Router and slow Bit Torrent speeds. Please help!

Post by **^misantropia^** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:34 pm

Newer versions of BT use ports 6881 to 6999. You might want to open those and see if matters improve.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:56 pm

What's your upload speed? BT file sharing works by trading pieces you already have for pieces you don't. Tit-for-tat, so to speak.

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:17 pm

Try 20kb upload max, or 25.

You can use almost any port so I hear, I use 53657 in Azureus. The default ones are sometimes blacklisted by trackers/isp.

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:16 pm

^misantropia^ wrote:Newer versions of BT use ports 6881 to 6999. You might want to open those and see if matters improve.

Thats a lot of ports to open. Better to leave it at 10 IMO and configure the client to only use those ones.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:29 pm

What happens if you turn off the router's firewall? Apart from the influx of viruses and other crap, I mean.

Post by **axbaby** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:15 am

ya slow as fuck with a firewall enabled.

i turn off xp firewall and torrents fly,maybe another type of firewall has the same effect or it's the xp firewall to blame.

Post by **DiscoDave** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:10 pm

Just an addition :

Do you have azureus? If so the tracker light goes green when everything is ok, I would check on that. It will go yellow if it cant acess the specified ports etc...

You can also max out downloading on BT by only uploading at 5k/sec. Uploading too fast will saturate your download speeds.

We had a similar problem at our house with BT speeds. We gave the router a restart and it was fine.

Hope some of this is of help!

David

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:31 pm

might be worth updating the router firmware