Bittorrent-Followed all the rules but still have terrible speeds

zgall1 · Post by **zgall1** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:02 am

Can someone explain these two pictures to me, specifically why my downloading speeds are so terrible even though there are many seeds and peers (I'm assuming I am not connected to most of them since the numbers are in brackets) and also why I have a speed near zero when the average swarm speed is so high?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:07 am

I would assume that its becasue your connected to only a few of the seeds, liek the numbers outside of the "brackets" and that their upload is limited so its not all wasted on BT, or that tons of people are dling from them.

zgall1 · Post by **zgall1** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:16 am

What determines which seeds can be connected to? Why are there so many seeds and so few that can be connected to?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:11 pm

zgall1 wrote:What determines which seeds can be connected to? Why are there so many seeds and so few that can be connected to?

Maybe they are offline?

I have no idea, I'm not very BT savy, sorry.

buckifan · Post by **buckifan** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:08 pm

What OS are you using?

zgall1 · Post by **zgall1** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:16 pm

I'm using Mac OS 10.4.7

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:52 am

If I didn't say it before.. Welcome to Speedguide

On Bit Torrent, a few things to remember...
Even though there are many seeds there could be too many people trying to download all at once.. also.. some of them might be "firewalled".
Some of them might have, really slow broadband as well..

I'm going to ask this even though you probally have done it..
If you have a router, did you "port foward" tcp ports 6881 thru 6889 ?

zgall1 · Post by **zgall1** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:43 pm

I have not done this but I did change the port to 59999 and I have forwarded that port in my router.

Gary335 · Post by **Gary335** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:27 pm

I've attempted to use BitTorrent programs several times and I've ended up giving up every time because of problems very similar to yours. I was never able to achieve decent download speeds, and the programs would always tell me I was firewalled, even though I was not.

purecomedy · Post by **purecomedy** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:32 pm

I recall hearing something about ISPs being able to "tag" IP packets from file sharing programs and they give them absolute lowest priority under the guise that it is required to leave good bandwidth for web surfing, emailing etc.

No idea if all of this is true. I'm a skeptical SOB so I assume it is true, if the ISPs can save bandwidth on their mainlines they'll do it to save money.

Gary335 · Post by **Gary335** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:37 pm

purecomedy wrote:I recall hearing something about ISPs being able to "tag" IP packets from file sharing programs and they give them absolute lowest priority under the guise that it is required to leave good bandwidth for web surfing, emailing etc.

No idea if all of this is true. I'm a skeptical SOB so I assume it is true, if the ISPs can save bandwidth on their mainlines they'll do it to save money.

I don't know how true that really is. I mean, I can use other file sharing programs without a problem. I would imagine that if the ISP's were doing this they would do it to all types of file sharing programs, not just BitTorrent.