Azureus Slowness

[smooshie]

Hello,

I'm new to all this file-sharing stuff, found the forums while searching for a solution to my problem...

Anyways, my torrent downloads are very slow (Up Speed shows up as 0 kb/s, Down Speed as 0 through 3.1 kb/s).

The "health" bar is green, no errors reported anywhere.

My Internet connection is a LAN (connects to the university network) via an Ethernet connection (I don't know much about networking, is that OK?)

The application is Azureus 2.2.0.2, just downloaded it yesterday.

The .torrent file I am trying to download is a TV episode from http://www.btefnet.net/

I am on Windows XP SP2. I am running Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Norton Anti-Virus, and Ad-Free (banner-ad blocker), along with Azureus of course.

A BIG thank you for any and all assistance :tilted

[Krell]

If no one is SEEDING that file, then you get nothing from nothing

If they are uploading at 1k . . then you get part of 1k . . . .

Bloody freakin leechers suck up torrents and never seed back, therefore, everyone suffers.

Its also very possible that ports used by azurus are being bandwidth controlled by the university.

Beyond that, it would be very difficult to do more than speculate as to what your problem is at your location.

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[legendsofaranna]

well some other files with lots of seeders like virtuafem doesn't even start to download

[ivand67]

It is almost common knowledge that the torrents on BTEFnet.net are always gonna be a lot slower than on many other sites. Reasons for that:

1. There are a ton of leechers and cheaters on that site that don't care to upload shit.
2. The seeder-to-leecher ratio there is about 1 to 1000 on new torrents.
3. The trackers are really busy so it'll take some time to connect.

Lesson learned (which I learned about 9 months ago): Ditch BTEFNET.com (or .net or whatever). TVTorrents was much better, but even when they were around, I was still using EliteTorrents, TorrentBytes and ShunTV to download shows. It's way faster.

http://elitetorrents.org - registration is probably closed though, try to get an invite or check the site every month to see if they open it.
http://www.torrentbytes.net - same thing
http://tracker.shuntv.net - I think these guys still have reg. open

Also, make sure you've changed your port number to something in between 49000 to 65000:

Why do I get a "rejected by tracker - Port xxxx is blacklisted" error?

Your client is reporting to the tracker that it uses one of the default bittorrent ports (6881-6889) or any other common p2p port for incoming connections.

[Name of site] does not allow clients to use ports commonly associated with p2p protocols. The reason for this is that it is a common practice for ISPs to throttle those ports (that is, limit the bandwidth, hence the speed).

The blocked ports list include, but is not neccessarily limited to, the following:

Direct Connect
411 - 413
Kazaa
1214
eDonkey
4662
Gnutella
6346 - 6347
WinMX
6699
BitTorrent
6881 - 6889

In order to use use our tracker you must configure your client to use any port range that does not contain those ports (a range within the region 49152 through 65535 is preferable, cf. IANA). Notice that some clients, like Azureus 2.0.7.0 or higher, use a single port for all torrents, while most others use one port per open torrent. The size of the range you choose should take this into account (typically less than 10 ports wide. There is no benefit whatsoever in choosing a wide range, and there are possible security implications).

These ports are used for connections between peers, not client to tracker. Therefore this change will not interfere with your ability to use other trackers (in fact it should increase your speed with torrents from any tracker, not just ours). Your client will also still be able to connect to peers that are using the standard ports. If your client does not allow custom ports to be used, you will have to switch to one that does.

Do not ask us, or in the forums, which ports you should choose. The more random the choice is the harder it will be for ISPs to catch on to us and start limiting speeds on the ports we use. If we simply define another range ISPs will start throttling that range also.

Finally, remember to forward the chosen ports in your router and/or open them in your firewall, should you have them. See the Why is my port listed as "---" section and links therein for more information on this.

Your ISP may be limiting the default ports of BitTorrent.