SBC DSL and bittorrent = slow

[I6-4-eva]

okay I ave SBC DSL and using bittornado but i am only getting the "yellow light" and very slow download speeds. I have no firewall no nothing just modem and PC. Is there a way to speed things up? or get the green light?

 

[ExigeEvan]

I don't use any torrents but have you checked for spyware recentley?

 

[I6-4-eva]

I don't use any torrents but have you checked for spyware recentley?

no spyware can touch this i'm running peerguardian2/pestpatrol/firefox.

 

[Shannon]

The yellow light means the port range that BitTornado is using is blocked. Does your modem have a hardware firewall? If so, you'll need to find out what port(s) BitTornado is using and open the ports up.

 

[Solid Fro]

Yup, you have to open a port for BT.

I use port 16880 through 16889.

 

[Iceman]

I have SBC DSL and use BitComet and I have no problems. I can only get 35kb/s or so d/l speed, but it works. I think it should be higher though, because I can get 100 or above off websites.

 

[Solid Fro]

I'm getting over 400kb/s with 5 torrents open on cable.

You guys need to open your ports.

 

[Iceman]

How do you go about opening up the ports?

 

[Solid Fro]

http://portforward.com/

They have just about every router known to man listed. Need to know what port a program uses? They got it covered.

 

[maki]

It might not be your setup that is causing slow download speeds, maybe there just aren't many seeds, and they have a slow connection.....that sort of thing

 

[Super Jamie]

if the torrent is yellow, you need to open ports in your firewall (both software firewall and hardware if you have a router). try using non-standard ports in the setup of your BT client, some ISPs are now blocking default BT ports to save their traffic, just choose a random lot of 10 somewhere like 7000 or 18000 or whatever

set your max upload speed to a few kb/sec less than your connection's max upload. i find it works best when you can still *just* surf the web comfortably whilst max uploading

unless a torrent has over 10 seeds it's bound to be pretty slow, especially if there's like 2 or 3 seeds and about 150 people downloading like most popular stuff (playstation isos, divx movies, etc)

to test your setup, try downloading from a popular, well seeded torrent such as a linux iso, it should run at full speed up and down

 

[I6-4-eva]

Okay somehow I got the green light to show up! 👍 Time to download some friggen BMI videos.

 

[RobcioPL]

What is this Bittorenet you speak of? I have SBC DSL.........and i get 35K per download.

 

[maki]

Bittorrent (actually I prefer bittornado) is only the GREATEST DOWNLOAD UTILITY EVER!!!!11!!!one!!1

 

[Super Jamie]

http://www.google.com/search&q=bittorrent

 

[Solid Fro]

If you don't know what Bit Torrent is, then you should not know.

Seems like BT is turning into another Kazaa\Napster.

 

[RobcioPL]

http://www.google.com/search&q=bittorrent

Linky no worky.

 

[Super Jamie]

my bad, change the & to a ?
you should be able to figure out what i meant anyway