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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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jakepar
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12. June 2007 @ 20:19 |
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i have a mac and i have bittorent and i changed my things on that website and such, but still i only get about 7-8kb/s how do i make it faster? also i have wireless internet from a box in my basement.
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biggermac
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12. June 2007 @ 22:21 |
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1st off, just in case you get things going, by setting your download speed to 50 KB/s you are halving your maximum download capability. 50 kB/s is 400 kbps. "Unlimited" normally is not an OK setting but here it is (download max)/ Or just set it higher than you can do.
2nd you could try maybe a few more kB/s for upload speed max.. Well after you get going here...
Now your problem - sounds like you understand firewalls and green vs yellow, etc, and 4 uploads (with your limited upload speed).
I didn't see how well the torrents you've tried are participated in but it sounds like you know what your doing. Just in case I'll point this out - make sure you try a popular torrent, one that has like 15 or more seeds and 30 or more peers (to see if you still get the same speeds).
Don't know what to say. I remember Rogers in Canada had a weird port you had to use.
Try a different program just to make sure. I recommend an old standard, BitTornado.
Some modems are firewalled nowadays, though you don't seem to have that problem. However who knows - a USB modem? Suspect? I don't know, grasping at straws.. Your upload speed is on the fringe of being good enough.
Experiment, like try turning UPnP off.
Good luck.
Originally posted by 0restes:
I have read many posts and tried different things. Apparently, I have not found a solution to my problem! Here's the deal:
My connection speed is 768Kb download/192Kb upload (96KB/24KB)
I have a USB dsl modem (not router) (Sagem F@st800).
I'm using μTorrent.
So, I have set my upload limit to 19KB (about 79% of my total upload speed) and my download limit to 50KB. I can say that I am a "good" seeder. All finished downloads have a ratio of 1.5 - 5. I even have an 11 and a 27 ratio in two of my torrents.
I have also set a standard port (55539) and checked that it's open. (μTorrent gives you this option, to check the status of a port). My "colour" is also green, meaning that my connection works fine.
I currently download only one file and have limited my uploads to 4. Oh, I forgot. My firewall is ZoneAlarm, where μTorrent has full privileges.
I was downloading with 3-5KBs. Now I'm downloading with 8-13KBs. I don't know if I was just lucky, or if the above steps have helped. Still, that's not remotely good for my connection's "capability".
I don't know what else to add. Just that when using μTorrent (or any other torrent client that is) all other Internet activity freezes! I can't do any serious browsing. It's like I have a dial-up connection. When I close mTorrent everything works fine. It's like μTorrent "sucks" all my bandwidth. (But, unfortunately, not really using it).
Any help would be *really* appreciated!
Greetings from Greece! :)
And thanks in advance!!
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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daemon09
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13. June 2007 @ 05:56 |
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hi im trying to get help i have bitorrent pro i changed the ports
on it but im still firewalled i would like to have the health as the
green circle but it keeps coming up yellow i have road runner for my
internet connection so can anyone tell me what i should do
help would be appreciated thanks.
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biggermac
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13. June 2007 @ 09:59 |
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Originally posted by daemon09:
hi im trying to get help i have bitorrent pro i changed the ports on it but im still firewalled i would like to have the health as the green circle but it keeps coming up yellow i have road runner for myinternet connection so can anyone tell me what i should do help would be appreciated thanks.
You need to give more information. For all I know you're using an old Amiga or Commodore 64 computer. But I'll toss out a few things.
You have a program, or software, that is a firewall. That means it's purposely blocking many incoming ports. So make sure your exe program get's excluded in your firewall program when it's running.
2nd, if you are on a network, like a home network, the router (brains of the network) is a firewall too. It's a hardware firewall, as opposed to an actual firewall program that's a software firewall. The end difference is little - they both block incoming ports. In a hardware firewall you need to log into the router and use it's menu to "port forward" This means open up a port, or a port range, to incoming.
3rd, even if you are not in a network, some of today's modems have a built-in firewall. Same as a router, you'd need to log-in to it and affect a change by port-forwarding relative ports used by your torrent program...
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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biggermac
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13. June 2007 @ 10:04 |
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Originally posted by jakepar:
i have a mac and i have bittorent and i changed my things on that website and such, but still i only get about 7-8kb/s how do i make it faster? also i have wireless internet from a box in my basement.
I just posted a message that is relative you what you're asking. It should be the previous message to this reply.
One more thing I'll point out - you can't download well, unless you upload well. Forced participation, so no slaggers..
You need to know your maximum upload speed, then set your torrent pogram to use 80% of this maximum. The torrent program needs the 20% left over to work in..
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Finally, do not confuse a torrent program's using kB/s and kbps. A large letter B = Bytes and a small b = bits.
8 bits = 1 Byte.
So 100 kB/s (or even kBps) = 800 kbps. Youe ISP probably told you your speeds in kbps while torrent programs use kB/s.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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maeline
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16. June 2007 @ 13:00 |
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Hi guys,
I have been reading this topic during the last week and found out how to make my download much faster. It seem to be a different tweak for everyone so im gonna list what i have done to get 600+ kb/s as shown in the link.( its an average of 350k after 20 min but it peak at 600).
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u114/maeline21/highspeed-1.jpg
First of all you obviously need to have the port open on your firewall/router. I know that a lot of people ask about this but i dont think thats what slow down the download as long as they are actually open (mine were always open and i still had slow speed). Everyone seem to mention port forwarding but in my router the section was called "Special application". So open the port that your application use(bittorent,utorrent,BitTornado...).
About the application itself, i used to run with bittorent but my download was slow and i was connected to 1 and maybe 2 peer max at anytime. I then tried BitTornado after reading this topic but i was in yellow and had very slow speed... So i looked at my peer list and noticed that most used utorrent. At first i tought it was the original bittorrent but i looked it up and finally i downloaded it. So i started my torrent that had slow speed and got amazing download speed.
I am not sure what boosted my speed that much but i know uttorrent use a different port range and seem to connect to much more different peers. I used to average 10-15k sec and now its in the hundreds after 1 min of download. Having 10 peer uploading to you at 5-15k sec with the occasionnal dude that upload at 200k+ sec (wtf man!?) is much better.
I use window media center, im not sure if it has any impact but i got a tweak that increase the number of tcp connection possible at one time. Im not sure of the detail but in xp they reduce it to like 10 instead of 50+. Just do a search on google about win xp and tcp connection fix.
Anyway i didnt set any very deep technical setting. I downloaded utorrent and it was the day and night.
Some people are telling that you need to upload to download fast. Im not sure if its true of if its BS. As you can see i cap my upload at 10-15k sec and still get highspeed download so im not sure its true at all. Maybe after a few torrent i wont be able to download fast anymore but i can say that i dled 10+gig of data at this speed(300+ average) and i never upload for more then 10-15k sec.
PS. i dont use the bittorrent speed up download crap ( didnt seem to work in bittorrent anyway. ( unless the 5kb/s increase was the result of it)
Lol the download of a full game finished before i completed the post :D
I hope it help peoples because some post in this topic helped me.
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16. June 2007 @ 15:37 |
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Im sure everybody appreciates your info, but I would for sure edit that pic. Little too much info if you know what I mean!
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biggermac
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16. June 2007 @ 22:29 |
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If the torrent is very strong, the upload to download thing may not apply. Something very popular.
I used BitTornado a long time ago, and though I've mostly not done torrents in well over a year, I did get a few things recently with it. These were popular files, and as before, I could hit the 2 Mbps mark (2000 kbps or 250 kB/s). That speed is not the norm, 1 kbps also with popular files might be (every torrent group is different). I had to be happy if I could average 500 bps (63ish kB/s) on some others.
There is nothing wrong with BitTornado. You need to set the upload speed properly. I do recall if you change some of the configurations, like which port or port range to use, it won't take effect until you close the program ,and next time you use it the new setting(s) will be in effect. Of course I use an old copy, a newer copy might even be easier to use. (I used it recently on a Windows Vista computer).
Originally posted by maeline:
Hi guys,
I have been reading this topic during the last week and found out how to make my download much faster. It seem to be a different tweak for everyone so im gonna list what i have done to get 600+ kb/s as shown in the link.( its an average of 350k after 20 min but it peak at 600).
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u114/maeline21/highspeed.jpg
First of all you obviously need to have the port open on your firewall/router. I know that a lot of people ask about this but i dont think thats what slow down the download as long as they are actually open (mine were always open and i still had slow speed). Everyone seem to mention port forwarding but in my router the section was called "Special application". So open the port that your application use(bittorent,utorrent,BitTornado...).
About the application itself, i used to run with bittorent but my download was slow and i was connected to 1 and maybe 2 peer max at anytime. I then tried BitTornado after reading this topic but i was in yellow and had very slow speed... So i looked at my peer list and noticed that most used utorrent. At first i tought it was the original bittorrent but i looked it up and finally i downloaded it. So i started my torrent that had slow speed and got amazing download speed.
I am not sure what boosted my speed that much but i know uttorrent use a different port range and seem to connect to much more different peers. I used to average 10-15k sec and now its in the hundreds after 1 min of download. Having 10 peer uploading to you at 5-15k sec with the occasionnal dude that upload at 200k+ sec (wtf man!?) is much better.
I use window media center, im not sure if it has any impact but i got a tweak that increase the number of tcp connection possible at one time. Im not sure of the detail but in xp they reduce it to like 10 instead of 50+. Just do a search on google about win xp and tcp connection fix.
Anyway i didnt set any very deep technical setting. I downloaded utorrent and it was the day and night.
Some people are telling that you need to upload to download fast. Im not sure if its true of if its BS. As you can see i cap my upload at 10-15k sec and still get highspeed download so im not sure its true at all. Maybe after a few torrent i wont be able to download fast anymore but i can say that i dled 10+gig of data at this speed(300+ average) and i never upload for more then 10-15k sec.
PS. i dont use the bittorrent speed up download crap ( didnt seem to work in bittorrent anyway. ( unless the 5kb/s increase was the result of it)
Lol the download of a full game finished before i completed the post :D
I hope it help peoples because some post in this topic helped me.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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madmax304
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17. June 2007 @ 01:09 |
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HELLO PLEEASE HeLP ME!!!!!!!!
i have a windows xp and i have bittorent ub the bittorent downloads are sooooo SLOW! i was wondering if anyone knows how i could speed them up...
i have a wireless card and im not sure how to speed up the torrent downloads.
any help would be great!! thanks!
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biggermac
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17. June 2007 @ 08:08 |
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Originally posted by madmax304:
HELLO PLEEASE HeLP ME!!!!!!!!
i have a windows xp and i have bittorent ub the bittorent downloads are sooooo SLOW! i was wondering if anyone knows how i could speed them up...
i have a wireless card and im not sure how to speed up the torrent downloads.
any help would be great!! thanks!
That's a wide open quention. You don't say anything about what you know, settings, etc etc. Not even what color the status light is. Upload speed setting. Ports. Firewalled or not?
You are on a network when you use the card. A router is the boss of your network. A router is a hardware firewall. You need to log into the router and into it's menu - then "port forward" (open up that port hole to incoming) that port, or port range, you have set to use in your torrent program.
Set your maximum upload speed to 80% of what you know your true upload speed to be. (take a test at a place like dslreports.com).
Set to use 4 connections (iupload to others) or 5 or 6 if your upload speed is like 400 kbps or more.
Torrent programs use a large B, as kB/s. 400 kbps is 400 thousand b its per second. 400 kbps = 50 kB/s (50 thousand Bytes per second).
If you download large files, like say a 2 hour movie-clip, it's still going to be at a minimum around 750 megabytes for an AVI file that plays in a program like Windows Explorer. If you got as much as 1000 kbps (125 kB/s) average download speed it's going to take several hours.
Slowww at 1st under normal circumstances.. Needs to build up speed.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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madmax304
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17. June 2007 @ 09:16 |
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hi again thanks for the reply but i really dont understand cus i am a bit dumb when it comes to pc so... i do have firewall i was wondering if there is a easy walk through to go throuth step my step
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17. June 2007 @ 10:31 |
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Originally posted by madmax304:
hi again thanks for the reply but i really dont understand cus i am a bit dumb when it comes to pc so... i do have firewall i was wondering if there is a easy walk through to go throuth step my step
You have a program that is a firewall - a software firewall. This is on purpose, because of threats to your computer nowadays, it's designed to stop incoming stuff. Then, your router, is a firewall too, a hardware firewall. One is a program, the other is a physical device, no matter, they're very similar.
That's about it. You'll have to get your router model number and figure out how to long into it. My router has a default user-name and password. It's address (internet box) is: 192.168.1.1
Since routers can be one of many from a pool of many different manufacturers and brand, you're going to have to do your own research, I've taken this as far as I'm willing to invest time to. Use Google to find stuff.
Both your software firewall and hardware firewall need to become aware. Good luck.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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kmau08
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Hi anyone here who can help me regarding torrents? my download speed is only 25kb/s how can i make it faster? help please i am using bitcomet 0.90 i have done everything that was instructed here but still the same download speed help please when i test my bandwidth its 1.03 mbps before i have a acceptable download speed but now its very slow.. and if i leave my computer downloading when i come back to check mu upload and download is both at 0kb/s
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biggermac
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Originally posted by kmau08:
Hi anyone here who can help me regarding torrents? my download speed is only 25kb/s how can i make it faster? help please i am using bitcomet 0.90 i have done everything that was instructed here but still the same download speed help please when i test my bandwidth its 1.03 mbps before i have a acceptable download speed but now its very slow.. and if i leave my computer downloading when i come back to check mu upload and download is both at 0kb/s
1st off, most torrent programs report in Bytes per second not bits per second - you using a small letter b means bits - 8 bits = 1 Bytes. 25 kb/s or 25 kbps is less than dial up speed, however I suspect you mean 25 kB/s which = 200 kbps (kbps is usually the speed your ISP tells you what you have).
Lights - you got a green light or yellow? Yellow indicates a firewall (routers used by home networks are firewall culprits).
Upload speed - very important, you gotta upload well to download well (in most cases), so no cheating, you have to participate or else the program thinks your a leech and cuts back on your download speed. So what is your upload speed? Then you use that to set the upload speed in the torrent program to 80% of your real upload speed - careful now, remember convert kbps to kB/s. Set it too high and it will cut back too, the program needs that 20% you don't let it have to work other stuff in.
Still, if it's a crappy torrent, not hardly any participants, 25 kB/s might be all you can get - try grabbing a super popular torrent, likec one that has at least 15 seeds and 40 peers , better to have like 30 seeds and even more peers, then check the speed out.
It does take a while to build up to where you have enough downloaded so you can begin to share with others, and then your speed slowly increases.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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3. August 2007 @ 12:42 |
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will the port forwarding work to get fast torrent speed if i configure the port in my router and put the ip address of my wireless computer
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ValiumMm
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3. August 2007 @ 16:53 |
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Look in all seriousness. Your torrents are only going to go as fast as people can upload. There is really nothing wrong with your computers or internet. You should try sign up to private torrents and see how fast your speed goes, then u will realise there is nothing wrong with torrents but there is something wrong with public torrents, because people dont want to upload
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mersonix
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5. August 2007 @ 14:28 |
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Well, here's the story.
I'm running azureus on my PC thru a wireless connection. I have verizon DSl (768 kbps). On my host computer I have a westell 327w. On the computer running Azureus I have a linksys PCI wireless G adapter. My downloads are very slow. Generally stick in the teens. What's weird though is that occasionally i'll have spikes where i'll see my dl rate go up into the hundreds. I generally target torrents with many seeders and less leachers. But it's just really slow. I'm not sure if i did port forwarding correctly, so if someone could help me with that, and other tips to increase my dl speed would be great.
and yes, i lowered my upload speed to around 15 kbps.
Thanks for any help.
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biggermac
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5. August 2007 @ 21:38 |
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Originally posted by mersonix:
Well, here's the story.
I'm running azureus on my PC thru a wireless connection. I have verizon DSl (768 kbps). On my host computer I have a westell 327w. On the computer running Azureus I have a linksys PCI wireless G adapter. My downloads are very slow. Generally stick in the teens. What's weird though is that occasionally i'll have spikes where i'll see my dl rate go up into the hundreds. I generally target torrents with many seeders and less leachers. But it's just really slow. I'm not sure if i did port forwarding correctly, so if someone could help me with that, and other tips to increase my dl speed would be great.
and yes, i lowered my upload speed to around 15 kbps.
Thanks for any help.
You lowered upload speed to 15 kBps - same as 15 kB/s - not the same as using a small letter "b". B= Bytes, b=bits. 8 (b)its = 1 (B)yte.
In many cases your lower upload speed will hinder download speed. Torrent type file-sharing was written so you can't be a leech - in other words you have to share with others, and if it's not enough upload speed it will throttle back your download speed.
However, in very popular torrents which you say you try, you should do better even with 15 kB/s upload.
Set upload speed to 80% of what you know you have (dslreports.com). Don't forget to convert kbps to kB/s if you're seeing kbps because torrent programs use kB/s. (BTW the / doesn't mean much, = "per", as in kbps, the "p" = "per").
I do not download much anymore. But when I do it's a very popular torrent and I can get 1 and 2 Mbps (2000 kbps same as 250 kB/s).
Green light? Is your torrent programming showing green or yellow after a minute? Yellow would mean you have a firewall problem. Besides a software firewall, a Router is a firewall too - a hardware firewall. Acts similar. You'd need to log into the router, find "port forward", and put in port-forward what ports you use for your torrent program (port-forward = a hole that lets stuff come into your computer. It does weaken your anti-virus type resistance slightly the more ports you open).
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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5. August 2007 @ 21:52 |
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Originally posted by playernba:
will the port forwarding work to get fast torrent speed if i configure the port in my router and put the ip address of my wireless computer
I have a router brand that besides the port (or port range) forwarded, also wants to know which computer in the home network will be using those ports forwarded. So i couldn't use the same ports with 2 different computers. But previous to that my wireless B router if you port forwarded in the router it would work for any computer on the home network (same brand as the wireless G I have now).
Hope that helps. I don't know your set-up or what brand you have, and would only know about what i use anyway if you mentioned what brand of router..
I can easily get 1000 and 2000 kbps (1000 kbps = 125 kB/s) on public torrents - if they are well participated in. If they're not so popular, you might be lucky to get 75 kB/s). It could be a crawl too - not only is it how many participants, and more seeds can really help (full copies), but each torrent is different even if you had the same numbers.. - don't forget under most circumstances it's a build-up of speed over time, because at 1st you have nothing to share (upload back) and as mentioned, in many cases, lousy uploading means lousy downloading.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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mersonix
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Originally posted by biggermac:
Originally posted by mersonix:
Well, here's the story.
I'm running azureus on my PC thru a wireless connection. I have verizon DSl (768 kbps). On my host computer I have a westell 327w. On the computer running Azureus I have a linksys PCI wireless G adapter. My downloads are very slow. Generally stick in the teens. What's weird though is that occasionally i'll have spikes where i'll see my dl rate go up into the hundreds. I generally target torrents with many seeders and less leachers. But it's just really slow. I'm not sure if i did port forwarding correctly, so if someone could help me with that, and other tips to increase my dl speed would be great.
and yes, i lowered my upload speed to around 15 kbps.
Thanks for any help.
You lowered upload speed to 15 kBps - same as 15 kB/s - not the same as using a small letter "b". B= Bytes, b=bits. 8 (b)its = 1 (B)yte.
In many cases your lower upload speed will hinder download speed. Torrent type file-sharing was written so you can't be a leech - in other words you have to share with others, and if it's not enough upload speed it will throttle back your download speed.
However, in very popular torrents which you say you try, you should do better even with 15 kB/s upload.
Set upload speed to 80% of what you know you have (dslreports.com). Don't forget to convert kbps to kB/s if you're seeing kbps because torrent programs use kB/s. (BTW the / doesn't mean much, = "per", as in kbps, the "p" = "per").
I do not download much anymore. But when I do it's a very popular torrent and I can get 1 and 2 Mbps (2000 kbps same as 250 kB/s).
Green light? Is your torrent programming showing green or yellow after a minute? Yellow would mean you have a firewall problem. Besides a software firewall, a Router is a firewall too - a hardware firewall. Acts similar. You'd need to log into the router, find "port forward", and put in port-forward what ports you use for your torrent program (port-forward = a hole that lets stuff come into your computer. It does weaken your anti-virus type resistance slightly the more ports you open).
You seem very knowledgeable. I never see green. Only a yellow face. But, when downloading from vuze I can get higher speeds. Not what it should be. But, around 50. I did port forwarding on my westell router, tell me if this sounds right. I set the port on my wireless computer in azureus for something. Then in the router i had it forward that port. Is that right?
If not please respond asap.
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6. August 2007 @ 03:58 |
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If you say your downloads have gone into the hundreds then clearly there is nothing wrong. The router is gonna port forward itself then dl's go faster the turn off again. Its not gonna make a diff. Clearly its fine just ppl upload crap all these days.
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ValiumMm
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6. August 2007 @ 04:39 |
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Also some people say get your upload at 80% of its capabilities, but i recommend 100% or leave it as unlimited i find torrents do got faster, but thats just me.
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biggermac
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6. August 2007 @ 05:13 |
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Originally posted by mersonix:
You seem very knowledgeable. I never see green. Only a yellow face. But, when downloading from vuze I can get higher speeds. Not what it should be. But, around 50. I did port forwarding on my westell router, tell me if this sounds right. I set the port on my wireless computer in azureus for something. Then in the router i had it forward that port. Is that right?
If not please respond asap.
First - I use, and have always used, BitTornado. I found BitTornado to be quite simple to use. It also uses a different pipeline within the computer than Azureas, which a few poeple have problems with..
I used BitTornado on a Windows XP computer as well as an old 386 at 600 MHz that runs Windows 98 SE. I now have used BitTornado on a newer Intel dual core. (BTW an old computers like the 386 are great torrent workhorses if you download a lot but don't want to tie up your main computer - easy enough to transfer the download to your main computer later through your home network's router.)
If you're always getting yellow, it should mean the same as BitTornado's yellow, meaning most likely a firewall problem. A firewall doesn't normally stop outgoing but it does restrict incoming (downloading) though still some does come in, but low speed.
Most torrent programs by default are set up with a port range to use, not a single port. Default usually was ports in the range of 6881-6889. Later, the range has been extended to 6881-6999 ..
Don't use those. There are around 65000 ports. Why not use them? I am no expert, and I have no idea if an ISP even cares, but since many torrents are not legal copies, I just wouldn't use those ports in case it makes it easier to tell what your doing. BitTornado easily allows you to change the port range. You can even just use one port (port range will change ports on different downloads and it picks one port to use inside that range you choose). I use a small port range high up over the 55000.. -- if you do try BitTornado, remember that if you change things like ports once you open it, you have to close down BitTornado and start it up again for the new setting to be in effect.
To your question - you are saying "a port". If a port range is used, you have to port forward the same port range in your router as is used by your torrent program.
--> check your software firewall. There is a "exclude" or Exempt" or "ignore" command somewhere, where you put in the exe file that runs your torrent program. That way you don't have to port forward in your software firewall, it just sees the program you told it and opens up any ports it uses.
Modem - some newer modems, especially DSL, also have a built on firewall like a router. You need to check it out - Google your modem type and add the word firewall in the search and see if something comes up. If it does then you need to figure out how to port forward in it too, not just your router..
So you see you might be dealing with three firewalls.
Also I remember some places, like up in Canada, where you can only use one port to download stuff.
One more thing - I disabled Upnp, or whatever it's called., in both my router, and in my torrent program. upnp only works in Win XP anyway, not older.
MY knowledge is years old and I have not kept up. Things could have changed. all I know is my last torrent download was about 1.5 gigs and it downloaded in a few hours.
I also use an old old freeware program named netmeter (no spaces) that reports up and download speeds in either kbps or kB/s. You can shrink it down to fit in the top margin of a window so it's not in the way.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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Originally posted by biggermac:
Originally posted by playernba:
will the port forwarding work to get fast torrent speed if i configure the port in my router and put the ip address of my wireless computer
I have a router brand that besides the port (or port range) forwarded, also wants to know which computer in the home network will be using those ports forwarded. So i couldn't use the same ports with 2 different computers. But previous to that my wireless B router if you port forwarded in the router it would work for any computer on the home network (same brand as the wireless G I have now).
Hope that helps. I don't know your set-up or what brand you have, and would only know about what i use anyway if you mentioned what brand of router..
I can easily get 1000 and 2000 kbps (1000 kbps = 125 kB/s) on public torrents - if they are well participated in. If they're not so popular, you might be lucky to get 75 kB/s). It could be a crawl too - not only is it how many participants, and more seeds can really help (full copies), but each torrent is different even if you had the same numbers.. - don't forget under most circumstances it's a build-up of speed over time, because at 1st you have nothing to share (upload back) and as mentioned, in many cases, lousy uploading means lousy downloading.
i have a linksys wrt54g router and a d-link wireless adapter with dsl 768k connection if that helps
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