs need about 20% of your upload bandwidth to operate with).
Download - You still never mentioned what your idea of good download speed was. Since you have only aprox. 650 Kbps or aprox 80 KB/s download speed as max, you can't do better than that. If you see people saying I got 1 Mbps or 2 Mbps on that well-participated-in torrent (lots of seeds and peers), you'll never reach that because 1 Mbps = 1000 Kbps or 125 KB/s and your max is about 650 Kbps..
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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Xtermnata
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17. February 2006 @ 04:56 |
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Hi,
I am a first time user and have a problem with BT. I have a linksys WAG54G router, speed is 512K and live in the UAE. I get 80Kbp/s maximum on downloading and 30Kbp/s on uploading. I had been having some speed problems with BT so i called my ISP and told them about it. I made sure they let me use ports 6881 - 6889. After doing so I forwarded those ports on my machine and started transfering. Now here is my problem, I still get speeds of 5 - 10 Kbp/s sometimes 15 but never goes higher than that. All my friends who use BT get speeds of 30+ and some of them who have a 256K modem get speeds higher than mine. I hope someone can help me out as many forums never give me an answer. Also I use BitLord/BitComet.
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17. February 2006 @ 11:06 |
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Xtermnata (Newbie) wrote: Hi, I am a first time user and have a problem with BT. I have a linksys WAG54G router, speed is 512K and live in the UAE. I get 80Kbp/s maximum on downloading and 30Kbp/s on uploading. I had been having some speed problems with BT so i called my ISP and told them about it. I made sure they let me use ports 6881 - 6889. After doing so I forwarded those ports on my machine and started transfering. Now here is my problem, I still get speeds of 5 - 10 Kbp/s sometimes 15 but never goes higher than that. All my friends who use BT get speeds of 30+ and some of them who have a 256K modem get speeds higher than mine. I hope someone can help me out as many forums never give me an answer. Also I use BitLord/BitComet.
I thought I was up on my geography.. Now I have to Google.....g.o.o.g.l.i.n.g..: Quote:
United Arab Emirates - A country of eastern Arabia, a federation of seven sheikdoms on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Converted to Islam in the 7th century, the area later became a base for pirates and was known as the Pirate Coast into the 19th century. The British signed a series of truces with the ruling sheiks between 1820 and 1892, and the area became known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman.
Health: Free health treatment for all; ensure the availability of comprehensive Health Centres in rural areas; awareness programmes for children and adults on contagious diseases; establish centres to provide services to children with cancer; provide health services in schools and kindergartens.
Education: Establish teacher training and management centres for both teachers and technical staff; Develop sharing programmes between schools and parents; Develop English language programmes at various school levels; Develop educational curriculum that does not merely concentrate on academics, but looks at all phases of growth.
Protection: Prepare guidance programmes to protect children at home, school and on the road; Prepare programmes to protect children from violence, abuse and family separation.
And so now I know why I didn't know.. Your country's men and women are well educated and enjoy free health treatment. Probably better social programs than here in the USA. No news out of there unless it is good I guess, and good news doesn't usually make the news programs and newspapers..
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Torrents: Trying to eliminate problems no matter how small a chance here. One thing is don't use a torrent program that does not allow you to use other ports than 6881 - 6889. There are about 65000 ports. Who knows if an ISP might mess with those ports because everyone knows what they are used for. BitTornado (I use), Azureas and other allow other ports to be used. I use ports above 55,000, and only one port is needed if you download only one torrent at a time (recommended only one at a time). Also these programs have a colored light warning system - green all should be OK, yellow means firewall problem (starts yellow switches to green after a few minutes).
A router is a firewall - a hardware firewall. Your probably running a software firewall too so make sure all is cool. You should be able to exclude the whole exe program that runs your torrent program instead of forwarding ports. (forwarding ports weakens a firewall).
Upload speed - enter 75% to 80% of your max upload speed.
Torrent programs need 20% of your upload bandwidth to work best in and if you choke that 20% the download rate will fall..
Your speed might take 10 minutes to begin to pick up from low low speeds. And of course well participated in torrents will generally be much faster than only a few people in them.
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Everyone how many times am I going to have to say this - when you report your speeds, a large letter B = Bytes a small letter b = bits. 8 bits = a byte. ISP tell you in Kbps and torrent programs use KB/s. But Kbps and Kb/s are the same thing , it is not the slash (/) it is the case of the letter b or B. But - try to use the / with the large letter B and not with the small letter b.
600 Kbps = 75 KB/s. 1000 Kbps = 1 Mbps = 125 KB/s.
And the letter K probably should matter upper or lower case, but it doesn't.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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msnman
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19. February 2006 @ 00:50 |
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ppl can some one help me i got telewest broadband, i use a buffalo wireless lan, ma bittorent always stays on like 10kb max. i have not a clue what to do
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biggermac
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msnman a Newbie writes: ppl can some one help me i got telewest broadband, i use a buffalo wireless lan, ma bittorent always stays on like 10kb max. i have not a clue what to do
Guys, don't be so lazy. Spend 5 minutes searching a forum when you come into one. Try a Google once in a while to gather a teeny bit of knowledge.
Anywho, Here is a repost of a repost of a repost (of a repost) originally posted in this forum not that long ago:
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General Torrent Programs guideline.
This should cover most questions or problems you are having. I am not an expert. This is just from observations and from reading posts and trial and error, using BitTornado..
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(1) What program to use
Use a torrent program that implements a colored light system (or other system) that informs you of status as you download. The two I know that use a colored light system (I am sure there are others) are BitTornado (I use), and Azureus. This is because most problems are a firewall problem and the user will have a yellow light - you want a green light.
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(2) Firewalls.
A firewall is a blocker or filter. You can send stuff outbound (upload), however they will block most ports for incoming (think of a port as a hole for stuff to get in and go out). Firewalls are now necessary because there is so much evil stuff written that is trying to harm your computer - it is just floating around on the Internet and trying and trying to find a hole to enter your computer.
Almost everyone runs a Program that is a Firewall (software firewall). But if you use a router, by the nature of it's duties, it becomes a hardware firewall. You can use a router and also run a software firewall, but running 2 software Firewalls will probably cause problems. Running a router only can be sufficient, but you do not get the bells and whistles a software firewall gives you. Example - For an old P3 running Windows 98 computer on my home network, no software firewall is used, the router seems to do OK as a firewall. And by the way if you download torrents regularly, you know they can take hours or all day, an old $80 computer like my Windows 98 one I just mentioned, even one at 500 MHz, is plenty good enough to download torrents so you don't tie up your main computer and have response slowdowns with it. Another Example (no bells & whistles) - The router firewall won't pop up a window and say "such and such tried to infiltrate your computer", nor will it say anything about outgoing that you never used before and are just using for the 1st time (it won't ask you if it is OK go ahead and let it connect)..
Port forwarding: this means open a port in a firewall for incoming. So in reference to a torrent program, you must "port forward" in a firewall that port or those ports that your torrent program uses. Now you see, if you have a router (hardware firewall) and are running a software firewall as well, you must open up the ports used in both Firewalls not just one.
Now there is another way to open up ports. This is only for software Firewalls and only affects a software firewall.. You can just exclude your torrent exe program from the firewall. All ports will be open when you run the torrent. Here is an example - if you use Windows XP's firewall, click on control-panel/firewall, and you'll see one of the commands you can click is "Exceptions". In there listed are programs like Yahoo Messenger. You need to add your torrent program to the list.
Norton anti-virus 2005 .. Since I run Norton SystemWorks 2005 which has anti-virus in it, I know the anti-virus program itself runs a firewall, but it does not call it such. It probably asked you when you 1st installed Norton if it was OK to shut off the XP firewall (or any I suppose) and you probably ticked "OK do it". So, you've got to find where to add to exclude or ignore your torrent program if you didn't tell it OK before. (look for the "options' tab to be able to change/add things).
Finally on Firewalls and ports - don't use the default ports of 6881- 6889 (or whatever they are). There are 65000 port or so. Use a port or ports range above 20000. Me, I use ports in the 55000 range. So if your torrent program does not allow usage of any ports, chuck it out the window and try BitTornado (which I use) or Azureas or one of several others that allow the use of any ports.
If you only do one torrent at a time (recommended) you should only need to use one port (they call it a listening port I believe) and not a field of ports. Plus remember - if you are using a router and especially used as your only firewall, then the more ports you forward, you increase the chances of some kind of a security breach when surfing the Internet.
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(3) Download one torrent at a time (at least until you become good at it and recognize when 2 at a time would work better, which is not that often).
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(4) never use any "automatic" setting (at least when it comes to upload speed. For Example - In BitTornado by default the max upload speed is ticked to be automatic, so instead choose slow or fast DSL/cable which then will allow you to tweak the numbers it adds in the Upload Speed box, and the Max Uploads box. (See next for what numbers).
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(5) You must upload well to be able to download well, I'll repeat this: You must upload well to be able to download well.
Very important rule: The whole peer to peer torrent style network is based on people not being able to "cheat", meaning you cannot choose to not share in the upload process and still be able to download fast. The faster you upload the faster you'll download (in theory). (For really popular torrents a setting of 25 KB/s in the "Upload Speed" box is usually sufficient. Really popular means like 30 seeds and 50 peers or more, with more seeds being better than more peers). .....IF all you have is 120 Kbps upload max (15 KB/s) your download speeds will never do that well no matter what you've got download-wise.
So don't think because you have a 2000 Kbps (2 Mbps or 225 KB/s) download rate or more means that you should be getting that every time you download. Even with great upload speeds an average of 600 Kbps (75 KB/s) download speed is very good. Some really popular torrents, with seeds up the butt to like 30 seeds and 50 peers you can get 1 Mbps download (1000 Kbps / 125 KB/s). And sometimes 2 Mbps a few times. Once I hit 3 Mbps and I do not know what was going on there.
You're actually are never downloading a solid speed - what you are doing is getting uploads from others and the torrent program combines the pieces. If you are getting a fast 1 Mbps download rate (125 KB/s) you are really getting uploads from several other computers as sources which, like you, have a limited upload rate..
Speeds will always be slow when you start out, and show a yellow warning light. You must get enough of a torrent to be able to begin to share before your upload speed starts going up, and after your upload speed starts going up give it a few minutes and your download speed should start to increase. You should get a green light after you have several people joined and start to upload faster (say maybe 5 minutes into the torrent). (if your torrent program doesn't have a colored light system to inform you of status, get another (Again like with being able to choose different ports, BitTornado, Azureas, and some others have a colored light status/warning system)
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(6) Kbps, KB/s, Mbps - WTF is all of this?
(a) Kbps and KB/s are vastly different speeds or transfer rates. It is not the slash ( / ) that makes the difference, it is the large letter "B" vs a small letter "b". OK remember B = Bytes and b = bits. It takes 8 bits to equal a byte. Everyone always used to use Kbps (bits) and the ISPs (Internet service providers) I've seen always use (appropriately so) Kbps too. I do not know how B and Bytes got started, but now everyone is confused. Torrent programs want speed entered in KB/s and your ISP tells you in Kbps. You must convert to put a value in a torrent program. Divide Kbps by 8 to get KB/s. If you have 200 Kbps upload then for the torrent program that is 25 KB/s.
-There is one more step though before you add in your max upload speed into a torrent program.
(b) Torrent programs need to use about 20% of your upload bandwidth to work right. If you entered in all of your upload speed into the Upload-Speed box in your torrent program, it I going to choke when it reaches speed up past 80% that. So: only tell a torrent program to use 75% to 80% of what your actual maximum upload speed really is. This leaves the extra 20% to the torrent program which needs it to work well in. OK. (So example - If you know you have 25 KB/s {200 Kbps} upload speed, 80% of that is 20 KB/s. Put 20 in the Upload Speed box).
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(7) Maximum uploads (not maximum Upload Speed)
This is for BitTornado because your torrent program may not reflect this as a choice - Leave this to 4 unless you know 5 or 6 might be better. (experiment later once you've gotten good download speeds going). - I believe max uploads here is the number of computers you are uploading to at one time. If for example, you upload at 25 KB/s and you have Max Connections at 4, then 4 computers should be receiving from you about 6 KB/s each.. If you tick 5 connections then 5 computers get 5 KB/s each. However if you serve too many computers, each receiving less a chunk of good speed upload from you, and I don't know what effect this has on the formula that the torrent programs use to determine if you are uploading well.
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(8) I believe older computer operating systems like the Windows 98 line does not understand UPnP. The torrent program might have UPnP turned on. Also in your router (if you use one of course) you might have UPnP on or off. It might be worth experimenting with these settings. I myself have shut off UPnP in my torrent program and in my router, and even on my Win XP computer it seemed to work well downloading a torrent.
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(9) Different torrents are going to be different speeds even if you download two different ones in a row, one after the other was finished, and they had the exact same seeds and peers numbers, one might download at 800 Kbps (100 KB/s) and the other at 400 Kbps (50 KB/s) .
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(10) Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) tries to stop WORMs. Before they could proliferate with many connections at one time. In so doing this SP2 fix, it limits (I think) what might be called "half connections" to 10 (research this further yourself, terminology might be wrong on my part). Unfortunately this causes havoc with older style P2P programs, and might effect your torrent speed too in such a way as that if you lose a computer in your group that was uploading to you, getting connected to another source might take a while, and you'll see your speeds vary a lot as you watch during a download. There is a so-called "fix" called the LVLord fix. Google "LVLord". This fix involves entering automatically into your registry do be careful save your registry before you run it. Put in "1000" into the field instead of 10. You will get a warning when you run this fix, and if you get afraid and abort, of course the fix won't work. If you do at some point ever be infected with a WORM, you will be a big source of the problem.
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(11) Some settings you change in your torrent program might not go into effect until you close your torrent program and open it up again. For example in BitTornado on the main page I can change the Upload Speed setting OK and it goes into effect immediately, but if I changed on a 2nd page the ports used, that wouldn't go into effect until the next time I open BitTornado.
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19. February 2006 @ 06:19 |
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i did the speed test 1213 DN / 314 UP wat is the math to get my max upload speed
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19. February 2006 @ 11:40 |
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314 Kbps is your upload speed? You need to input 80% of that into your torrent program in the Upload Speed field.
But Torrent programs use KB/s - Bytes not bits.
So you can do either of the two tasks needed 1st - either convert to KB/s then do 80%, or visa versa..
I don't know normal math. Here's easy logical math: Get 80% of 314. 31.4 is 10%. Multiply 31.4 by 8 for 80%. So 251 is approximately 80% of 314. That's 251 Kbps. (based on multiples of 10, which is easy).
Now convert 251 Kbps to {whatever} KB/s for the torrent program. 1 Byte = 8 bits. So you divide 251 Kbps by 8 to get {whatever} KB/s, and that number is approximately 31. So 31 KB/s is 80% of 314 Kbps.. (based on multiples of 8, which is a different concept that percentages and multiples of 10).
So there you go - put the number 31 (for 31 KB/s) into your torrent program's "Upload Speed" field, or it's "Max Upload Speed" field/box - whatever what torrent program that you are using calls it.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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19. February 2006 @ 18:45 |
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i have road runner and when i download a torrent it goes up to 32 kb. and i've read something staht says how to make your torrents go up to 100 kb.so how do i configure my firewall setting to make my torrents faster?and plz make it step by step!!
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20. February 2006 @ 10:17 |
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hey, im using morpheus to download bit torrent. how do you make it go faster? is there any way i can make it faster? i mean its recieving it says. but its been at 0% for an hour. and i have cable internet.what should i do?
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SchwarZZ
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20. February 2006 @ 11:12 |
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hello there i am experienceing problems with my bittorrent download speeds aswell ive done all the port forwarding and router config settings and i get all green lights but when im downloading i almost never upload anything and peers try to connect but timeout or somthing and when i download it tops out at around 50kb/s and only goes to that for around 10 seconds at a time then its back to 1.5kb/s with 0 upload i use Azerus Bit torrent client the latest version i have a D-Link DI784 wireless router with rogers cable clocked at 5mbits/s and Panda Titanium anti virus program wich i have also configured to allow azerus full acess to the internet and even when i turn the vius protection off i get no change in speeds any help would be appreciated greatly
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'Tis against forum rules to post email addresses.
What's your conection line speed? And where did you get the torrent from?
Most public trackers are very badly seeded.
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20. February 2006 @ 12:11 |
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my line speed is 5mbit/s down and 1mbit/s up and ive tryed many differnt torrents but all of them are the same even after i have let them go for days torrents that have a few hundred peers and seeds will connect to around 16 seeds max and even less peers even if there is more peers than seeds
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