The specs:
- Running Win2K
- Cable connection
- Running Peerguardian2 and AVG virus (etc) protection.
- hardware firewall only (router)
- Router: DI-524, configured for port forwarding for ports 10000 through 10010, BitTornado configured same.
- UPnP disabled (as was recommended with this router)
- dslreports speed tests (admittedly run while BitTornado was doing its thing)indicate my download speed averages around 1350 Kb/s (with a spike up to around 3000 on one test). Upload speed seems to hover between 322-500 Kb/s, usually in the 350 range.
I've been playing the the Settings/Upload rates (etc.) to try to maximize my speed (for both up- & download), because a couple of downloads took *forever* and were downloading at between 1 and 10 kB/s according to BitTornado (upload rates similar) when I had the setting at "automatic" (which i now know is not a good idea!). Tried "cable/fast", "T1" and "T3+".
Currently (and best rate average so far), I am running a download rate of 40-60kBps (with occasional dips to 25) connected to 2 peers and no seeds (clearly two other people like me have about 65% of the file -- hoping for a full seed soon!). Upload is not happening right now because there's nobody asking, but it is enable, with a maximum # of uploads manually set to 5.
Here are the settings that have worked best (below). Thoughts/advice from those who are more familiar with configuring BitTornado for maximum efficientcy would be appreciated!
I'm set to T3+
upload rate set at 300kB/s
Max uploads 5
default max download rate 250 kB/s
min peers = 20
max peers = 40
This setup seems to be resulting in the aforementioned 40-60 kBps download rate.
Anything else I can do to get this sucker running better? I'm new to torrents but fairly experienced with computers. Not an expert, though, so careful with the tech shorthand if you want me to understand easily! (I have read about the diff between kB/s and kb/s -- though I'm not real clear on the math! -- and with all the rates listed in this message I have carefully transcribed exactly what the particular rate measurement was)
First, do you get a green light in Bittornado, could be your ISP if not. Check here: http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs or post it if not there, maybe someone know's. Your upload with those speed's can be set around 32 KB (1 KB = 8 kb) You convert to KB and take 80% of that for torrent's Is Bittornado allowed through your firewall? And speed's are going to be terrible on a torrent with no seed and two peer's, maybe non existant. PS: speed's on Cable can fluctuate greatly depending on day and time, take the test on a few days at different times to get a good average. This is a good test too: http://www.speedtest.net/
Yeah, I realized the current download was by definition going to be lame because of the lack of participants. This is atypical, normally there *are* actually several seeds in the torrents I download. :)
Yep, green light is typical for me when downloading (though for a while on this one it was blue because of lack of seeds, but then a couple of seeds & more peers signed on -- light went green, and things got better) -- the basics of the system itself seem to be functioning for sure.
ISP is cogeco hi-speed (*not* lite)-- so there may be some seeding prevention going on, but I don't have anything useful to seed from scratch, to be honest, other than simply making it possible for other downloaders to upload while (and after) I download -- it's only fair! I don't do a lot of torrent download, and I'm far from a high-bandwidth user. Actually, it's typical for my uploads to go a bit faster than my downloads.
No software firewall, only hardware, and believe have allowed all appropriate protocols required to keep things moving smoothly. Can't find the site right now that walked me through the router setup for port-forwarding but it had pretty detailed instructions. I just checked and as far as I can tell, BitTornado has been formally "allowed" to do its thing on all the relevant open ports (10000 - 10010) on my router *and* through the embedded firewall.
Tested my speeds with at the site you sent me, range higher now (late afternoon) at 4500-7500 kb/s download and 520-550 kb/s upload.
I have successfully downloaded files as large as 6GB (it took a few hours, but I can live with that). The thing is the 3GB file I most recently downloaded took almost *three days* even though there were a respectable number of seeds and peers and that just doesn't seem right, somehow.
Is there a chance that I have too many block-lists going on PeerGuardian? I've got 22 lists uploaded (3 p2p lists, a couple of education institutions & government/police lists, and some spyware/adware/hijacker lists).
I mean, I'll work with whatever I have to in terms of download speed, but I'd feel better if things weren't quite so tortoise-like, you know?
If you have a green light, you're pretty well set. Set to Cable/fast, upload's to 4 and max peers to 50 - 100. Make sure all torrent's have many seed's and peer's, more seed's than peer's. I've used PG for year's with just the p2p list and it's worked well or I've been lucky.
