How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.

well Nazgul, although i did enjoy the long read, lol, i couldn't think of a straight solution for your problem. but i can comment on a few things. I don't think having the yellow smiley has anything to do with the tracker. if u forwarded the port being used by the BT client and got CLOSED or OPEN on the Shields Up test, u should get green smiley. i think thats all u need to get green smileys. do a shields up test again with the port being used by Azureus and make sure u get CLOSED or OPEN.
On the NAT test type-in, where pompted, the HashID belonging to the torrent so u dont get failed. if u did type the hash ID and still get failed than there may be a problem with ur connection to tracker.

thanks for letting me know what a T1 is. hey, its not that fast. i get 1.3Mbps download on bandwidth tests with bellsouth dsl, so its kinda close. roadrunner cable says its 3 times as fast as dsl. man i wish i had roadrunner!

 

Hey redscorpi, I see that you have quite a bit of experience with this bittorrent type stuff. So... I was wondering if you could help me out here. I haven't yet figured out how to open the ports on my computer yet. I use a Mac with the OS X system and I need a lot of help with my download speed. I'm only downloading at about 1 kb/s or less. I don't what exactly happened to my download speed, but it has been reduced to this pitiful speed. I'm not sure if you have had experience with OS X, but could you help me out a little here?

 

Hmm... I should probably tell you what my bittorrent client is... Well, I had gotten mine off of bittornado.com. I am about to try a newer version than the one I just had. I had the 3.4.2 version. I will be back to tell you if it helped out a little or not.

 

actually i've never had any experience at all with Macs or X OS or whatever. I couldn't tell you if what you have to do requires different steps. I would not think it's different because what you are going to have to deal with is your router (if you have any), modem, firewalls, which, i think, have nothing to do with your Operating System or computer type.
so what u and i need to know is: how are you connected to the internet? does your phone jack cable go directly to your computer or does it go to some other device?

 

Hmm... Let's see here... I use dsl to connect to the internet. It uses a small Westell modem. The phone service I use is Bellsouth. Hopefully that will help you. In the meantime, I'm gonna try to figure out how this Python system works. I've gotten stuck in the middle of this persons directions on this page. http://forums.degreez.net/viewtopic.php?t=4332
I have to figure out how to execute some sort of sudo BitTornado thing...

 

oh man, and i thought you were gonna make me think. thats the exact same stuff i got. go here, i explain how to do everything for the westell modem. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/89259 it's only the first page of this very same thread. its about the 7th or 8th response to this thread where i explain how to forward ports on westell modem.
After you do this, make sure ur BT client is using the same Listen Ports. to do this go to bittornado (assuming thats the BT client u said u were using) and click on "Pref", look at the right-hand corner (i think) and it should say something like "Listen Port Range" or some shit like that. Here u should have the option of entering any port range u want. Guess what u gonna do. thats right! enter the same port range u forwarded earlier, which is 6881 to 6883.
after that u should get a green light and way faster download speeds than 1KBs (assuming there is not difference in have a Mac or PC lol)

 

another thing, if u want to get even faster speeds, u gonna have to learn how to set the "Max Upload Rate" option in ur BT client to the right amount. i also said how to do this in this thread. It's in page 13, first post: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/13/89259
Follow directions for Step 1)

 

Hahaha! I will try that as soon as I get back to my Mac. At the moment I am using a school computer. Thank you for your help. I will tell you what happened later.

 

Ugh... I forgot what the ip address is for the westell. Do you know how I could find it? It
isn't 192.168.1.1 in case you were wondering.

 

are u trying to go the westell settings? just type "launchmodem" without the quotes on the address bar.

 

For some reason or another that doesn't seem to be working for me. Hehe... I seem to be
having a problem finding the ip address also... I had it written somewhere around my
computer, but I think the paper had been thrown away. That will be a somewhat of an
inconvenience for me.

 

hmm, well if macs use windows, (i really have no clue about macs lol) u can go to Start, Run, type "command". when u get a dos windows type "ipconfig". note the line that says "Default Gateway" and type the corresponding IP into an address bar to see if that takes u to the modem settings.
for me using "launchmodem" or that IP address work the same. they both take me to the same settings.

 

Well, we aren't getting anywhere are we. This mac doesn't have a run command and typing in 192.168.1.1 or "launchmodem" doesn't work either.

 

Hahaha! I'm making you think now aren't I? I'm sorry to have done this to you if you've been thinking too hard.

 

Hi folks. Just thought I'd mention this for you who have routers or not, and are wondering about download speeds..

First, I use Bittornado, not BitTorrent. Basics should be the same. gear router on a home network.. here are some settings and basics I have figured out and also after reading some about it.

With BitTorrent and a router, I think you have to set the ports that you port forward in your router to 6881 to 6889.

But with BitTornado - you pick'em it'll do it. I use a couple of ports in the 17000 range. Actually you could just set it to use one port, like 17125 if you wanted. Also if using Windows SP2 firewall in conjunction with the router, or even without a router, make sure you click the "exclude" command and make sure it is listed to exclude your torrent-getting program.

If you port forward like I do, forget about turning on UPnP. or is it UP&P? Especially if you use an old computer like a P3 & windows 98 se.. If you have a 2nd computer like I do on the network and use it to get torrents (good idea - don't tie up the main computer's CPU), you have to set it up to port forward a different port than the other machine - that's why BitTornado is good because you can set it to use any ports. Now, the previous netgear router I never did have to set up separate ports for the 2nd machine. This one I do - so, I can get torrents with either machine now. So - don't turn on UPnP in your router, nor in the torrent program if you port forward.. Maybe even if you are not behind a router and have set the firewall to excude your torrent program..

BitTornado has a yellow/green/red/blue light that comes on and means something - if you always have a yellow light - your router is blocking the ports somehow - or something is messed up. It should turn green after a few minutes of being connected.

Slow slow at 1st. up speed and down speed.. After a bit of time you hit a certain size and you begin sharing and up speed goes up and with that down speed too.. little by little increasing.

Set up speed to 80% of your capability - not 100%! If you have a 250 Kbps up speed capability, then set to 25 Kb/s (confusing, KB/s, or even KBps with a capital "B" is bytes - 8 bytes = a bit, so 25 KBps (25 kiloBYTES per second)or same thing is 25 KB/s, which = 25 x 8, or 200 Kbps (kiloBITS per second). If you set it higher than 80% of your Internet allotted speed, your download speed will suffer..

Some torrents are just plain faster than others - even though yes, the more seeds the better and the more peers the better up to a point - I don't know how or why differences.. The other day I got the 1st installment of the miniseries "Revelations". and I hit over 2 Mbps (2000 Kbps or 250 KB/s) for a lot of it. But right now I am getting an older series 1st episode, "The 4400", OK less peers at 17, but 13 seeds - should be good, but I am just now approaching 500 Kbps and that is all I think I am going to get.. it's been a while.. whoops, over 500 kbps now. BTW I recommend getting the freeware NetMeter (one word, not Net meter), get the "stable version" not the other, and it pops up whenever you are downloading or uploading, and reports your speed. You can set it up to tell you in Kbps or in KBps.. I prefer the older Kbps, ass in bits , like a dial up modem is 56 Kbps.

I have comcast cable and we now have 4000 down and 350 to 400 up.. used to be only 250 up and 3000 down.. great..

But even before with the 250 up/3000 down max. I could get 1 Mbps sometimes., and only 500 Kbps on other trackers..

Also the "max uploads" setting, I think the default "4" is good enough and setting it higher probably does not make any difference - I am not even sure what this does..
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hey its no prob. i can only help u with what i know, after that i can't help u further now can i.
why did u have to go on a buy a mac istead of a pc anyway huh lol jk.
Check this page out maybe it will help you:
http://sillysoft.net/hosting/routers_macip.php
You are looking for ur router's IP.
EDIT: if u get an Ad when u click on the link, click "Skip" on top-right hand corner.

 

biggermac. setting the "max upload" to the right number IS important and it does make a difference. if u set it too low u are not sharing enough, thus ur download speed will be limited. if u set it too high its like saying u are drowning your bandwitdh or something, so ur download speed will go down. so setting the "max upload" option on the BT client will ensure u get maximum download speed possible for ur internet connectoin type.
if you divide ur max upload by 8 this is really saying what is the greatest amount at which u will be able to upload. setting "max upload" option to that will be a little be too much, so u wont get the maximum download speeds at which u can download. u should really set it to number a little bit LOWER than that.

 

Hehe... Didn't work. Thank you for trying though. I'll come back here and say what I did if I ever figure it out. I was able to somehow get my download speed up to 10k/s, so that should help me out a little more. But, I'll be back in a few days probably and tell you if I figure out. Goodbye till then.

 

Thanks for the input on the "max uploads" setting.

I have messed around with it - in other words, watching the speed when changing it, and I couldn't see much going on different. Of course it could take 10 minutes for the effect to work, and I don't wait 10 minutes jusat watching..

I do know that if you have the BitTornado's "lower speed broadband" selected as default - all this does is pop into the field, which you can change, the download and max upload settings in the box itv is suggesting - so you can change it like I said. On this setting it "suggests" 4 max uploads and a 13 KB/s download. On the other hand if you select the high speed broadband, it suggests 40 KB/s download (320 kbps) and only 6 max uploads.. So in using my logic, it would seem to me then that 6 max uploads should be the limit(??)

Because this is suggesting 6 max with a 40 KB/s (320 Kbps) max uploadfor a 400 kbps max that your ISP tells you that you have (the seting to 80% thing being shown here)..

400 400 kbps is my new Comcast upload max, according to them. So I was just going by what the software was suggesting - I don't think most people have a 400 Kbps up speed capability.. Surely if 250 Kbps up, then maybe 5 max uploads, not 4...

Like I said, I am only going by what the software id suggesting.. And I was told a while back to leave it a 4 - but I also was told to both turn on UPnP and port forward at the same time, and I have discovered, at least for me and my Netgear router - and especially for my Windows 98 machine I sometimes use, that UPnP hurts not helps..

To be honest, I did not think "max uploads" has anything to do with who you are sharing with (uploading to). I was thinking it was in case you were running more than one torrent or something...

So I still don't know, even with your explanation. Can you tell me what exactly is going on with this setting? Are you saying hat I am only sharing part of the torrent (uploading to them) with only 4 others at a 4 setting?

Or is "max uploads" more like the "connections" setting in Bearshare Lite or like other P2P programs?

I want to ad in here that, at least with BitTornado, i would not use the "automatic" setting..
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wow, Craze, it didnt work? what do u mean? u weren't able to find the router's IP address using the instructions on the link? or u did find the router's Ip address but when u typed in the address bar it didn't take u anywhere?