Azureus Help

[scar1]

Okay, I have a linksys bfrsr81 which is the same as the 41 but with more ports. Anyway, I have followed the portforward directions, and done everything I possibly could do and Azureus refuses to work correctly. Right now I have the port on Azureus set to 65531 because portforward.com said I can use any port from like 42561 to 65580 or something like that. I've tried multiple random numbers and I get the following message:

Testing port 65531 ... Unable to test: Invalid port given, or test service failed.
Another application may already be using this port.

I have no firewalls (windows firewall is off), and I'm using sp2. The faces are green sometimes and I'll get speeds around 80 kb, but the NAT thing doesn't say "OK" like it should. It has in the past randomly and I have no idea why it worked and why it doesn't now. I also am getting 0kb upload for some reason and I have it set to 25 in options. If someone can solve this problem so that I have no nat errors and my upload starts working I will be very grateful. Btw, I currently have ports 6881 to 6999, 6969, 16881, 49180, 65531 forwarded on my router to 192.168.1.101. in ipconfig the ip is 192.168.1.101 and the default gateway is 192.168.1.1. I'm assuming forwarding the ports to 192.168.1.101 is correct. In the DMZ host option its at 192.168.1.101, even though I have no clue what that does. Thank you.

Right now my dl is green but the speed is 1 kb. It was at about 200 for a couple of hours last night, with the same amount of seeds.

[ccc1005]

I would try a different port, try the default 6881 port and see what happens. 65535 is the max port you can use, so try something smaller and see what happens.

[scar1]

I changed it to 6881 and it still spikes from like 3 kb to 100 kb randomly. Still can't get any upload which I would like to get.

[lifehacker]

You could always try a different client such as uTorrent and see if anything changes. Also who is your isp?

[ccc1005]

Try enabling encryption in Azureus, go to Options -> Connection -> Encryption. Your ISP might be shaping some of the traffic, so the encryption should get around it.

[scar1]

I have comcast internet. I will try uTorrent.

[scar1]

I'm now using uTorrent and when I first ran it, it said the port it is using is OK and I just saw the upload get to 30 with dl at about 20, now the dl has gone up to 70 and upload dropped immediately to .1 kb

dl now at 130 constant, .1 kb upload though...

[ccc1005]

Thats pretty odd, I have Comcast at home and it was downloading around 200 KB/s and upload at a constant 20-30 KB/s using Azureus. Are you connected to all seeds by any chance?

[scar1]

right now in uTorrent I'm getting 200 kb down with 10(11) seeds and .1 up with 3(5) peers

The upload is strange, I've seen it randomly go to about 30 for 5 minutes and the download will usually go down a bit, then the upload dies shortly after. I've messed with the encrypted connection thing and it doesn't change anything.

[lifehacker]

You could try limithing your download and see if your upload goes up. Also how many upload slots are you using? If nothing helps you could always seed after you finish downloading.

[ccc1005]

Well with Comcast, its usually 6Mbps down and 384 or 512 Kbps up, so I dont think recieving at 200 KB/s is going to do much to affect upload.

[scar1]

I'm getting good dl speeds for all my dls now but upload is almost always at 0.0 or 0.1 kb. =(

[lifehacker]

Just upload when you're done downloading if nothing else works.

[cjules13]

You've only got 3-5 peers, you're not going to be able to upload much.

I think given the swarm you're in, the speeds you're getting are about right. Get on a torrent with 500 seeds and 300 leeches and you see the full power of uTorrent and Comcast. You should see ~700-800kb/s down, and ~70k up. That's typical max pipe for Comcast.

[ccc1005]

You've only got 3-5 peers, you're not going to be able to upload much.

I think given the swarm you're in, the speeds you're getting are about right. Get on a torrent with 500 seeds and 300 leeches and you see the full power of uTorrent and Comcast. You should see ~700-800kb/s down, and ~70k up. That's typical max pipe for Comcast.

Peaking at 700-800 maybe but not steady, for me Comcast is max 6 Mbps/512 Kbps, so in the best conditions it will get about 750 KB/s at a peak. I doubt you will be able to hold those kinds of speeds at all, I usually see around 200-300 on average.

[cjules13]

I peak at 1.2Mb/s with 750kb/s constant (on my favorite trackers, not public). I only pay for the 6MB down product, but they must be letting some extra slip through from time to time.

700MB file takes about 8-12 minutes to get...

[ccc1005]

Try doing a speed test at http://myspeed.visualware.com/index.html (Click Broadband test)

Let me know what you get. I get 2.5 Mbps when i use the wireless network (only B) and 5.5ish when I use the computer wired into the router.

Also do I assume you meant 1.2 MB/s? Thats almost 10 Mb/s, very nice :)

[cjules13]

I'll try it when I get home...

No, I mean Mbit, not Mbyte... I think you got em switched...

1MB = 8Mb
MB= mega-byte
Mb=mega-bit

[ccc1005]

Ya I know its 8bits=1 bytes, but 750 Kb/s is peanuts, and 70 Kb/s is dial-up speed. Do you get 700 KB/s or 700 Kb/s download?

Because otherwise you aren't even getting close to the 6 Mbps pipe, if you only get 1.2 Mbps...

[cjules13]

BT speeds are measured in kb/s, meaning that if I download at 750kb/s, then that is equivalent to 750 x 8 = 6000kbs ~= 6MB down. So with a 6MB pipe maxed out, you should average 750kbs down.

Comcast also offers 8MB speeds in my area, which may explain why they may struggle a little bit in throttling their 6MB customers like me... so I occasionally peak higher than my max.

[ccc1005]

BT speeds are measured in kb/s, meaning that if I download at 750kb/s, then that is equivalent to 750 x 8 = 6000kbs ~= 6MB down. So with a 6MB pipe maxed out, you should average 750kbs down.

Comcast also offers 8MB speeds in my area, which may explain why they may struggle a little bit in throttling their 6MB customers like me... so I occasionally peak higher than my max.
You have em reversed tho ;) B is bytes, whereas b is bits. So the line is 6 Mbps (bits) and the download is 750 KB/s (bytes)

So when you download in Bittorrent with 1.2 MB/s its 9.6 Mb/s on the line which is well over the 6Mbps. You sure are lucky :)

[cjules13]

bits, bytes, yeah it's all confusing... I think you're right though...;) Mixed up my B'b's After I thought you had em reversed!

[ccc1005]

It sure is confusing, one missed capital and the whole meaning is different. You must have a great connection there with Comcast to be getting those speeds!

[cjules13]

I only get that speed consistently on 2 trackers. Fortunately, these 2 are all you need. These guys I'm leeching from have multiple seeder boxes set up as well as optical speeds.

Standard trackers are more like you mentioned, 200-300KBs down (did I get it right?).

Also being in a massive metropolitan area helps I'm sure.

[ccc1005]

Yup 200-300 here, and I'm in coastal NH, not exactly metropolitan, haha.