Pacbell DSL-low seed#, slow dl rate, help?

[kak007]

I am on Mac OS X 10.4.7, and use the default BitTorrent TM client. It's worked tremendously in the past with no problems at my old residence (cable modem and router).

I moved and now have Pacific Bell (or SBC? I'm not sure) DSL.

I went to the HomePortal setup page, and I think I set it up correctly to forward the ports. First I tried 6881-6889 on TCP, 84600 timeout (default), and map-to port of 6881.

I was getting a few seeds but not too many. Usually between 4-9, even on listing with 200+ seeds. Download speeds also didn't get above 10 kb/s.

I thought maybe it was the 'evil ISP' syndrome, so I changed the forwarded ports to 16881-16889, adjusted my OS X firewall accordingly, and changed the listening port in the client to 16881. Now it won't find any seeds, or maybe 2 or 3, but won't download at all.

What gives?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[kak007]

OK quick update. I rebooted OS X (thinking the firewall needed that) and it seems to have helped. But I'm back to the first problem. I have 3 torrents open and it seems like it won't let me have more than 10 total seeds combined from all of them. Download speeds are slow :( any suggestions?

[kak007]

Another update. Download speeds are slowly creeping up. One torrent is at 30kb/s and another at 20kb/s. This still seems sort of slow though doesn't it? I can get 400kb/s from sites like the Archive through http downloading.

[derekb]

in utorrent you can use the settings to adjust how many connections you have per torrent
can you do this in bittorent tm?

[kak007]

no.

and just to clarify its not called BitTorrent TM - the tm stands for trademark.