Green light, slow downloads???

[Jawa Slayer]

Hey guys, this is my first post.
I'm using Bit Tornado and have a 2meg connection. Even though I have plenty of seeds and peers connected my download speeds won't go above 20-30KB/s max, and the light is green. I've tried with many other clients and they are if anything worse, all with ports properly forwarded. The thing is I had good downloads, then something happened at night because the internet wouldn't work so I reset my router and bit torrent wouldn't let me connect, couldn't connect to UPnP, restarting the computer fixed this but noe I have the slow download problem. What else could be causeing slow downloads?
Cheers
Alex

[Krell]

4226 errors

seeders with no upload bandwidth

Its endless


Read the bajillion other BT threads before anyone else rehashes it all over again for the bajillionth and second time.




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[Hornet]

Hey guys, this is my first post.
I'm using Bit Tornado and have a 2meg connection. Even though I have plenty of seeds and peers connected my download speeds won't go above 20-30KB/s max, and the light is green. I've tried with many other clients and they are if anything worse, all with ports properly forwarded. The thing is I had good downloads, then something happened at night because the internet wouldn't work so I reset my router and bit torrent wouldn't let me connect, couldn't connect to UPnP, restarting the computer fixed this but noe I have the slow download problem. What else could be causeing slow downloads?
Cheers
Alex

Improve BitTorrent Download Speeds


1.0 Why are my downloads going slow?


1.1 Reason 1: Your ISP is limiting your download speed

Some ISPs are limiting download speeds by controlling the bandwidth allocated to traffic using the default BitTorrent ports, which are 6881 to 6999.

This is not just a problem for those who have nasty ISPs, it affects everybody. To avoid ISPs from damaging the efficiency of a torrent with their controls, some stringent tracker owners are blocking users trying to connect on the standard ports.

So whether your ISP is limiting you or not, all BitTorrent users should stop using the default ports.

For simplicity, this guide recommends the use of port 16881. Adding a 1 to the start is simple administratively, and is in a range unlikely to be used by other programs.

You then need to set up your client to use the new port.


1.2 Reason 2: You have a “NAT Error”

BitTorrent works on a credit system. By uploading parts of a file other people, they allow you to download parts of the file from them. This is BitTorrents anti-leech measure. However, if you have a problem with your NAT (anything between you and the internet, such as a router or firewall), you will not get credit for what you are uploading. The only downloading that you can do is from people who upload a small amount to you in the hope that you will return the favour. Since their client will not recognise your response if you have a NAT problem, then they will stop uploading to you shortly after. This is what is causing your problem. You may also notice that torrent speeds go very high for 5mins, before slowing back down to 0-5kb/s.


3.0 Multiple BitTorrent users on a LAN

The same port can not be forwarded to different computers, so decide who gets which ports, for example:
192.168.0.2 = 16881
192.168.0.3 = 16882 etc.

Set up your router or ICS to forward the ports to the chosen computers.


4.0 Other things that could be wrong

Try limiting your upload if you have ADSL/DSL. Sometimes BitTorrent can try to upload so much that it floods your upload, making it difficult for incoming connections.


5.0 Common BitTorrent problems

This section covers other problems which BT users may be suffering from.

5.1 Client or program freezing

Symptoms: Torrent starts well, achieving good speeds. Speed then falls to zero. This is followed by the client freezing, computer freezing and/or loss of internet connection.

Solutions:
1) This is a common problem with ZoneAlarm 5. Switching it off may not solve the problem. It is recommended that users switch back to version 4.5.
2) Norton Anti-virus sometimes tries to scan the chunks which make up the files you are downloading. Get yourself a decent anti-virus program!

5.2 Freezing torrents and/or 100% CPU usage

Make sure you are running the latest version of your favourite client, as many have now solved this bug.

-RaZ- has provided help for those who are still having problems:

You need to limit the number of peer connections to 60.


If you still need to ask, please:
-> Say clearly what the problem is
-> Say what client you are using
-> Say whether you are on SP1 or 2
-> The exact setup of your network/ how your computer is connected to the net
-> All the software you are running
-> What you have done so far to try and resolve the problem

by Malicious Intent http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=17671


Also see Slyck Bit Torrent Guide http://www.slyck.com/bt.php

BTW Sorry for being helpful to noobs :)

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[koalabear4]

4226 errors

seeders with no upload bandwidth

Its endless


Read the bajillion other BT threads before anyone else rehashes it all over again for the bajillionth and second time.




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If your so fucking busy, quit responding with answers that have no relevance to the question at hand. WANNABE!

[Krell]

Is this your new pathetic little mission, some delusional quest to discredit me from so far down the food chain, your little cry is drowned out by a mouse fart?

Get over it already, and read the fucking manual.


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[TwoLoud]

Got to love when the truth hurts people


Sorry I had to laugh at the wannabe part...lololol

[.:sp00ky:.]

If your so fucking busy, quit responding with answers that have no relevance to the question at hand. WANNABE!

I think telling him to read the other "slowBT" threads where he would find answers is quite relivent.


EDIT:omg you guys reply so fast ,I need to improve my typing speed. :s

[Krell]

I think telling him to read the other "slowBT" threads where he would find answers is quite relivent.

Yah im sure its MY fault, I didnt clarify as to WHICH threads to read, and paste the urls for them, or if I meant the first 350 BT threads, or the second 350 BT threads . . . .

Im not changing his diapers



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[Jawa Slayer]

Thanks for the replys guys. I checked out that 4226 error and I was having a few so fixed that, but I don't think that was the main error. I've tried loads of different clients and I'm using uTorrent today. If my ISP was limiting P2P would it only effect bit torent or would it effect all P2P programs because I just used limewire and downloaded at 210KB/s so thats working fine. It seems to be an exclusively bittorrent problem which only started a few days ago. I'm using the random port option on uTorrent, and this might be a silly question, but if it uses a random port each time how do I forward ports? It doesn't seem to be effected by this, still getting green, but i was just wondering?
At the moment i'm downloading a file with 5461 visible seeds (i'm connect to 7) and 8 visible peers (i'm connected to 0) and the download speed is between 8.00 and 10.00KB/s. :( I treid limiting the upload but no help and i'm connected to a WAN. Using XP SP2.

[bobhss]

Slow Bittorrent speeds?

Sometimes it just happens.

It's happening to me right now for one torrent in particular; all the other torrents I've used since starting this one have went as fast as usual (sufficeth to say I know what I'm doing).

So, sometimes torrents are going to be slow. Live with it.

XP SP1
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Port Triggering to open my port