Bittorent Problems

I remember the days when I usta think that 200kb/sec was slow for me, but I am getting high speeds of 10kb/sec even on popular torrents

Its like that on my old desktop and the new laptop I got so I am kind aocnfused.

Someone have some bittorent advice for me ??

It will be greatly appreciated.

 

which client are you using? maybe you have to port forward

 

The seeder could be on a slow connection?

 

Yeah try looking at your router settings if you are behind a router.

 

most likely, you have not opened up the required ports for your bitTorrent client. By the name of your thread, I assume that you use the original bitTorrent client.

The other reason why you might be getting slow download speeds is because there aren't many people who are seeding the file. Generally, the more popular the file, the faster the download speeds of the file. The d/l speed is also greatly restricted by your internet connection speed. I have a 512Kbit/s DSL conenction and the fastest D/L speeds for me is 64KB/s. You can work out your maximum download speeds by dividing your internet connection speed by 8 to give a Kb/s figure. In my case 512 divided by 8 is 64. If your download speeds are significantly lower than what they could be, go through this process.

If you have a router, this is how open up your ports:

Step 1: Type your router IP address into the URL bar of your web browser.

Step 2: Log in to your router and go to the Virtual Server settings page.
The page should have a drop down box under Protocol or something like that.
In the drop down box, from the selection of UDP and TCP, select TCP.


Step 3: Open up bitTorrent. Go into File and then settings, and then click the connection tab on the top of the new small window that pops up. In a little box, there will be a five digit number. Copy that number or jot it down. You can also choose a different number that is within the limits which is shown in brackets next to the small box.

Step 4: In the same tab, uncheck the box underneath the port number box that says enable automatic port mapping.

Step 5: Go back into the virtual servers page of your router management site, and punch the number you jotted down into the four different boxes which are external port start and end as well as internal port start and end.
The number in the box in bitTorrent and in those four boxes on the virtual servers page must correspond.

Step 6: Click apply chnages and log out of your router management console.

Step 7: Windows firewall is always a hinderance to bitTorrent, go to start, control panel, security centre. Scroll to the bottom of the security centre window to where it says Manage Security Settings for.....Click on Windows firewall.

Step 8: In the new window that comes up entitled windows firewall, click the "off" option. A bubble thing will come up out of the system tray and say that you have no firewall enabled. Don't worry, your router most likely will have a firewall.

Your ports that bitTorrent uses will now be open to use. The router management console page is different for every router, and if you find steps 2 and 5 confusing, visit http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm
and click your router serial number which is usually found underneath or on the side of your router. Then, click BitTorrent form the list of programs.

Hope this helps,
Mayz

 

Hmmm, I didn't know that 10kbps was strange for bittorent, its all I have ever known for bittorent. I shall also look into this.

 

Why don't you try a different torrent client. Utorrent is pretty straight forward to configure and very light.

 

It does not matter which client you have. If the port is not open then it won't work. If you have a problem with one client, you'll have a problem with all clients.