Downloading Shuffle!10,Slow Download speed

[breadloon]

Im using a router and i already forward my ports.(6881-6889)but the speed is still quite slow.i connected to 10seeds and 6peers.

Port for incomming connection: 6881

Ip reported to: <My Ip>

i already done this settings,but still slow

[Firon]

You shouldn't use any port in that range. Try something above 10000.

Nor should you use IP to report to tracker. It is for people behind proxies and people on the same LAN as the tracker ONLY!

How many seeders/peers are in the swarm? Does µTorrent say Network OK?

And define 'slow' speeds. You can't always get good speeds on torrents.

Try the OpenOffice.org torrents, if you can get good speed there, there's not much else you can do.

[breadloon]

Sorry but im a complete newbie of using utorrent which i switch from bittornado

my speed goes like 12kb/s and my upload 16.8/s

and how do i know if utorrent says "ok"

[1c3d0g]

Look at the bottom of your status bar...what does it say? :/

[Animorc]

Try this torrent:

http://borft.student.utwente.nl:6969/file?info_hash=%18%F6%20s%FD%FA%DA%D5%91%86%94%10%DE%A5%8FV%B6%1Fi%A1

It's for OpenOffice 2.0.0 and it's known to reach speeds above 100 kB/s in seconds.

If this works fine, it's the peers you're connected to that are the bottleneck, not µTorrent.

[breadloon]

Here is the screenshot of my Utorrent..

[Firon]

Lol, you can't get good speeds on a torrent like that. Your speed depends largely on the speed of everyone else, and that torrent has only 1 connectable seed apparently...

[breadloon]

yay i know..im trying to say my status bar did not appear "network OK"

[Firon]

It happens sometimes on torrents with small swarms. If you get no incoming connections on a -small- swarm, then µTorrent won't display anything since it wouldn't be reliable.

Try a torrent with lots of peers.

[breadloon]

Try this torrent:

http://borft.student.utwente.nl:6969/file?info_hash=%18%F6%20s%FD%FA%DA%D5%91%86%94%10%DE%A5%8FV%B6%1Fi%A1

It's for OpenOffice 2.0.0 and it's known to reach speeds above 100 kB/s in seconds.

If this works fine, it's the peers you're connected to that are the bottleneck, not µTorrent.

my speed is abt 80-,it nv exceeds 100kb/s

Hm firon,u said that its best not to use port 6881,why?then what specific port should i use

[Firon]

Ports 6881-6889 are commonly throttled in speed by many ISPs, so it's recommended to avoid using them.

What's the line speed your ISP says for your connection? Sounds like it's about 1Mbit from your speeds.

You should've seen Network OK or NAT Error while running the OpenOffice torrent...

[breadloon]

yeah i did see it,take a while tho

my isp speed is 1500k

man my speed still sucks tho..argh

yay,im not sure my isp thottle my speed ornot..so what is the best port to use?

[Firon]

Did you try changing your port to a random number above 10000 and restarting µTorrent? (making sure you forwarded said port, of course)

You don't have a firewall, do you?

[breadloon]

yeah i have mcafee firewall professional.

I change to port 32459, is that alright?

[chaosblade]

It should be fine. Anything outside the 6881-6889 range should be fine, With 5 digit ports favored ;]

[Firon]

Yes, but make sure you set an exception for µTorrent in your firewall. Incoming on port 32459 for TCP and UDP, outgoing for all ports on TCP and UDP. If you saw network OK, then it means all is fine.

[breadloon]

So you mean..i should forward the ports in my mcafee firewall as well? But Even i did not forward it in my mcafee firewall, it still says"network OK"

I thought i need to forward TCP only, Why UDP too

[Firon]

UDP is needed for DHT.

Well, if you get Network OK, I guess that means TCP is allowed by your firewall...

[breadloon]

okay,so don't do anything to my firewall..just forward the ports via UDP right?

[Firon]

That should work, yes, if the firewall already allows µTorrent for everything. If DHT works at all, it probably does.