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genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
edited March 2006 in Technical Stuff and Help
We are using it for the first time and its reeeeally slow.
Is there something wrong or is that the way it goes?
the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
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  • Co RivalCo Rival Posts: 49
    What about it?
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  • CaptainSpaz91CaptainSpaz91 Posts: 266
    It depends on who you are downloading from I believe.
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  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    Yep, it's pretty slow, even with high speed cable. :)
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  • genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
    Its been running all night and it says to expect 2 days...
    I dont know what it as that hubbie is DLing though so
    thats all the info I can give. It just seems sooo slow!
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
    Whats the benefit if this is how it goes?
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • Low_Light03Low_Light03 Posts: 1,227
    I had a similar problem untill I opened up the ports for the program I was using. I had to go into my router's settings to set it up. I also disable the firewall whenever I download something.
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  • Man_Of_The_HourMan_Of_The_Hour Posts: 330
    genevieve wrote:
    We are using it for the first time and its reeeeally slow.
    Is there something wrong or is that the way it goes?

    Hi genevieve, good to see you around. Hope everything is right. Bittorrent is actually pretty complicated when it comes to finding out why it's not working. Could be unopened ports, bad torrent, slow swarm, the wrong client. A good source is the Azureus wiki. I'll try coming up with the link.

    Edit: It doesn't need to be slow, if you tune your computer accordingly it can go pretty good although not as fast a direct DLs

    The azureus wiki: http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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  • Marie CurieMarie Curie Posts: 1,250
    genevieve wrote:
    We are using it for the first time and its reeeeally slow.
    Is there something wrong or is that the way it goes?

    depends on how many peers do you have on that torrent. Few peers (less than 10), slow download; lots of peers, fast download.
    “Life is life everywhere. Life is in ourselves and not outside us. There will be men beside me, and the important thing is to be a man among men and to remain a man always, whatever the misfortunes, not to despair and not to fall - that is the aim of life, that is its purpose.”
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  • jeffbrjeffbr Posts: 7,177
    Bittorrent speeds are dependent upon a number of factors. How many seeds? How many leechers? Avg percent complete of the leechers. Are the seeds firewalled? Other leechers firewalled? Are you firewalled? Do you have more than a couple of torrents going? What else is your bandwidth being used for? How big is the torrent (if your husband is downloading a 10-dvd porn collection it could take awhile ;) ).

    The benefit of bittorrent is that things can be shared with distributed bandwidth. Everybody contributes to the giving and taking of bits so nobody has to set up a central server and spend a lot of money on bandwidth to serve people. The downside is that speeds can vary considerably. But since you're getting something for free, your only real costs are time and computer resources.
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  • genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
    Man_Of_The_Hour wrote:
    Hi genevieve, good to see you around. Hope everything is right. Bittorrent is actually pretty complicated when it comes to finding out why it's not working. Could be unopened ports, bad torrent, slow swarm, the wrong client. A good source is the Azureus wiki. I'll try coming up with the link.

    Edit: It doesn't need to be slow, if you tune your computer accordingly it can go pretty good although not as fast a direct DLs

    The azureus wiki: http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

    He'll be home soon and Im gonna make him read this.
    We only really use Kazaa Lite or other normal sources.

    Glad to see you too MOTH. Thanks for sticking up for me the
    other day on the in the shower thread. :D
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • onestarburnsonestarburns Posts: 12
    depending on what program you are using (im an azarious fan) i would run a prot or nat/firewall test to make sure everything is running smooth, if not you have to open up a port, that happened to me for a while i mean it was taking hours for one album, that really helped so...
  • Man_Of_The_HourMan_Of_The_Hour Posts: 330
    genevieve wrote:
    He'll be home soon and Im gonna make him read this.
    We only really use Kazaa Lite or other normal sources.

    Glad to see you too MOTH. Thanks for sticking up for me the
    other day on the in the shower thread. :D

    No prob, gotta be loyal to the debauchery.

    Kazaa Lite isnt for bittorrents is it?
    Well, do you need a lot of what you've got to survive?
  • Man_Of_The_HourMan_Of_The_Hour Posts: 330
    onestarburns wrote:
    depending on what program you are using (im an azarious fan) i would run a prot or nat/firewall test to make sure everything is running smooth, if not you have to open up a port, that happened to me for a while i mean it was taking hours for one album, that really helped so...


    He's right. I use azureus as well and it's running very smoothly for bt standards. I've tried other clients and wasn't able to open my ports with them even though everything wasi dentical comp-wise except the client.

    And he's right about the ports, you sometimes need to work around both the software firewall AND the rooter.

    You can test for open ports here https://grc.com/x/portprobe=52525

    replace the 52525 with the number of the port you wanna use for bt
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  • genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
    Man_Of_The_Hour wrote:
    No prob, gotta be loyal to the debauchery.

    Kazaa Lite isnt for bittorrents is it?

    No its just for regular Dling.
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
    Man_Of_The_Hour wrote:
    He's right. I use azureus as well and it's running very smoothly for bt standards. I've tried other clients and wasn't able to open my ports with them even though everything wasi dentical comp-wise except the client.

    And he's right about the ports, you sometimes need to work around both the software firewall AND the rooter.

    You can test for open ports here https://grc.com/x/portprobe=52525

    replace the 52525 with the number of the port you wanna use for bt

    The problem seems to be the type of internet we use.
    Its a wireless thing. From a local tower. We live in the
    country and cant have highspeed. Dialup takes forever.

    So I guess for some reason(that I dont understand)
    we cant share the way it normally works. We cant
    open all the ports and everything. We will maybe
    just have to be patient. Ant more tips will help though.
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • Man_Of_The_HourMan_Of_The_Hour Posts: 330
    genevieve wrote:
    The problem seems to be the type of internet we use.
    Its a wireless thing. From a local tower. We live in the
    country and cant have highspeed. Dialup takes forever.

    So I guess for some reason(that I dont understand)
    we cant share the way it normally works. We cant
    open all the ports and everything. We will maybe
    just have to be patient. Ant more tips will help though.

    Certain internet provider may block certain ports but I doubt that that's the case. But I guess you're hubby is pretty knowledgeable about this stuff so if he's read the wiki and hasn't got it going yet that's not a good sign. Which client do you use?
    Well, do you need a lot of what you've got to survive?
  • genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
    Our internet service provider only gives us a private ip address.
    So no one can reach us. Or so Ive been told. :D

    We are just using Bit Torrent.
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • Man_Of_The_HourMan_Of_The_Hour Posts: 330
    genevieve wrote:
    Our internet service provider only gives us a private ip address.
    So no one can reach us. Or so Ive been told. :D

    We are just using Bit Torrent.

    The private ip address shouldnt keep others from connecting with you, private ips are pretty standard. What you could do is trying azureus, there you can specifically choose which port you want to open, you just need to open it on your router (in case youre using one) and on thw windows firewall. if it doesnt work then (you can check if youve correctly opened it through this link I gave you earlier) you might indeed have a problem with your provider blocking ports.
    Well, do you need a lot of what you've got to survive?
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