Slow torrent speeds

I mentioned this a recent journal entry but seeing as noone could help me, then I guess I'm going to have to ask.

Here's my problem. My torrent download speeds as ridicoulsy slow. At the moment I have 5Kb/s download speed. Whereas someone else that I have managed to persuade to download the same torrent is getting something nearer to 70Kb/s. What is the deal with this? They are using the same program as me as well.

I have tried just about all the torrent programs Bittorrent, BitComet, BitLord, Utorrent, Uzureus. You name it I tried it. I always get the same crappy speeds, except for in the small hours of the morning when I can get anything between 10Kb/s and 120 Kb/s download speed. I know that I could leave my machine on over night, but due to the amount of noise it makes that really isn't an option.

I have opened the ports on my firewall for the torrent programs, but still get the slow speeds. As for my Internet, I have 8meg DSL. So why isn't this liking me?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

How do I change my settings for my modem? I've got a Sagem F@st 800 E4. I don't know where to look for the settings for it. And just how do I go about changing my IP address.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by packrat

If you are connected straight to your modem, then get a router to mediate between your computer and your modem. This can be important because that specialty hardware does a good job of filtering out junk connections, various hack attacks, and limits the number of connections that can be made to your computer. (this is a good thing because if there are too many concurrent connections being made to your computer, your network card can be flooded, and won't be able to handle all the traffic, thus greatly diminishing your download potential)

EDIT:Upon reading your journal entry highlighting your problem ( I guess I should have read that first), it is my professional opinion that there really is nothing you can do to fix this problem. You are just going to have to learn to deal with the limitations placed on your bandwidth, unless you want to switch to another ISP, which is really your only other option.

Would connecting my modem through a router make any difference, or would I just be throwing my money away? I found this on my ISP's website. Is this true?

Quote:

Ethernet routers tend to perform better USB so it may be beneficial to upgrade to a router.

That site also mentioned that my speeds will be slower in the evenings. This is true for my torrent downloads, but as for my direct downloads these don't seem to be affected at all, in fact the speeds seem to be a little faster in the evening that during the day or in the small hours of the morning.

Further to this thread I went and got myself a new firewall. I now have Comodo (sounded good), but I'm having trouble with opening ports on it. Well, it's either this one or my Windows Firewall, which isn't even being used.


This is a image of my connection in UTorrent. I have opened the ports in both Comodo, and Windows Firewall and allowed the program access to the internet, but I am still getting the little yellow triangle. And also when I check if the port is opened or not, I get an error message saying that it isn't. Any ideas?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by packrat

If you are connected straight to your modem, then get a router to mediate between your computer and your modem. This can be important because that specialty hardware does a good job of filtering out junk connections, various hack attacks, and limits the number of connections that can be made to your computer. (this is a good thing because if there are too many concurrent connections being made to your computer, your network card can be flooded, and won't be able to handle all the traffic, thus greatly diminishing your download potential)

So a router would allow me to have more control over what can and cannot get access to my PC from the Internet? I just what to be 100% sure about routers before I go out and get one.

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Since you appear to be hardwired to your network

Sorry for the simplicity of my question, but what does this mean exactly? I'm not all that good when it comes to PC terminology.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Thanks for all the help packrat. I really appreciate it. I think that I will go and get myself a router if it means that it is going to make things easier and more convenient for myself. It also means that I will be able to connect up extra PC's/ consoles through the connection as well, which would be good.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by evilboris

- If you are running Windows XP SP2, it limits your maximum halfopen connections to ten. This was done as an attempt to make worms and other kinds of virii to spread slower (less open connections = less traffic). In the long run, this can cause a huge problem if you have many applications connecting to the net at once. There's a patcher that can edit the number of possible connections though, google for EvID4226Patch223d-en.zip. Since Bittorrent is based on connections happening en masse, having more halfopen connections will absolutely improve your speeds.

This really does work. I've only got two torrents running each with one peer each at the minute and I'm getting between 10Kb/s and 20Kb/s for each torrent. I hope more peers/ seeds connect so that my speeds get even faster. Thanks alot for that evilboris.

Just off to install ZoneAlarm again, Comodo wouldn't let me have the port open so I'm ditching it.

And also, what does this mean?



What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Okay. I'm getting okay-ish speeds now. Between 10Kb/s - 20Kb/s. Not lightning fast, but I can make do for now. But I have another problem. I've gotten rid of Comodo firewall as it was affecting my speeds and reducing them right down to less than 1Kb/s. I want to re-install ZoneAlarm firewall as this allowed me decent speeds, but I keep getting this error message when I try to re-install it.



I have uninstalled ZonAlarm, and tried several different sites to download the installer file from but I keep getting that message. At the moment I've having to go with Comodo as I don't like Windows Firewall. Can someone tell where I'm going wrong.

FELIPE NO

Thank you Ridan Krad. That worked. Took some finding but I've managed to get it up and running again.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?