So Slow That This Is Absurd

[gildan2020]

hi, i'm using bittornado to download the latest splinter cell: pandora tomorrow, at a very very slow rate.

in suprnova, there's about 700 seeds with another 8000+ downloaders
but why am i getting only 1 seed and 8 downloaders connected to me? worse of all, this has been going on for 7 hours today (and 6 hours yesterday)

i'm firewalled but i know which port to allow (the bt light is green). this seems to only happen with this game, i dun face that kind of prob before. anyone knows wat's going on?

thx

[meth21]

Did you try using a different torrent program to d/l with? I've been gettin good results with Azureus.

[gildan2020]

Originally posted by meth21@28 March 2004 - 13:44
Did you try using a different torrent program to d/l with? I've been gettin good results with Azureus.
i'm gonna try that tonight...i'll let u know the results soon

thx

[muchspl2]

it has nothing to do with the client
with seed/peer ratio what do you expect, >1 seed per 100 if your green in bittorrando just leave it alone it it will speed up
if your yellow, then open your ports in your router
6881 to 6889

[gildan2020]

ok, the client doesn't make much difference

muchspl2, so ur saying that having so many peers over seeds is the reason that i connect to so little ppl? but shouldn't i be getting a lot of connections to peers as well and most of their download progress is above 10%. they still have to contribute...

[DanB]

Have you tried changing your uplaod settings? Sometimes this helps as having it too high means your flooding your connection :)

[gildan2020]

Originally posted by danb@28 March 2004 - 23:40
Have you tried changing your uplaod settings? Sometimes this helps as having it too high means your flooding your connection :)
i put it into dsl settings, tried decreasing upload speed as well
i even tried 56k settings...still no change :(