Extremely slow speeds with BitComet

**!1234567890!** · July 29th, 2006, 06:34 PM

Over the last two days, I've tried to download four torrent files. The last time I downloaded something on BitComet, I was getting speeds of around 40 kbps. This time, the best speed I got was an amazing 4 kbps, and on some occasions 0 (the 0 usually lasted for around 20 minutes, then it went to 2). I looked on several sites and got some tips. I forwarded ports, downloaded that patch that's supposed to help increase speed, and changed a couple of settings around. All this managed to bring my download speed to a maximum of 10 kbps, and only for 1 hour (for some reason, it reverted). I ran a virus scan and nothing came up, and nothing on this site helps. In fact, considering people here complain about going below 30 kbps, I'm pretty sure this is abnormal. Help?

By the way, I'm not that experienced with this sort of thing, so please don't respond with something like "enable this, diable that," please tell me HOW and WHERE to enable and disable something and then I can probably get it from there.

**Xtripit** · September 9th, 2006, 09:19 AM

Could be that your ISP has started traffic shaping. Try googleing them to see if this is happening (others will most likely have complained of the same thing if they have)

Are you using private or public trackers? (If you don't know then it's public)

Have you made any changes prior to this happening. Installing new software, Upgrading or ther likes ?

Do you use only DHT to connect ? or are you properly configured

Check this by looking at the peers that you connect to (if only local (L) then you are probably not. If you see Remote (R) then you are at least partly configured right)

I tried to be as simple as possible so hope I succeded in doing that

**Krell** · September 10th, 2006, 09:35 AM

Examine how many seeders there are. If there are few seeders, OR they are only uploading at .1k, stop wasting yours and everyone else time and move on to something else . . or wait 6 weeks for the file to complete.

To test a P2P app, find a FAST torrent, with a bajillion seeders and see if it performs for you. If you get 300k on a known good, and only 10k for a torrent with only 3 seeders, do the math.

You may also want to try another P2P client such as Utorrent.

Limit your upload speed on any P2P client, and keep reading the forums for answers.

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**infringer** · September 10th, 2006, 06:59 PM

BitComet .57 and Azerus 2.2.0.2 are widley spread old hacked versions this may have some bearing on things though most likely every version privately has a crack for achiving results of favor by some people who prefer to cheat.

Be sure that you aint cheating the system and also be sure to follow Krells advice to determine what exactly may be the problem.