Slooooooooooooow Downloads

[pausonne]

I tried to read as many of the posts as possible, but they did get a little long.

I have two issues really.

1) The little icon at the bottom is always either orange or red yet I seem to be downloading stuff. Is that right?

2) My download speeds are horrendously slow--it took 3 days to download a 4 gigabyte file on a 6 Mb/s DSL. That CAN'T be normal! Is this a function of the orange or red icon?

I have XP Pro, I have done all the port forwarding, I have nothing particularly strange in my software or hardware, I have a D-link DI524 Router and am using the wireless network for my laptop. 2.8. GHz processor, 1 Gig Ram, 100 gig hard drive. Anything weird sounding to anyone who knows? Thanks for any help.

Keith Gardner

PS: Well, now I have done EVERYTHING I can find to do--reentered all info on my router, added several additional ports to the router, uninstalled and reinstalled my firewalls, and I still get the message that the port is closed! What gives!!??

[µtorrent-Guest]

if you don't have a green one, your portforwarding is NOT correct. That's the main cause for slow speeds.

check your portforwarding thingy again.

[pausonne]

Does anyone know which post will tell me what MORE to check after I have done all the above? I am stumped!! All my downloads say "6d 17h" or some such ridiculous figure! I STILL have nothing but yellow or red icons on my screen.

[DreadWingKnight]

When port forwarding:

1> Many routers require a static IP.

2> Many of those routers require that the static IP be outside of the router's DHCP range.

Have you made sure of this?

[pausonne]

I have applied a static IP but I don't quite understand what you mean by "outside of the router's DHCP range." Does that mean, for example, that if my router operates at 192.168.0.1, that I must use something like 192.178.2.4 or some such?

[Ultima]

You can probably find your router's DHCP range somewhere in the configurations. If the range starts from 192.168.0.1, and ends at 192.168.0.50 (50 IPs in the range), then you should at least set your static IP to 192.168.0.51 (which is OUTSIDE of that range).