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<div class="IPBDescription">kinda rant+help</div> is silly >:/
I have 300k cable
no firewall - but XP one
And I upload more than I download... *checks right now* Downloadrate 1kb, Upload rate 7kB >:/
How can I get my download faster? I am using standard BT client
since 00:00 GMT
Total Downloaded: 71.0
Total Uploaded: 232.5
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I have 300k cable
no firewall - but XP one
And I upload more than I download... *checks right now* Downloadrate 1kb, Upload rate 7kB >:/
How can I get my download faster? I am using standard BT client
since 00:00 GMT
Total Downloaded: 71.0
Total Uploaded: 232.5
HATE <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Also, if you're using a client like Azureus which has a little icon displaying torrent "health" check that. In Azureus, a red face means that it's screwed, yellow face means you have problems and will be experiencing slow speeds while green means all is fine.
Also, check different torrents, if it has a low amount of seeds, there's a good chance that the bandwidth just isn't there for you to use.
Make sure all your ports are forwarded/opened.
Make sure you leave BT for a good long while, giving it time to pick up speed.
Make sure you haven't made a pact with satan.
Anyway, turn off the XP Firewall and get ZoneAlarm. (Buy it or something. Or you can use the free version, if you want.) I use ZoneAlarm Pro with Web Filtering. (4.5, I hate the new version. It gives me all kinds of connection problems.) See if that helps. The XP firewall is absolute crap. You'd be better off putting a spear in a lawn gnome's hand and having it stand in front of your computer shouting "HALT, WHO GOES THERE?"
Heh, Larry does a good job.
In a thread a long time ago people were praising the Sygate firewall, try that.
Use a client that alowes you to use one port, then set it to sometihng like 50,000.
There is a current trend to squelch anyone ussing standard P2P Ports, and if you are ussing the normal ones then you will probably be aquelched.
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Rofl you can produce junk in any language. That, and you need the right tool for the right job...
I would strongly suggest changing your BT ports to something higher, as the default range is generally throttled by ISPs. Choose a semi-random number, cuz everyone should have it different.
Or if there are 1000 peers and 10 seeds, then you're going to be slow regardless of what you do.
Setting your firewall to "lalala I'm not listening" isn't doing you any favors either.
I'm guessing you mean 3mbits/second cable, probably with a 384kbit/sec upload. Set your max upload at about 40kbytes per second (never unlimited, at most 80-90% of max to let TCP acks get through), and you should be downloading at least as fast as you upload after a few minutes.
What do you mean by that? Are people ignoring users on the standard BT ports or are 'authorities' monitoring them?
it isn't the client that limits your downspeed it is the other peers/server.
the reason why you get carp downspeeds when behind a firewall is b/c you are not uploading, and thus no one sends you pieces back <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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other P2P users are squelching them (generaly b/c things coming through those ports are watched/squelched by colleges and other such things)
Fix ur ports, thats how i did it(i was like you getting 0~1kbs down and about 5~10 kbs upload, fix my ports i get 50kbs down and 5~20 upload, because my pc hosts a network using wingate). I use bitornado because its simple and has all the options i need. Switch off that nasty XP firewall before trying another firewall prog and just check if the dl speeds up. Maybe theres a problem with ur isp(isps can block ports if they want).
What is difference in using different ports in terms of connections between peers? BT has always confused me on this.
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/me mutters something about the future of the BT network.
Edit2: As long as you keep the torrent running, I forgive you. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
:'(
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Cold-NiTe mate, stop posting miliseconds before me. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Anyway, AFAIK, there's no real difference. Clients and seeds will use just about any port they can mutally connect on. Any one port won't give you a speed increase just because it's a different port. However, if your firewall blocks one tpyical BT port range, and you switch to another one, you'll get faster speeds as you are now uploading more packets.
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/me mutters something about the future of the BT network.
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ha, hey i leave the torrents to seed after i'm done, i just dont give up so much of my bandwidth.
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/me mutters something about the future of the BT network.
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ha, hey i leave the torrents to seed after i'm done, i just dont give up so much of my bandwidth. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Point retracted. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Anyway, AFAIK, there's no real difference. Clients and seeds will use just about any port they can mutally connect on. Any one port won't give you a speed increase just because it's a different port. However, if your firewall blocks one tpyical BT port range, and you switch to another one, you'll get faster speeds as you are now uploading more packets. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> My apologies Blue.
I just figured that sometimes, even without a firewall, changing to the right port would have a dramatic increase on my download speeds. I remember I used to download from a place that had this python tracker that the people who ran it said that it required some specific port otherwise you would get a NAT error. I was thinking that what port you should be on is determined by the tracker you are connected to.
Right now for instance I am downloading through BT and the speeds are mind numbingly slow. I have a 3MB line that is sitting here doing 11kbps. I capped my upload at 15kbps (though when I start seeding I take off the cap). What I don't get is;
A.) Why can I see how many Seeds & Peers I am connected to but not how many there are total.
b.) Why do I get a Yellow Light in Azureus for every torrent I use for the last month or so.
C.) What can I change to fix this?
My client is BitTornado.
There is a lot of information in <a href='http://forums.degreez.net/' target='_blank'>this forum</a> about slow downloading and yellow status indicators.
Damnit, people, <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='turret.gif' /><!--endemo--> are called <i>turrets</i>, not <i>t<b>o</b>rre<b>n</b>ts</i>! That <b>n</b> that keeps creeping in there is bad enough, but an <b>o</b> as well?!
....oh, wait. Never mind...
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Amen. It's basic but it gets the job done.
Just pick good torrents with a decent amount of peers on. I do my torrents at 3am when the Americans do it, so i get more bandwith ^_^.
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Port to use for BT?
50000 (you can configgure your client and your firewall to work with that port)
up vs down speed?
yah, you don't have to share MUCH, but if you share nothing you get nothing.
Also, 5k up = 15k up general (most clients list your up speed per client, not your total upspeed for all the clients connected to you)
if you are getting yellws on the froggy proggy (AZ) then you are probably firewalled. IF you are behind a hardware firewall you probably changed your IP and it is fowarding ports to the wrong computer.
otherwise, just reconfigure your port (if it is still asking for a port range, then upgrade your copy of AZ as the new ones only need one port)
if you actualy play with em you will find that you can probably get better rates by setting them to something other then 0.
well that is assuming you want to do ANYTHING else when you download.