Quake3World

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

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.

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.

^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.

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

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.

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

might be worth updating the router firmware