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I'm wondering if I'm the only one who has really shitty download speeds. I mean, if I ever hit 20kp/s I'm happy. Browsing my ISP's forums, they seem to have put some kind of speed limit on Torrents -- is this bypassable at all do you know? But then, people u/l from me at 20kp/s+ all the time, while I am right now d/l a very popular Simpsons torrent at the fucking shit speed of 4kp/s. |
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it's the same for me. that's why i never use shitty torrents. don't know how the thing got so popular anyways. |
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I have to say that I've found things on Torrents that I could never find on SLSK.. like episodes of the original Twilight Zone and complete series of Knightmare :] Still, sucks -- I might upgrade my package for another £7 per month -- apparently there is no speed restrictions in place. |
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what site do you use? |
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Three sites I use: thepiratebay.org uknova.com torrentreactor.net |
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hehe where i download my torrents i use to hit 200 kbs at avreage and 800 kbs at most |
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bitnova.org - see if that's any good |
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I've said this many times now, but the only torrent site worth using is It searches through the best known torrent sites and gives the widest range of results. |
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How embarrasing, i spelt it wrong. |
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damn. you saw your error too quickly |
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The Thread of Mistakes |
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i think www.filelist.org is good but you most registrate you on it |
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Yeah I use that one sometimes but it never seems to come up with anything special. |
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find a place where they keep a upload ratio and it should go faster |
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Does this mean that the more I've uploaded the faster my speed will be? Because I've uploaded 7.05 gig of a torrent that is a little over 2 gigs -- that was from pirate bay. |
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hehe no you most have a good upload ratio lets say you most try to upload as much as you download so if you downaload a 2 gb file you should try to upload as much as posible.and if your total ratio is shitty you will be kicked out of the site. which is good because everyone will try to share as much as possible so the more seeders the faster it goes |
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Well I always keep my torrents active for a couple of weeks after I've finished getting them -- and since I get them so fucking slowly, I always u/l more than I d/l |
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its the other way around for me i have more truoble to keep the upload ratio then the download ratio |
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That's because you actually have a good d/l speed ! |
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maybe i have but you cant have as low as 4kb/s down if you can upload 20kb/s i think.is your max 20 kb download speed |
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Sometimes I get less than 20, but the other day I got over 70kbps for JFK Reloaded. |
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i used to have the same problem.. after some research, i discovered the solution was quite simple. the reason it's slow is because you're behind a firewall/router. forward the appropriate ports, and you will max out your connection's downstream no problem... |
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Forwarded the ports and not any improvement as yet. |
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two things, first one a big improvement, second one icing on the cake 1) the port shit. if it doesn't work, maybe you didn't forward enough ports, or just plain wrong ones; many new bittorrent clients use different port ranges. azureus gives you a yellow smiley on all torrents if it can't connect fully; I've seen others do the same. Best option is to enable upnp, which lets the client and router communicate and configure the ports on the fly 2) get a better client. I swear by rtorrent, and get more than 2x the speeds as with any other client.. |
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i've been using BitLord which has a great interface for me. I forwarded about 7 ports... how do I enable upnp? |
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i find azureus works nicely. U could try limiting your upload speed to 5 or 10kbps. |
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http://methlabs.org/projects/peerguardian-2-windows/ This is peerguardian it blocks IP's and protects your privacy on p2p. Particularly handy with ISP's handing out data to gov/movie agencies. |
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I'm getting 70kb/s right now on a download right now, seems to be the ceiling for me. Anybody know if the ''official'' BT client is any good? I've used it for a long time, had no obvious need for anything else but maybe the grass is greener on the other side? |
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if the seeders are plentiful and good I go to somewhere between 300 and 400kb/s. just yesterday I was downloading the last episode of "absolute power" through a UKNova-torrent and I got the whole thing in about 20 minutes. these are exceptions though. |
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Torrent d/l's are mad. When we're dealing with a good seeded torrent I can reach sometimes 30/50kb/s on ABC (the record here is 92) but I'm usually at 10<. Yesterday I've d/l Family Guy, all the time at 5kb/s (even though it's very popular). The deciding factor might be that I'm behind a NAT. People who have "external" IP's will always have better results. The same with slsk and all p2p's. |
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I also use Azureus because this program is great, there is a symbol in front of the torrent that indicates if the torrent is working/connected well. Most of the time it's a port problem, every torrent site has it's own range of ports. Azureus has an option to scan the ports, I don't know about other. The only bad thing about Azureus is that it eats ram. I'm at a Dutch torrentsite and depending on the availability I have an average speed of about 60kb. If I choose a torrent that is on the tracker for a few weeks then the speed goes upto 500kb because there are a lot seeders and no leechers. This is very cool but it's bad for my ratio ;) |
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my isp caps torrent downloads, i can bypass this by downloading on port 80, as they cant block this port. I use Bitcomet. |
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is there a way for me to find out if there any ports my ISP cannot block ? |
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like i said, port 80. I believe its used for surfing http pages therefore wont be blocked cos they cant deny you that service. So if your using bitcomet, goto options or preferences, look for listening port and type in 80 then restart it. Worked for me when i was only getting 4 kb/s, it then went back up to 60kb/s max. I dont know what other ports you could try or if you can find out which ones cant be blocked. But give 80 a go. upnp is enabled somewhere in the options of most p2p programs. |
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you suck |
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that was my brother |
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Yeah port80 was already forwarded -- I done it a month and a half ago or so -- so I just changed my port on BitLord to 80. Thanks for the tip, Osiris. |
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My ISP also reduces the speed of non port 80 requests till after midnight so I may try this port 80 routing tip.... |
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I had Peer Guardian but don't use it because it kept timing out my webpages. |
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it also blocks some pages (which is especially funny when it blocks torrentsites). you can switch it off for the periods of time when it's in the way. or you can tell Peerguardian that certain sites should be allowed. |
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You need to "Allow HTTP" if you want to use the web while running Peer Guardian. Also, if the torrents you are trying to download has many seeders and is still slow, then it could be a firewall issue if you are behind a router or using a student LAN. |
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