Slow Torrent Downloading

[wolfway]

hello all,

as many i follow lost & prison break so every week i used to download all episodes. now it never really went VERY fast, but in 3 hours i usually had my episode. but recently i just can't download good no more. i get speeds about 4 kbps all the time, sometimes for a sec 10 kbps but then it inmediatly decreases again.

i'm using a router but have been using it for years so dnno if that could be the problem? i tried shutting down my firewall & windows firewall b ut no help.

sometimes theres 10 seeders and no leechers (except me) and i get 0 kbps download...

please anybody help? i'm already behind on 5 lost episodes and 1 prison break, and my "friend" who used to give me the episodes just decided he'dd say "nah i don't wanna give em to you anymore" friends...

[atoal]

I found my speeds to go faster if the upload speed set to no limit

[Elmoz]

your ISP might be blocking or throttled (slowed) the torrents.

try to turn on the encryptation on azureus or utorrent

[MetDream]

Here are some links that might be helpful:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/73686
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/bitt ... tports.htm

[Bert Jan]

Most likely you will have to open a port in your router... I have been trying to do this as well for online gaming and torrent downloading... but I couldnt figure it out since I seem to have a rare router... hehe...

but at http://portforward.com/english/routers/ ... rindex.htm
You can select your router... than select the program u try to use, and open a port...

As I said, my router wasnt in the list, and I didnt manage to solve it, but if your router is on the list u might have a good chance...

Also the first tip given is true..set your upload speed to as high as possible and then you might get a better speed as well. Works for me anyway...

[wolfway]

well i have a 2 gb upload limit each month so i can't just take max. last month i was on smallband (over the limit) because of downloading too long (4 kbps download so much upload when i finished) so now i just leave it on the minimum, which used to be no problem... i just don't get it what change lately

[Bert Jan]

well i have a 2 gb upload limit each month so i can't just take max. last month i was on smallband (over the limit) because of downloading too long (4 kbps download so much upload when i finished) so now i just leave it on the minimum, which used to be no problem... i just don't get it what change lately

Ah thats sucks yeah... it will be hard to set that on maximum then, and so it will be even harder to get fast downloads...u tried the port forwarding already?

[wolfway]

i searched the FAQ for my program (bittorrent) and they said to use automatic port forwarding (nl: automatische poorttoewijzing).

i got speeds of 21 kbps at first, but after a while they fall back to 0 again... boo

[MetDream]

This wont help your router problem but you can watch prison break on line without having to download the episodes: http://www.myspace.com/fox They only put up a few episodes at a time so you might be too far behind to catch up.

How are your ftp connections? If you are too far behind on prison break let me know. I will download the episodes that are not on the fox myspace site and put them up on my ftp for you.

[wolfway]

prison break isn't really a problem since some other people i know watch them and i can get them from there, and i'm trying to download the latest episode and it's going so-so.

the biggest problem is lost, of which i missed 5 episodes already hehe... (all episodes after the months break)

i can't watch fox since they only allow USA people to watch it