HAHAHA. Dialup is 4kB/s on average. Anyway, there is no 'new guy' rating - it's your router's fault or your connection's fault. Just wait a while - the longer it's open the faster it gets.
On 9/27/05, Rod Engelsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I doing this right? I installed BT as an experiment mostly and I'm > currently dl'ing the SUSE iso files. I opened ports 6881-6889 for > forwarding in my router, but despite having approximately 40-50 download > streams I'm getting a dl speed of like 20-30KB/s. I can do better than > that on dialup. BTW, this is on a 3Mb/s cable connection. Direct from > most mirror sites I get anywhere from 150 to 300 KB/s. The client > reports that at this rate it will take at least a full day to dl SUSE. > > Does it help to open more incoming ports? Is it because I'm new and have > a low (non-existent) good-guy rating? How am I ever going to get a > rating worth a poop if my IP address is constantly changing? (My > connection tends to flake out on me for some reason, so I probably > reconnect a couple times a day at least and that means a new address > each time.) > > Or is this supposedly wonderful bittorrent thing a lot of hot air? > > Rod > -- -hackmiester
