I've been using bittorrent for about a year now, and it has always worked fine for me. I was able to configure my router at home and setup the port forwarding etc. Recently I moved into the dorms in college and now my bittorrent will only download at 2-3 kb/s. I am connected to over 30 peers/seeds, but it's just not downloading as fast as it used to. I'm guessing that the school network here has blocked something that I need to get this to work faster. Any suggestions?
In short, all college networks have, for lack of a better word, SUPER-Firewalls. they also block all ports that arent critical for windows, etc, so it is hard to get that much bandwith allocated for yourself. Im on a 17,000 kb/s (2 MegaBytes/s) college network but im lucky to ever hit 150 KB/s for a torrent, the average for a heavily seeded private torrent is 70,80 KB/s.
Suggestions?
Well the only one i can give you is to make friends with some of the IT people and tell them to share the bandwith or open a port:)
Yea i just moved into a college dorm too, and i keep getting nat errors and such. I average 2kb/s when the faces are green but most of the time they stay red or yellow. I've been trying to download one movie for five days and it is only 3% done. It is a pain in the butt dude
