Azureus Help

**scar1** · March 15th, 2006, 07:21 AM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 07:35 AM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 07:59 AM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 09:45 AM

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

**ccc1005** · March 15th, 2006, 09:50 AM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 11:33 AM

I have comcast internet. I will try uTorrent.

**scar1** · March 15th, 2006, 11:46 AM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 12:25 PM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 12:33 PM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 01:41 PM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 03:30 PM

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** · March 15th, 2006, 09:21 PM

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

**lifehacker** · March 16th, 2006, 05:28 AM

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

**cjules13** · March 16th, 2006, 06:03 AM

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** · March 16th, 2006, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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.