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Torrent (Azureus) Questions

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cmp1223

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Recently switched to Azureus after Bittornado, had a few questions.

1) Has anybody seen a significant improvement in DL speeds by switching ports and/or tweeking router or network settings?

2)What is your average DL speed? I'm lucky to get a steady 50kbps per file on Comcast Cable

3) Many video files include a sample. Can this be accessed before the download it complete (to "sample" it) Does it download itself first for this purpose?

4) Anyone esle experience computer slow downs when the prog is open? It is probably my low ram (256)

Thanks
-Chris
 
Originally posted by: cmp1223
Recently switched to Azureus after Bittornado, had a few questions.

1) Has anybody seen a significant improvement in DL speeds by switching ports and/or tweeking router or network settings?

2)What is your average DL speed? I'm lucky to get a steady 50kbps per file on Comcast Cable

3) Many bootleg video files include a sample. Can this be accessed before the download it complete (to "sample" it) Does it download itself first for this purpose?

4) Anyone esle experience computer slow downs when the prog is open? It is probably my low ram (256)

Thanks
-Chris
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Fixed point 3 for you.

- M4H
 
Gt, if this needs to be moved, my mistake, sorry. M4H, samples are included in many other typed of legal torrents. But please, if anyone can answer the questions, please do.
 
2) Average is hard to say, some less popular torrents go slowishly, rare that I see under 40-50kBps on any though. Most max out my 1.5mbit download bandwidth (just the single torrent), or at least come close.
3) don't think so
4) 256mb ram is barely enough to merely run windows xp without even having any programs open. 512 is the bare minimum for non-exasperatingly slow performance, and you'll see significant gains in mere windows performance, not to mention many games, with a gb. BT clients don't skimp when putting memory on their plate either, some use 100-200mb ram, depending on the client and how many open torrents you have.

If you haven't done it, forward port 6881 and maybe 6882 as well.

Wrong forum btw
 
Originally posted by: cmp1223
Recently switched to Azureus after Bittornado, had a few questions.

1) Has anybody seen a significant improvement in DL speeds by switching ports and/or tweeking router or network settings?

2)What is your average DL speed? I'm lucky to get a steady 50kbps per file on Comcast Cable

3) Many video files include a sample. Can this be accessed before the download it complete (to "sample" it) Does it download itself first for this purpose?

4) Anyone esle experience computer slow downs when the prog is open? It is probably my low ram (256)

Thanks
-Chris
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1. opening up the ports shoudl help with speed. otherwise i dont know

2. anywhere from 20kb/sec to 200kb/sec. it largely depends on the torrent

3. you can go into the file list for the torrent and set the sample file to be higher priority. whehter it'll finish downloading first will depend on how available that file is relative to the rest of the torrent.

4. yes it eats a lot of ram. and i have 512mb
 
Originally posted by: cmp1223
Gt, if this needs to be moved, my mistake, sorry. M4H, samples are included in many other typed of legal torrents. But please, if anyone can answer the questions, please do.
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Long as you're legal, cool. 🙂

1) Yes. Select some non-default ports (not 6881-6999) and open them.

2) Depends on the source. I've peaked at 670KB/s downstream.

3) Double-click your torrent, go to the "Files" tab, right-click desired file, set Priority to High.

4) Did you install the latest J2RE first? Also, I'd notice slowness under XP with 256MB even when not using Azureus. 😛

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: dighn
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire


1) Yes. Select some non-default ports (not 6881-6999) and open them.

- M4H
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are you saying that you've improved speed by doing this?
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Mostly the selecting non-default ports. Many ISPs, including mine, throttle certain ports because they carry a particular type of traffic.

- M4H
 
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