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[mikenmike0001]

hey, i'm trying to get the paris hilton thing off of the bitorrent right now, and it's pretty popular so i know there's a lot of users trying to get it, and yeah, i know this uestions been asked before, but i never got a full answer....but anyways, i'm using shadow client and i have dsl, and normally can max out at 150kb/sec, but for some reason, even with this popularity in the file, i still have very limited transfer speeds.....i'm talking like 2-10kb/sec at most on average, and it's like that throughout the day, even when i try to reboot and stuff...and i've spent like over a day and a half straight trying to download this shit and i still only have like 190mb of it completed, normally downloading a 290 mb file from kazaa or something on average would take me 3 and a half hours, but this one, it's been well over 8 hours.....what's GOING ON!??!!? i always have this transfer speed limit problem when i try downloading other stuff from bitorrent too and it's pissin me off.....i set the "settings to dsl/cable fastline" too, because before that the default was at unlimited, and i wasn't getting any transfer at all........but yeah....it says 3 peers, 14 seeds..dont' know what tha tmeans, but can someone help me configure or try to solve this problem so that i can start to use bitorrent correctly like the rest of you people?

[vegasguy]

Hi,

Calm down, be paticene it all depends on the speeds of the other users are giving, On downloads I can get anywhere from 5kbs to 400kb/s, I too am grabbing the Paris video and I am getting 5-15kbs,

If youve been downloading that long, your speeds will be picking up, btw, how much are you uploading? Do you have any other torrent open?

[mikenmike0001]

nope, that's the only one that's opened...the thign is that this 2-15kb/sec happens to me on every freakin file that i try in the supernova links.i don't know why either, and when i check out screenshots of people from previous threads here, their downloading at like 77 kb/sec or something....well..i left the default settings of "dsl fast setting" so currently i have downloaded 22 mb and uploaded 21 mb.... so i guess that thing on the bottom of that window is true...you're upload is proportional to your download.....

[cwctv]

Do what I do use isdn with 8k and 2/3 up or the slow dsl 10-15 and 4/5 up,you will have to leave it awhile till the program settles down and stops looking for peers etc.In other words I play with it and don't just set it,yes you get behind with your upload but thats no problem just leave it on when finished.

Most of the time I can get 70-100 on the go and a steady 50+ all the time,and as said it will depend on the others in your group,I like too as you are sharing to others which are also SHARING not like KaZaa.

If I get very few in the group I cancel come off then 20 minutes later go back on this seem's to help aswell by looking for other peers/seeders.Before all this I too had your kind of speeds may be "cheating" but I find it works for me and I always upload my fair share at least the same as I get.

Worth a try I think if either works or doesn't 3/14 doesn't seem to be alot I normally get 20+.Using SHAD0W's.

[Switeck]

If you have a software firewall (even the one built into Win XP) or a router (which lets multiple computers share one internet connection) AND you don't configure them correctly, speeds WILL SUCK on BitTorrent.

So the question is:
Do you have a router or firewall -- and does BitTorrent tell you that it is firewalled?

[mikenmike0001]

it doesn't tell me that it's firewalled, but the thing is is that LIGHT IS ALWAYS FUCKIN YELLOW!!!!! it's never green, no matter how long i wait.........i actually was able to finish downloading the paris hilton video after like 22 hours of letting my computer on.....with that shadow client.....i dont' know why...i'm using windows 2000.......now what do i do?

[CPU1]

if its always yellow and u have a router forward them

if you have a firewall. just allow bt to use port 6881-6889 or whatever it uses

[Necrobrogdon]

aye, same here. I've never seen bt go over 10 kb per second. Is there a guide somewhere that tells you what to do to optimise your sytem for bt?

[cwctv]

Well I'am downing Blackball at 125 at this very moment.

[Switeck]

Originally posted by mikenmike0001@15 February 2004 - 23:12
it doesn't tell me that it's firewalled, but the thing is is that LIGHT IS ALWAYS FUCKIN YELLOW!!!!! it's never green, no matter how long i wait.........i actually was able to finish downloading the paris hilton video after like 22 hours of letting my computer on.....with that shadow client.....i dont' know why...i'm using windows 2000.......now what do i do?

That yellow light means it's almost certainly firewalled.

You MUST solve that to get better download speeds.
What firewall/s and antivirus software do you have running and are you on a router?

Even many antivirus programs now include software firewalls which can seriously cripple download+upload speeds on programs like BitTorrent. You have to ALLOW (nearly, if possible) full access for BitTorrent through them.

And port-forwarding for routers is a must. Try DMZ zone as a last resort to see if that helps.