30 hours to download one file?

[liverlips]

i'm using the basic bittorrent 4.2 client as recommended in the forum tutorial. i tried to download an episode of "lost" and it took 20 hours and still was at only 41%. i know it's my first download so it should be slow, but is that normal? help!

thanks,
liver

[agwolff]

man..it depends of the number of seeders...sometimes it's slow..

[horia]

yes maybe the seeders went to sleep and shut down their pcs :P

[manker]

Are you using a router, if so did you do the port forward thing?

If you are, you didn't forward them and are not sure how to, read some stuff on this site (http://www.portforward.com).

[bepatriotic]

thanks a lot

[dre145]

also whats ur isp?

[Matt Alone]

if you are using a public tracker it's easy for it to be slow as they usually have a very poor seeder to leecher ratio.

[tdamary]

well, it's not depend only because the ammount of the seeders... the place you get the torrent from is more important as I think...

in Some places I got lost in 40 mins...

in other as you said few days