hit dead end with torrents!!

emmet14 · 03-02-2008 4:48pm #1

dont know where this should go but this is the best place i could see. i have one of the newer versions of the eircom netopia routers its a silver one. i am trying to use azureus and utorrent. i can get a green light but terrible speeds reaching no more than 20kb/s. i have done all the port fowarding and switched firewall to low and i still get really bad speeds. does anyone have any ideas how to get them working??

Creamy Goodness · 03-02-2008 4:51pm

are there enough seeds?

Krieg · 03-02-2008 4:52pm

*Sigh*
Dont tell me eircom are jumping on this 'torrent throttling' fad as well

mang87 · 03-02-2008 4:53pm

Torrents all depend on the trackers and the amount of people uploading. If its not a private torrent site I wouldn't expect to see any decent speeds.

DePurpereWolf · 03-02-2008 4:59pm

Did you allow for port-forwarding on your router for the torrent client?
Did you allow MS firewall to not block traffic from your bittorrent?

I had a similar problem, what I did to fix it I can't really remember, but I did an internet search on port-forwarding and slow speeds w/ bitcomet and the fix was quick and easy.

degsie · 03-02-2008 5:10pm

utorrent has an inbuilt test for port checking, run it and see what results u get.

Moriarty · 03-02-2008 9:22pm

Moved to Nets/Comms.

Dotfuscator · 04-02-2008 4:11pm

they still work fine, whatever you're downloadin obviously has a low seeds/leechers ratio

denashpot · 04-02-2008 4:12pm

i agree with the man above.

emmet14 · 04-02-2008 6:01pm

no its not seeds problem.... i am conected to a bout 30 seeds and 50 peers... i have put off windows firewall and forwarded the ports as shown on port forward.com... also says on utorrent the port 64541 is o.k

phill106 · 05-02-2008 7:57pm

depending on program, some torrent programs give you the option to encrypt the data, if yours has the option, tick the box, and set your torrent port as 80. To the isps, looks like web surfing then!

Dotfuscator · 13-02-2008 6:18pm

the seeds you're downloadin off have prob just limited their upload speed, what ya need is to connect to some guy in scandinavia who uploads at 200 kb/s

RoyalMarine · 13-02-2008 7:17pm

what connection do you have? it also depends on how much bandwidth you have.

i had eircom 2mb in my parents house and would barely get 130 - 150kb/s.

now ive got chorus and have a 6mb line and i max out at about 500 - 600kb/s

kaizersoze · 13-02-2008 10:08pm

You also need to change the firewall on the Netopia to either low or off.

FWIW, I've never known Eircom to throttle anything including torrents.

emmet14 · 22-02-2008 7:11pm

a talked to someone about it and they said my speeds were about right. it slowly builds itself up to about 70kb/s and then falls to about 25 and starts over! i thought i would get about a 100kb/s on a 1mb connection. one last thing about azureus does the tcp port and udp port have to be the same or can they be different

hit dead end with torrents!!

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