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SMASH
April 26th, 2009, 04:49 PM
My torrents have been running at slower than slow speed lately and I'm really confused why... I could download a 700 mb file in about an hour or two before and now it's saying its gonna take days...

I have checked the seeder to peer ratio but it seems like the seeders aren't being used or something. Here's what I mean:

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/6719/50043036.jpg

Look at all the seeds and peers in the parenthesis, why can't I use any of them? I am running BitTorrent 6.1.1.
sdavis117
April 26th, 2009, 04:57 PM
Go to your speed options. You might have accidentally set the maximum connections to 0.
SMASH
April 26th, 2009, 04:59 PM
Nope, my Maximum Peers is set at 100.
Heathen
April 26th, 2009, 05:33 PM
You might have an evil ISP.
Syuusuke
April 26th, 2009, 05:42 PM
Is this the only torrent doing that to you?
Cortexian
April 26th, 2009, 05:51 PM
Remove force download and remove the torrent, then re-add it to the tracker. Also, use uTorrent and check your port forwarding.
dg
April 26th, 2009, 05:54 PM
Make sure that you are registered for the trackers that the torrent is being tracked by.
SMASH
April 26th, 2009, 06:04 PM
How do you register for a tracker?
Roostervier
April 26th, 2009, 06:15 PM
You don't use comcast, do you?
SMASH
April 26th, 2009, 06:26 PM
Yea, I do, but my DL speeds have always been much higher than what they are now.
Cortexian
April 26th, 2009, 06:55 PM
They're most likely throttling your speeds.
SMASH
April 26th, 2009, 07:19 PM
Well it just kicked back up to normal speeds so idk... that was weird.
LlamaMaster
April 26th, 2009, 07:50 PM
Still use uTorrent though. Much better.
Heathen
April 26th, 2009, 08:13 PM
uTorrent ftw, and also, yeah, comcast is one of those evil ISP's.
paladin
April 27th, 2009, 02:30 PM
You don't use comcast, do you?

I have comcast and I just had a dl going at 900kb/s
Cojafoji
April 27th, 2009, 03:25 PM
let me run down the check list, sorry if i'm being douchy.

enable traffic encryption.
release ports on your router.
open number of connections to 5000.
and disable dht. <- straight up can't stress that enough.

also forgot to add, that some client types are banned on certain trackers. UTorrent is a universally accepted client however, so you might want to should switch to that.
Cortexian
April 29th, 2009, 10:04 AM
also forgot to add, that some client types are banned on certain trackers. UTorrent is a universally accepted client however, so you might want to should switch to that.
Well, he said that he was using BitTorrent which is also widely accepted since it's basically the core torrenting app... I've only ever seen trackers block leach clients, which are clients that don't upload and force faster download speeds.
Cojafoji
April 29th, 2009, 12:22 PM
Well, he said that he was using BitTorrent which is also widely accepted since it's basically the core torrenting app... I've only ever seen trackers block leach clients, which are clients that don't upload and force faster download speeds.
most private trackers have bittorrent banned...
Cortexian
April 29th, 2009, 08:46 PM
most private trackers have bittorrent banned...
First time I've heard or seen that. You must use some obscure trackers.
Roostervier
April 29th, 2009, 09:23 PM
I have comcast and I just had a dl going at 900kb/s
Eh, that wasn't my point. From what I hear, you have to do all kinds of work-arounds to get torrents to work properly.

Something that explains it:
http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
Vicky
April 29th, 2009, 09:30 PM
Use uTorrent, don't forward ports, increase your upload speed (if possible).
Cojafoji
April 30th, 2009, 12:49 PM
First time I've heard or seen that. You must use some obscure trackers.
I use trackers that are just as paranoid as me...