This just started recently, but lately my Azureus has been worth nothing. It won't transfer at all, up or down. It says I am connected to multiple seeds, I have green smileys everywhere, but it doesn't actually connect to anything for long. I don't get anything higher than 1K/sec for more than a few seconds. Every few minutes, it re-queues everything and starts over. I haven't updated anything in a while, so nothing should have changed. My internet seems fine, so I can't figure out what it is. Any ideas?
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 there 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, it may be worth you checking out this guide if so:
?:::::::::::::::::Rav009?s Bit Torrent Privacy And Safety Guide:::::::::::::::::?
yep tried all that. The torrents run the gamut of seed/peer ratios, from 1050/100 to 0/2. What gets me is the reset every minute or so. They all are transfering fine (no actual transfer, but it looks like it is actually trying) and then they all stop, recheck, and queue up again.
