BitTorrent slooooooowwwww

[SSSnail]

My ratio is > 1.1, why is it my download speed is so slow? People a taking from me 100x faster than I can download from anyone, and even though I can see a bunch of peers with 100% completion, why can't I download from them?

I set everything I could as open as I can, no avail. Any ideas?

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
My ratio is > 1.1, why is it my download speed is so slow? People a taking from me 100x faster than I can download from anyone, and even though I can see a bunch of peers with 100% completion, why can't I download from them?

I set everything I could as open as I can, no avail. Any ideas?

What are you trying to download? You don't have to be specific, but are they large files?

There are reports coming up of ISPs starting to filter out torrent content and limiting the bandwidth users have when attempting to download files using torrents. It is also possible to hit a 'wall' for example, exceeding a certain amount of bandwidth causing the ISP to limit your downloads for a certain amount of time. Just a thought.

What ISP?

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64

Originally posted by: SSSnail
My ratio is > 1.1, why is it my download speed is so slow? People a taking from me 100x faster than I can download from anyone, and even though I can see a bunch of peers with 100% completion, why can't I download from them?

I set everything I could as open as I can, no avail. Any ideas?

What are you trying to download? You don't have to be specific, but are they large files?

There are reports coming up of ISPs starting to filter out torrent content and limiting the bandwidth users have when attempting to download files using torrents. It is also possible to hit a 'wall' for example, exceeding a certain amount of bandwidth causing the ISP to limit your downloads for a certain amount of time. Just a thought.

What ISP?

Time Warner for ISP. Traffic is encrypted and ports randomized so ISP won't be able to filter it, the files are typically 700MB and have a bunch of seedings. But, all the people I pull files from are just typically 5-10 kB/s, which is pitiful.

I don't download a lot, so I can't possibly be exceeding any limits they may impose; besides, I personally think that if they have a limit it would be pretty crappy of them. After all, I pay monthly for a certain bandwidth allocation and never signed any thing that would limit my usage. If they want to limit my usage, they should have put that in a contract then legally then can do whatever they want.

Anyways, I tried increasing, decreasing seedings, connections, etc... nothing help.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What program do you use to download? Some programs aren't good with that.

 

[jonmcc33]

I download 4.3GB torrent files all the time. Started one yesterday and got it in 5 hours or so. I use uTorrent and my ISP is Embarq.

 

[0roo0roo]

do you set your max download/upload speed at 90% of your max bandwidth so you don't choke your connection?
some public torrents are slow.
try to get a private torrent or well seeded torrent, those usually go max speed since the sites have mandatory ratios. if those work at top speed than its not the isp but the specific swarm just sucking.

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Time Warner for ISP. Traffic is encrypted and ports randomized so ISP won't be able to filter it

I don't know if TW is using traffic shaping or not but don't assume that because you use protocol encryption and a random port, that the ISP can't throttle your torrent traffic. Protocol encryption isn't effective in newer methods that ISPs use.

 

[Quiksilver]

Do you have all the ports forwarded properly? Are you connected to a decent tracker? Do you have traffic encryption on? What bit torrent client do you use? Are you using anything like peer guardian 2? Does your ISP throttle bandwidth?( http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs )

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: QuiksilverX1
Do you have all the ports forwarded properly? Are you connected to a decent tracker? Do you have traffic encryption on? What bit torrent client do you use? Are you using anything like peer guardian 2? Does your ISP throttle bandwidth?( http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs )

He just said he used Time Warner. That is not on the list of "bad ISPs" so why would you post it?

 

[Quiksilver]

I didn't see he had Time Warner ISP and even If I did see it I would have still posted it as it is a decent list and can be helpful to others.
Another thing most people using Peer Guardian 2 will black list Time Warner IP addresses, which could be linked to his slow speeds, the only thing he could do for that would be change ISP's really.

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: QuiksilverX1
I didn't see he had Time Warner ISP and even If I did see it I would have still posted it as it is a decent list and can be helpful to others.
Another thing most people using Peer Guardian 2 will black list Time Warner IP addresses, which could be linked to his slow speeds, the only thing he could do for that would be change ISP's really.

That's true. Quite a helpful idea.

 

[SSSnail]

Thanks guys, I have no idea what they did, but seems that I have to restart my router to get a decent speed. And when it slows down, I would just have to reboot the router. Didn't need to do port forwarding or any of that.

 

[Quiksilver]

For bit torrent to run optimumally (at least for me) I needed to forward the port that my bit torrent client uses, enable traffic encryption, set my download speed to 600Kb/s limit, set my upload speed to 20Kb/s limit, and use Peer Guardian 2.

So you may want to give that a try or at least experiment with it.

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: QuiksilverX1
For bit torrent to run optimumally (at least for me) I needed to forward the port that my bit torrent client uses, enable traffic encryption, set my download speed to 600Kb/s limit, set my upload speed to 20Kb/s limit, and use Peer Guardian 2.

So you may want to give that a try or at least experiment with it.

I didn't need to do any of that. uTorrent worked from first install. I didn't even need to forward any ports. I purposely control the upload speeds though so I don't use it all up for web browsing or gaming.

 

[Quiksilver]

I have a router, I'm firewalled if I don't forward the ports.

 

[Gerbil333]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Thanks guys, I have no idea what they did, but seems that I have to restart my router to get a decent speed. And when it slows down, I would just have to reboot the router. Didn't need to do port forwarding or any of that.

Ah, what router are you using? If it supports DD-WRT, install that and adjust the Maximum Active IP and associated timeout settings. Whatever router you're using is filling up its maximum number of available IPs, then failing to clear them out to make room for new peers.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: Gerbil333

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Thanks guys, I have no idea what they did, but seems that I have to restart my router to get a decent speed. And when it slows down, I would just have to reboot the router. Didn't need to do port forwarding or any of that.

Ah, what router are you using? If it supports DD-WRT, install that and adjust the Maximum Active IP and associated timeout settings. Whatever router you're using is filling up its maximum number of available IPs, then failing to clear them out to make room for new peers.

Linksys WRT54G, and I think I'll try what you said, probably was a problem with the router.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea some routers are poor at torrent.
ddwrt does solve some of the linksys g's failings.
limit ports in management tab to 1024, tcp/udp timeouts to 128
theres also scheduled router reboot and qos settings