Bittorent Speed problems

[Ajayrious]

Hi, I am on NTL's 2mb service and for the last week or so when trying to download using bit-torrent i have been unable to get above 3kb/s usually 1kb/s .

A bit-tiorrent tracker says that im not connectable,. and in the FAQ lists a firewal as a possible reason for this, however i do not use one except for the windows one which has never stopped me downloading using bit-torrent before.

Finally my bit-torrent program says that i am using a proxy, which to my knowledge i am not, the tab in internet explorer for proxy conenctions is completely empty.

I have tried 3 different bit-torrent programs and this happens on all of them, and it doesnt matter what torrent or how many seeders it has, i still cannot get a good speed.

CAn anyone help ?

[maureenscasa]

Are you trying different torrents or the same one.Try one with lots of peers and seeds.Are you uploading ok?.

[Ajayrious]

im using 2 seperate torrents, from 2 seperate trackers at the moment, both fail to surpass 3kb/s , it is the same on upload ..

i am also using randomised ports

[ian@huth]

NTL use transparent caches and route most customers through these. They do not show up in the internet explorer cache settings unless you specify a different one to your default. Click on the "connection" tab at the top of this page and it will tell you if you are being routed through one.

[grubbymitts]

torrents are, alas, always going to have speed problems - it is the nature of the thing. A little hint is to find your IP address (using the connection link above should do it) and then find the preferences and enter the IP in the "bind my IP" box or something similar. That used to work for me.

Also only do one torrent at a time and set your upload speed to 10k/s.

I don't use torrents anymore, but hope that helps.

And really, get yourself a decent firewall - the one that comes with windows isn't that great and, using torrents, you are advertising your IP address to all and sundry who look at the tracker and inviting hundreds of people you don't know onto your machine.

[Ajayrious]

Your Proxy IP address 62.255.32.xx This is a Birmingham Proxy Server
it says the above when i clicked the connection button up there.. if that helps

[homealone]

may be unrelated, but i connect to NTL through a router - torrents have always been slow, like 10KB/s, port forwarding was always a pain due to the random hits - tonight I enabled the uPnP forwarding function with bittorrent 4.4.1 - and I'm getting 125KB/s

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by ian@huth

NTL use transparent caches and route most customers through these. They do not show up in the internet explorer cache settings unless you specify a different one to your default. Click on the "connection" tab at the top of this page and it will tell you if you are being routed through one.

These caches only route traffic on port 80, they do not affect Bittorrent traffic unless a person specifically tries to bounce their BT connections off a webcache on port 8080.

Ignore above it doesn't apply.

The Windows firewall isn't bad at all, the XP Service Pack 2 firewall is every bit as good as the likes of Zonealarm, etc, better IMHO as it's more compatible with the operating system. Advertising IP isn't a major issue people are constantly scanning IP ranges anyway.

1) Don't shove connections through port 8080 (you'll hit the webcache , ports 135 - 137, 445 (you'll hit a port block to stop worm / virus traffic).
2) Are you in Ashford, Kent?
3) What does the tracker report your IP address to be?

[nemesis01]

I have found with .torrents it all depends on where you get them, public trackers=bad, private trackers=good. is your upload speed capped? some of the newer clients, or maybe it's just the trackers throttle your download speed if your upload speed is not set to a certain limit. i use utorrent and unless i set to at least 8k my download speed dips remarkably.

[hammered]

What application are you using? Most sites now are banning certain applications as some can dupe the ratio tracking on the torrent websites.

[Mick Fisher]

Unless you have made suitable configurations to it, the wndows firewall will allow you to connect out but others cannot connect in. Therefore you will get NO REMOTE connections and your speed will always be low.

There are such things as Port 80 trackers, they are rare but they do exist. The transparent proxies we are all forced to use will stop REMOTE connections on Torrents using a Port 80 tracker. Once again with only local connections your speed will be rediculously low. If this is the case, unless you can find the same torrent on a non port 80 tracker you will just have to grin and bear it or give up.

[Chrysalis]

'number' of people downloading 'of' you not the upload 'speed' affects download performance.

[Rob]

As far as I can see there is no connection here with your ntl service and your bittorrent speeds. Moving to Internet