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PLEASE HELP
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Noobiedoo
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3. October 2005 @ 20:09 |
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I basically know jack-sh-- about computers and just downloaded a BitTorrent. I downloaded FF7: advent children,s sweet movie, in less than a few hours. Now every other download says it'll take 4 Days, my download rate is between 6-7KB/s and I have a CA3 ethernet port from Verizon on a Westell 2000 modem. Thanks
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4. October 2005 @ 13:46 |
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1. Do you have a router?
2. Do you operate behind a firewall?
3. Do you operate behind a proxy
4. Do your ISP block any ports?
5. What is your internet speed?
6. How many seeds are on the torrent?
7. Is the torrent on a registered tracker?
8. Have you waited to see if the torrent picks up speed?
Answer these questions first, and then we'll try and figure out the problem ;)
-Mike
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Noobiedoo
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4. October 2005 @ 13:53 |
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1. I don't have a router
2. Yes, I have an EZ Firewall protector as well as the standard WinXP firewall
3. Dont know how to find out
4. Dont know how to find out
5. 100.0 Mbps
6. see number 4
7. Yes
8. Yes it'll go up to 10Kb/s then back to 6
thanks
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4. October 2005 @ 14:40 |
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Ok.
Check if your firewall is configured to open the ports your BitTorrent client uses.
For your own sake, disable windows firewall, it only creates the illusion that you are protected by it.
If you don't know if your ISP blocks any ports, call them up and ask them!
If the tracker requires registration, have you registered?
-Mike
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4. October 2005 @ 14:50 |
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Noobiedoo
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4. October 2005 @ 17:00 |
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Okay... I just disabled my firewalls and opened up my ports through windows...but still slow. Do I still have to forward the ports if I don't have a router, if so how? Another thing, how would I configure my westell modem? thanks for everyone's help.
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4. October 2005 @ 18:52 |
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Noobiedoo
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4. October 2005 @ 21:19 |
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Aight, the guide helped me out alot, but still no increase. The highest is 25Kb/s. I used previous advice and opened up the ports to use BitTorrent, still slow. i then used the guide found out my speed (after the math) was 32kb/s. but after testing at broadbantreports.com it said my transfer rate was 104kb/s, should i use DRTCP or timetamping or does it matter. I then downloaded BitComet and changed the properties. I then registered with torrentleech and put the movie Oldboy in the torrent. I waited an hour to check the speed and it said 5Kb/s. What the hell, am i doing something wrong??
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mlinuxko
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4. October 2005 @ 23:01 |
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How many seeds/leechers there is? The less, the worse.
And if you are in state not connectable, speed will be lower.
Are you sure your calculations are correct?
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5. October 2005 @ 09:38 |
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Make sure you are not uploading/downloading when doing a speed test!
-Mike
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Noobiedoo
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5. October 2005 @ 11:17 |
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OK @ mlinuxko the highest number of seeds i saw that i downloaded was 230 for olldboy. i am sure that the math is right.
To Mike, I wasn't downloading when doing the speeed test and my results stayed the same. I also downloaded the DRTCP and changed the settings like broadbandreports told me. Now my browser is slower and my doenloads are only downloading at 1-5KB/s. I appreciate the help and its probably my lack of computer knowledge thats hurting me but I don't know what to do.
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5. October 2005 @ 12:02 |
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noobiedoo,
please post a screenshot of your speed test and then a screenshot of your tweak test results, becase you should definetely NOT have a decrease in speed after the test...
Also, i havent added it to my guide yet, but under prefernces in BC you should change Max connections to 90.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 5. October 2005 @ 12:04
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Noobiedoo
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5. October 2005 @ 12:58 |
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DVDBack23 Here's my speed test results:
Download Speed: 307 kbps (38.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 28 kbps (3.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
and my tweak reccommendations
1. Your Tweakable Settings:
Receive Window (RWIN): 65535
Window Scaling: off
Path MTU Discovery: ON
RFC1323 Window Scaling: OFF
RFC1323 Time Stamping: OFF
Selective Acks: ON
MSS requested: 1440
TTL:
(less any hops behind firewall)
127
TTL remaining: 116
2. Test 146000 byte download
Actual data bytes sent: 146000
Actual data packets: 102
Max packet sent (MTU): 1480
Max packet recd (MTU): 1480
Retransmitted data packets: 0
sacks you sent: 1
pushed data pkts: 5
data transmit time: 10.456 secs
our max idletime: 1842.2 ms
transfer rate: 8993 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 71 kbits/sec
This is not a speed test!
transfer efficiency: 100%
3. ICMP (ping) check
Minimum ping: 1517 ms
Maximum ping: 1672 ms
Ping stability:
1517 1625 1672 1661 - - - - - -
Notes and recommendations:
Enable TCP timestamping (FAQ #706)
for 'long fat' (high ping) pipes
Check FAQ on MTU for XP (FAQ #2252)
Choose RWIN between 5760 and 8640 (FAQ #586)
download/use DRTCP .. (FAQ #578)
Read the tweak FAQ
Notes and recommendations:
Good data stream (no/few rexmits)
1 second+ stall detected (FAQ #160
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5. October 2005 @ 15:39 |
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noobiedoo,
thanks for the response, but im gonna need to see a screenshot of the tweak test or i cant help you.
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Noobiedoo
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5. October 2005 @ 18:16 |
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Thanks for the response, but what exactly do you need a screenshot of and how how would I take this screenshot? Basically all the information that would be in the screenshot I copied and pasted for you. Is there something I missed?
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5. October 2005 @ 18:58 |
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yes, what you inserted at the top where it ask for your advertised speed and such.
To take a screenshot, press alt+prnt scrn and then paste that in Paint. Then upload that picture to http://imageshack.us and then post here.
good luck!
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6. October 2005 @ 09:41 |
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Can't you just press print screen without holding alt?
-Mike
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6. October 2005 @ 12:29 |
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Mike,
Holding alt only takes a screenshot of the top window, therefore...cutting out the desktop, etc that you might not want in the screenshots.
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6. October 2005 @ 13:03 |
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Nice, I'll keep that in mind, thanks :P
-Mike
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