Jib0k0
February 27th, 2008, 07:05 PM
Hey guys,
A little background info: I have been using Azureus to download torrents successfully for years now. I have a high speed ADSL connection (Bell Sympatico Canada) through a Linksys router. I am using Windows SP2. Until recently, I have always gotten excellent download speeds (about 300kB/s) on the 'downloading' computer. I used to set the upload limit at 65kB/s (which was almost always used up completely by the client). Fortunately for me, I did'nt have to do any router/client configuration to get these results (all the stars lined up I guess!).
However, things took a turn for the worse when I got greedy and decided to download torrents on another computer on the home network. At first, I was'nt getting the same speeds on the new conmputer as I used to get on the other 'downloading' computer (NAT problems). All guides on the net pointed to playing with port forwarding on the router to solve the problem, which I proceeded to do.
Now here is the bad part, after doing so, I now get terrible download speeds (~30kB/s) on both computers. Even though my upload limit is still set at 65kB/s, the client seldom uses all of it (~25kB/s) like it used to.
Right now I am just focusing on getting the original 'downloading' computer to download like it used to. I read through Malicious Intents' guide on this site as well as others online but I seem to have a mysterious probem that is hard to diagnose using information the aforementioned guides. I set the incoming port to 16881 in Azureus. I also setup port forwarding of ports 16000-17000 (TCP, UDP) on the router.
Here is the wierd part: there appears to be no NAT problems (green light), and there appears to be a lot of R and L connections. I even added Azureus and port 16881 to the exceptions in Windows firewall all to no avail (I don't have any other firewall). It is definitely not a seeds issue as I am currently downloading a torrent with over 7000 seeds and 17000 peers (I am connected to 89 seeds and 69 peers), and still not downloading a byte over 30kB/s.
Have any of you guys encountered a problem like this? I would greatly appreciate if any of you guys could diagnose the problem for me. I will gladly provide any other info if you need it. Thanks. Hope I did'nt bore you with this long 'essay' of a problem!
A little background info: I have been using Azureus to download torrents successfully for years now. I have a high speed ADSL connection (Bell Sympatico Canada) through a Linksys router. I am using Windows SP2. Until recently, I have always gotten excellent download speeds (about 300kB/s) on the 'downloading' computer. I used to set the upload limit at 65kB/s (which was almost always used up completely by the client). Fortunately for me, I did'nt have to do any router/client configuration to get these results (all the stars lined up I guess!).
However, things took a turn for the worse when I got greedy and decided to download torrents on another computer on the home network. At first, I was'nt getting the same speeds on the new conmputer as I used to get on the other 'downloading' computer (NAT problems). All guides on the net pointed to playing with port forwarding on the router to solve the problem, which I proceeded to do.
Now here is the bad part, after doing so, I now get terrible download speeds (~30kB/s) on both computers. Even though my upload limit is still set at 65kB/s, the client seldom uses all of it (~25kB/s) like it used to.
Right now I am just focusing on getting the original 'downloading' computer to download like it used to. I read through Malicious Intents' guide on this site as well as others online but I seem to have a mysterious probem that is hard to diagnose using information the aforementioned guides. I set the incoming port to 16881 in Azureus. I also setup port forwarding of ports 16000-17000 (TCP, UDP) on the router.
Here is the wierd part: there appears to be no NAT problems (green light), and there appears to be a lot of R and L connections. I even added Azureus and port 16881 to the exceptions in Windows firewall all to no avail (I don't have any other firewall). It is definitely not a seeds issue as I am currently downloading a torrent with over 7000 seeds and 17000 peers (I am connected to 89 seeds and 69 peers), and still not downloading a byte over 30kB/s.
Have any of you guys encountered a problem like this? I would greatly appreciate if any of you guys could diagnose the problem for me. I will gladly provide any other info if you need it. Thanks. Hope I did'nt bore you with this long 'essay' of a problem!