bit torrent help

hello i just have a question about bit torrent. i was at my friends
house, SBC DSL, and maxed out his bandwidth on the download of knoppix.
I have now returned home, SSSnet Cable, and I'm only getting about
4-9 kB/s. I have set custom ports 45455-45655. This was the same at my
friends house too. I was just wondering what I can do at home to
increase this dismal speed.

 

|>hello i just have a question about bit torrent. i was at my friends
|>house, SBC DSL, and maxed out his bandwidth on the download of knoppix.
|> I have now returned home, SSSnet Cable, and I'm only getting about
|>4-9 kB/s. I have set custom ports 45455-45655. This was the same at my
|>friends house too. I was just wondering what I can do at home to
|>increase this dismal speed.

Have you tried Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ It's very
tweakable, I use in on the default port of 6881 and it works fine.

With torrents what you upload determines what you download. If you
throttle down the upload, you download speed will also decrease.

 

i use azureus and i have my upload set at 30 the max of my service and
still only get about 5-9 my max down speed is 64

 

I set mine on max/max and it sped up considerably.

 

Justin bashed at the keyboard and came up with:

depends on the speed of the person you are downloading from, how many
segments available, p2p is evil anyway.

 

also depends on how seeds many an there uploads speed is

 

Donald bashed at the keyboard and came up with:

Dont top post.

 

Top-posting is and always has been part and parcel of 24HSHD, as a service to
those who use text-to-speech readers. If you don't like it, then either don't
read the posts or killfile the poster, but don't try to "save" other posters
from what is an accepted practice in *this* newsgroup.

"It makes you look like a newbie. Or a troll."

 

Use ports over 20,000 for a start
also understand that some clients report the download rate in KB/s not
kb/s huge difference
kilobytes versus kilobits factor of 8

 

ok the download is still progressing but now at 8-12 KB/s avg. there is
now more seeders and less peers then there was at my friends house and
the swarm avg is 43 KB/s. Is it possible that my ISP has some sort of
way to throttle the connections since Bit Torrent is used by pirates as
much or more then the legal downloaders of Bit Torrents.