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I Need Bitcomet Help
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Ian1324
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7. May 2006 @ 07:49 |
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Welcome All,
I have been using BitComet 0.64 for around a year now and understand it fully, however, about 4 months ago for no reason whatsoever my speeds have dropped hugely. Let me point out a few things:
My Ports are forwardered correctly (using guide on portforward.com)
The torrent(s) I use have a large amount of seeders
I have both 'Local' and 'Remote' in the 'Initiation' field
I have tried Azureus and Utorrent with no success
I have tried everything, using many guides both on this forum and others, and I still cannot get my speeds back to how they used to be. My speeds are largely 0kB/s but tend to go to around 5kB/s before dropping again, I have a 100Mbps connection (1 Meg). As I say I have used many guides and completed many tests on my router to ensure ports are forwarded corrently.
Below are some pictures showing my Bitcomet, Bitcomet Listen Port, Router Ports)
It may also be worth mentioning that I have a laptop with built-in wireless access which conencts to my router.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ian
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 7. May 2006 @ 08:03
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7. May 2006 @ 09:09 |
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A simple answer might be that most sights started banning BitComet a few months ago. You can't disable DHT and the security and ratio data it sends to the tracker is usually off. Most private trackers have banned BitComet, BitLord and BitSpirit. Try changing clients, everyone else has had to already to something simple like uTorrent or complex like Azureus. Most sites ban you if your caught using BitComet. You might start by checking the site rules or FAQ's on banned clients.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 7. May 2006 @ 19:10
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Ian1324
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9. May 2006 @ 11:02 |
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I've tried using utorrent and Azureas aswell, and I've also completed the test within Azureas I think it was that checks the port forwarding, and it came back saying everything should be running fine.
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9. May 2006 @ 11:15 |
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This is me not understanding you.
100Mbits is not 1Meg...of anything.
If you actually have a 100mbit connection, then I don't know how much you're paying for it, but it's not enough...several hundreds of dollars a month.
What I think you mean is that you have a 1megabit connection, but under that circumstance your speeds would rarely go above 100k/s.
First off, regardless of trying other clients, get rid of bitcomet. It's an insecure leech client. I always recommend Azureus/uTorrent/ABC in that order. Now you say you've tried utorrent and Azureus with no luck, but your lights are still green, then there's really a couple options.
1. You're throttled. You d/led too much, and your provider decided you did too much, and you're padded. Doubtful though, because then you couldn't download normal stuff very fast either. Go to www.toast.net and click on "internet speed test". Use the "shuttle + text" test, and see what kinda speeds you get. This will help you figure out if you're capped, if someone is leeching your bandwidth, or something similar.
2. Your ISP is checking headers. You need uTorrent or Azureus now, because you've got to enable encrypted headers.
3. You're capped @ the tracker...maybe you have a crappy ratio, and you need to seed for a good, long time.
4. Maybe you've got something else interfering w/ your traffic. Your ports will still show green, but something else could be stepping in. Maybe you autoupdated winblows and now your firewall is on, maybe your antivirus is getting in the way. Perhaps you've got virii, or spyware, or something else. Again, the toast.net speed test will help you determine this.
Good luck, post back.
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Ian1324
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9. May 2006 @ 11:28 |
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Thanks for the reply, I've completed the speed test at toast.net and I've got a screenshot here. Also, I followed the guide at http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Belkin... with no success. I've also included screenshots of utorrent's speed and logger tabs, as the logger tab shows a windows firewall error, however, I dont have windows firewall enabled.
Hope these screeshots can help to identify my problem and possible solution.
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13. May 2006 @ 06:23 |
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It look like you had 10 different windows or programs running with everything in your taskbar. Try turning off the firewall or putting utorrent.exe into your exception listing.
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Ian1324
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13. May 2006 @ 06:27 |
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I dont have a firewall..., that screenshot shows that my firewall is off
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13. May 2006 @ 07:10 |
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How about McAfee or Norton firewall? If not maybe your ISP has you behind a NAT firewall. Have you tested your connection?
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Ian1324
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13. May 2006 @ 07:14 |
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Well my router has a firewall on but thats never been a problem in the past, also, when you say test my connection how do you mean? I have done a speed test a toast.net, the screenshot is a few posts above. Any more help would be appreciated. Also my MSN transfers and limewire as equally as slow, but I can download from sites (fileplanet etc...) at around 50kb/s.
Hope this information is of use
Ian
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Ian1324
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29. August 2006 @ 14:35 |
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Can anyone help?
It would be greatly appreciated
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Ian1324
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29. August 2006 @ 18:18 |
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I've fixed the problem, so I'm going to post how i fixed it incase anyone else had the same problem as me
I followed DVDBack23's excellent guide on utorrent and went to speakeasy.net and did a speed test, the result was 480kbs, which once devided etc.. came to 48.5 kb/s, I put 48 into my max upload slot and hey presto!, i can now download at a steady 50kbs instead of the usual 1kb/s on a good day!
you can find this guide at http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/335210 and I'd just like to thank all of you who replyed and helped me with this problem, in particular DVDBack23 for writing his guide on utorrent which helped me to solve my year long problem with bitcomet
Thank you all
Ian
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Ian1324
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30. August 2006 @ 02:56 |
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I don't f**king believe it, months I've spent getting bitcomet working, I've tried everything, then last night (well, this morning) it suddenly starts working, I goto bed and wake up to see they've stopped again.
I now know why...my ISP is talktalk, and from what I've read they block all p2p during the day, and only allow torrent downloading or any kind of downloading for that matter between 1am-9am.
Well thats that, just whatever you do people, dont ever go on talktalk, what a f**king scam!!
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