can someone please help me.
me ever i use torrent clients to download stuff it goes so slow now.
only the other day it use to go about 40-50kbps.
but now it only goes at 5-6kbps.
i've checked there no limits or nothing to the downloads. i've even changed the torrent client.
for some reason its only with torrents, when i use p2p it runs fine (i can go up to 250kbps).
i contacted demon (my ISP) to ask if they are capping torrent clients but they said no.
i cant be becuase there only a few seeders becuase on one torrent there about 500 seeders and still it goes slow!
PLEASE HELP!!!
If you are experiencing issues with your torrent speeds, please read on.
If you are using a router, please ensure that you have configured it to play nice with your BT d/l & u/l speeds, here are some
great guides on how to open and forward ports on your router:
*Step 1*
Router Configuration Guides
Slow Bit Torrent downloads? Router configuration tips (By CamDog):
If you have a firewall installed, you must allow your BT client full access to the network via <Inset firewalls name here>,
how to do this depends on what firewall you are using, information on how to do this is likely to be found on the manufacturers forums:
Windows firewall has no outband protection, meaning a full software firewall will prove much more effective.
*Step 3*
Download well seeded torrents, seed's are people who have the full file and are distributing, leech's/peers are people who are
aquiring the file, the more leech's the slower the speed as the seed can only upload xxxyyyzzz amount at one time, the greater
the upload & download speed of the seed the faster data can be transfered, a torrent with 100 seeds and 500 peers will go
very slow, as there are more people trying to download the file than share it, meaning less data can be uploaded to the peers
as theer is more to share it with.
A torrent with 100 seeds and 10 leechs will go very fast! as the seed can upload more to xxyyzz person as there is less
people to share it with.
Please tell us the amount of seed's and leech's on the torrent!
*Step 4*
If you have Windows ServicePack 2 installed, you'll need this:
Windows will prompt you with a pop up telling you system files are being altered, ignore this, click cancel, also your Anti Virus may alert you telling you this
patch is a virus, its not! so ignore that too :-)
*Step 5*
If there still slow, its possible your ISP is capping your BT download & upload speeds, you need to call them and ask them how they feel about
"Peer to Peer file sharing programs" and wether they have placed any caps.
