p13.m4n Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 (edited) yeah this thing is like way off what this whole forum was intended for but, what the hell. yeah so, i dont have any firewall, router or any sort of things like that, and my ISP isnt mean. yet, my torrent downloads are very low speed. especially a big one im downloading right now, it gets low as 5 b/s yet it has like, over 1000 peers. 5 b/s... yes thats bits, not kilobites. highest speed i got with bittorrent is about... 40kb/s or so (i dont keep my eye on the speeds constantly... i get lazy like that). and i have nothing that would slow down my speed. no firewall, router or anything (as mentioned above). i do have norton antivirus, but i dont think it makes any difference. i have the fastest residential cable internet rogers offers. what's wrong? please help. (lol im feeling too lazy to capitalize i etc., etc.) Edited August 27, 2005 by p13.m4n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Million Knives Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Check your connections...If most of the are local youre f*cked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p13.m4n Posted August 27, 2005 Author Share Posted August 27, 2005 Check your connections...If most of the are local youre f*cked. hmm? what are you talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandthefter Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Have you limited your upload rate? Change your listening port. On the connection tab have everything ticked except 'Enable UPnP Port Mapping'. That should speed it up a couple of kb/s. What connection do you have, though it's mainly the people you're uploading from, i have a 2Mb connection yet i get speeds of 6kb/s everynow and then, the highest i've had is 55kb/s. Configure nornton to accept your torrent programme too, maybe that would help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waste Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 What BT client are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p13.m4n Posted August 27, 2005 Author Share Posted August 27, 2005 i'd say i have a pretty fast internet service, with 'Modem set-up of up to 5.0 Mbps download and 800 Kbps upload.' (taken from the ISP's site, http://www.shoprogers.com/Store/Cable/Inte...ent/extreme.asp) umm yeah, the max speed i got to with the thing im downloading right now is about... crap i forgot. 20, 30 kb/s? i kinda forget. max download speed is maximum, same with the upload speed. im using azureus. i've tried different ports, and made no difference. it's been 3 hours and 42 mins since the download, and i've only downloaded 42 megs of it. wow... what's wrong!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waste Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Use the NAT testing plugin that's built in. (Tools >> NAT/Firewall test.) Which one of these is showing up to the left of the torrents: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p13.m4n Posted August 27, 2005 Author Share Posted August 27, 2005 Use the NAT testing plugin that's built in. (Tools >> NAT/Firewall test.)Which one of these is showing up to the left of the torrents: hmm. i actually did that... health is fine, port says its OK, all seems fine, just the speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waste Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Well, then i would say you are downloading from a sh*tty tracker. Either that or you are downloading files with a sh*tload of leechers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 I feel like a broken record repeating this almost as much as I mention the spyware thing...better known as Wolf Scans Just because you have a bunch of people connected to download from doesn't mean you're going get high speeds. There are 2 main reasons why this is with BT. 1. A person's upload speeds are divided with each person that he uploads to. You download a file from 10 people, but they could also be uploading to 10 othe people besides you. 2. Just because you have 10 people connected to you as seeders doesn't mean they have the enough of the peice to serve to you. I'll try to explain this if I can You're downloading a file that's 100MB. You have 10 people connect to you but only 2 of these people have the full file, you're 25% of the file and the other 8 people only have 10% of the file. So those 8 people have nothing they can offer you, however you do have something to offer them along with the other 2 people that have the full. I hope that makes sense. And no Norton AntiVirus doesn't matter...it's an anti-virus not a firewall. Now if you have Norton Internet Security (firewall) or whatever they are calling it these days, then yes that would matter. That being said make sure you know the difference as to which one you say you have. No one said P2P networks were perfect and super fast every time. I spent a week downloading 10GB of GitS Stand Alone Complex (anime cartoon not the game) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayC Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 You might be behind a transparent proxy, I am. Go to www.whatismyip.com and if it says proxy dedected ignore the number for that and copy your actualy IP. Then download bittornado and go prefs > advanced and the paste your IP in the top box. Save and restart the client. Should improve your speed. Or your ISP might block the common bittorrent ports (i.e. 6881-6889) so change the ports it use to like 10000-11000 or some crap like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p13.m4n Posted August 27, 2005 Author Share Posted August 27, 2005 lol. in swarm, 144 seeds and a whopping 1155 peers. im connected to 15 seeds and 64 peers. lawl. this sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 There's always more leechers...err peers...than seeders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Million Knives Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Yes...Dont you just love the idiots who close the torrent as soon as the download finishes, then goes off the the site and "THX GUYS WORK GR8!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opius Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 But then there's always people like me that will happily give back... (Not warez, Galaxy Angel Z wasn't licenced then) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Million Knives Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 But then there's always people like me that will happily give back... (Not warez, Galaxy Angel Z wasn't licenced then) 155 gb !?! And is the 34.6 your share ratio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opius Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 From left: Torrent filename, Contents filesize, Seeds, Peers, Upload speed, Share ratio, Total uploaded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Million Knives Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Thats insane. I hope there were more people like you. By the way, what client is that? I use bitcomet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opius Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Azereus. It's not nice on memory though, so if your current client works fine there's not many reasons for upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bond996 Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Azereus. It's not nice on memory though, so if your current client works fine there's not many reasons for upgrading. You mean there are Bittorent clients that are nice on memory? I've used the original, Azureus, and ABC, and I found ABC used the least processor/memory, but it still used a more then sufficient amount and wasn't too far behind Azureus. The original client used more then Azureus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Million Knives Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 BitComet is pretty easy on the system...It uses barely none memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoSNightmarE Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 on the subject of memory friendly clients, i use bittornado and it seems to work well. i dont think ive had memory problems with that one at all. Azureus gave me a hard time every now and then with the 256mb when i had a lot open...but not bittornado. cleaner interface too. and damn. 155gb is awesome. you should clone those habits onto more ppl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parry Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 I use BitLord and ive never had a problem but im pretty sure BitLord is based on BitComet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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