> Le Mercredi 15 Octobre 2003 17:49, Rolf Pedersen a �crit : >> After 8 hrs, my download was only 20kB/s on 1536/384, max_upload_rate >> 20. About 700 MB had been downloaded and 1200 MB up. Although >> 6881-6889 and 6969 were opened both ways, at this point I tried a >> couple of moves that seemed to have an effect previously. I (1) >> restarted the torrent with (2) the firewall disabled only until the >> torrent was well underway and download climbed to around 100 kB/s for >> the balance. > > I have a firewall, too. My ADSL is 128/512. The upload speed was always > max_upload=13k but the DL speed decreases to 3k after a few hours. This > is due to the firewall which allows only my requests on ports 6881-6999 > When allowing external connection on thes ports, the DL speed increases > up to 30-40k and sometimes more. > > Then, it is necessary to include in the package a tool which opens these > ports and switches them off when closing bitTorrent. >
On your firewall ( assuming you are using a shorewall based one ) DNAT from your fw to the machine you are actually running bittorrent on. Also cap your upload speed. Once I did that I got 100KB+ second downloads. There is some work to get it running well if you are behind a firweall. -randy
