Hi Hugh
I would say check your firewall on the machine and your routers to make sure
everything is ok. Your router needs to port-forward all bittorrent
requests to
your machine, and your firewall needs to allow them too. The reason is that
bittorrent penalises you if you are not allowing people to upload from
your machine
too (it basically throttles your download speed) and you would then get
the sorts
of rates you are seeing. Currently you should be seeing download rates of
150KB (or kbs?). To do a quick check to see if people can connect to
you, in a
terminal type
netstat -t
and see if people have connections to you on port 6881 or above. If not then
your firewall and/or router is preventing them.
Make sure you set your upload rate correctly too (on mine on broadband it
was about 20 - anything higher and the TCP acknowledgments can't get
out and data is retransmitted).
If this means nothing to you then read on...
In Mandriva Control Centre (system->configuration->configure your computer)
and select the security tab. Then select setting up personal firewall
and ensure
that you allow bittorrent explictly.
Then on your router (assuming you are connected via a router to the
broadband)
you need to find out where the port-forwarding commands are (this is
*if* your
router also acts as a firewall). On mine bizarrely enough it is located
in the
Games tab. There you need to give the ip address of your machine for the
packets
to forward to for the bittorrent port range (which is 6881-6999)
The reason you need to do this (aside from bittorrents penalising) is
that you become a server
to other bittorrent clients, which means that the request to connect
comes from
outside in the internet rather than from you going out. And that is
exactly what
firewalls prevent.
If that still means nothing to you ...
Read up about bittorrent and firewalls on the internet, check the manual
for your
router, and read up about TCP/IP, ports, port-forwarding etc.
HTH
Neill
Hugh Dixon wrote:
Hi,
As a standard club member, I am downloading the 4 CD version of 2007
from the torrent.
It started off saying it would take 75 days to download, but, having run
for about 24 hours, is now consistantly saying it will take a further 7
days, at a speed of about 3kb/s.
I have an ADSL connection, and would expect a speed of about 50kb/s, and
a download time for something of this size of about 18 hours.
I do not download a lot from torrents, so am after/would appreciate some
advice,
Is there a config in the client that I could/need to tweak?
Is it a new torrent, and therefore the sources are limited, with
download speed improving as more ppl download?
Something else is forcing or causing me to learn patience?
Ta for any help,
----
Hugh Dixon
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