Download speeds - Ive tried everything.

[cali141]

I have a Netgear MR814 router, i use Bitcomet, and i have basic service from Comcast, my ISP. I use a wireless laptop.

Ive forwarded the ports on the router, checked all the firewalls (then shut them all off anyway), have limited my upload speeds, and tried unsuccessfully to make my IP static (it would cost more anyway).

I have not seen speeds above 30kb/s for a while now. Oddly enough though, while downloading one file (it was just another in a series i was downloading 1 by 1, nothing special about it), the speed went up into the 200s for most of the download. Thats the way it should always be, right?

I dont know what im missing, but im getting sick of trying to increase the speed.

[Digital Bliss]

First off how many computers do you have hooked up to your network? Secondly you are talking about bit torrent everyone should know by now no seeds no speed.

[cali141]

We have 4 computers hooked up, but the most that are ever on is 3, and mines the only one that does anything more than just websurfing.

I know about the no seeds, no speed thing. Just to test, i tried a Franz Ferdinand album which had over 300 seeds. Same speed as everything else, which was < 20kb/s. I let it sit there for an hour.

[Pirate_RRRRRR_IIIIII]

only thing I can think of is youre running windows xp sp2 and are running into the limitation they put on the max simultanious connections, which will slow down networks like bittorrent. if this is your problem http://mitglied.lycos.de/lvllord/download-mirror.htm go there and download the lastest version and follow the directions, I suggest a limit of 100, a huge improvment from the 10 sp2 limits you to. The other thing I would suggest is changing the default ports for your bittorrent program. So for example if your default port is 9999 change it to 19999 or anything other than 9999, I hear some isps limit the default port speeds for bittorrent but I'm not sure how true it is. Well good luck.

[DrainBamaged]

Another thing is to make sure your Software Firewall (if used) is NOT set to "Stealth" block unneed ports. Take Norton Internet Security 2005 for example. For those who use it and try to work with any BT Client at the same time... bad news, if you don't first go NIS...Options...Firewall...Advanced Security Settings...UNCHECK Stealth Blocked Ports. I am sure other programs have a similiar feature.

You will still get good software FW protection, but you will also watch those Seed Connection counts zoom up into the Green, again. ;)

[cali141]

Well, i tried all of what you said, and it didnt work. However, when downloading something else more popular, the speed did make its way to around 150 kb/s in a couple minutes. Maybe its just what im downloading after all. Argh... its so unbearably slow though!

BTW, it has 8 seed and 27 peers... is that low? I wouldnt think it would be low enough to cause the speeds im getting.