SunTzu21 Posted December 17, 2007 Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 Anyhow I've downloaded torrents for quite a while now, and generally have had no problem. However lately i've been having trouble trying to get seeds/peers and even sustain a connection. Usually it goes to like lets say 10kb then drops to 0 and stays dead. I've never had to forward ports before and I would generally get lets say 50KB connection speed for each file, which is good enough for me. Some changes that happened:I installed Windows SP 2 I installed the SP 2 but I did turn off the firewall, and even let UTorrent bypass the firewall. There is no message in the logger, it just won't download anything.... I tested the speeds again and even the ports to check if they are open, and they all check out. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Remeber I've downloaded torrents before, its just now there not working for some odd reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 17, 2007 Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 If you download a torrent from http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ what happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunTzu21 Posted December 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 What do you mean, you want me to download this opensource microsoft word thing? Can someone please help me with my problem?!??!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 17, 2007 Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 Yes, we need to know what happens when you try a KNOWN TO WORK torrent...both speeds down and up, connectivity with peers/seeds, and anything else you see as noteworthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunTzu21 Posted December 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 Ok I tried downloading the file and I got like 12 seeds. These seeds gave me a consistent DL speed of 100-200Kbs and actually sustained itself. The Upload rate was like 0.2 or 0.4 KB. There were no peers however and thats about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 If the status icon changed to green during that, you have no configuration problem at your end.You need to make sure you are uploading ~ 5 KiBps per slot to peers on any OTHER swarm and you will be getting the max they will give you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunTzu21 Posted December 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 Well it has the blue mark(downloading) and I check the port connection checking thing in the speed guide section of your torrent. And it says my connection is OK encovered in Green. My upload rate is well nonexistent but I set it to unlimited upload..... WHere is this thing if green says ok!?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Trying to upload at 'infinite' speed can cause worse problems than setting it a bit too low.Did you run Speed Guide (CTRL+G)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunTzu21 Posted December 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Yes I ran the speed guide and even setting the speed at 22 (upload) has no helped. Is it being I'm not receiving any peers? when I was downloading that english word torrent, my seeds were at 12 but no peers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 That's not unexpected. The main reason people use that is so we can verify if their ISP throttles/shapes their connection.If that torrent works "fine" according to their standards it is a problem of optimizing the settings so on LESS SPEEDY torrent swarms they are getting a fair upload (their download) amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunTzu21 Posted December 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 So then what should I do, what's my problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 You haven't described the behaviour you experience with the OpenOffice torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunTzu21 Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 What i've experience..... I think I've done that. Ok look when I download that file it has the seeds of 12 out of a swarm of about 1000. The peer slot has like 50 but no accepted so shows as 0(85) or something like that. My download speed when downloading that is high at about 100-200kb however the upload speed is 0-0.4kb. The speed is set to 256kb (I have DSL) and I checked the speed through the speed guide. I also checked encryption and the port says its open. The firewall is turned off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Since the OpenOffice downloads at your expected download speed you are assured that you CAN download at your peak speed. The problem usually lies with the peers, collectively not being configured for you to download FROM THEM as to reach such a speed. When you are running the torrent are you seeing incoming peers ("I" Flag under Peers tab) and the green checkmark network status icon in the taskbar?With 256 Kbit upload that is max theoretical 32 KiBps, of which you MAY even be able to squeeze out 30 while not downloading. The max set by Ctrl-G is sufficient so you should make sure you are only opening the number of slots to give a fair upload to all the peers you connect to: I would recommend 5 KiBps. That means you can leave the upload slots where it is @ 3 or lower it. It is possible the reason you are not seeing high uploads is because peers who you are uploading to ("U" flag) are snubbed ("S" flag).. if you let it run, and peers are interested in your pieces you should be able to upload just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunTzu21 Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 ok this time I checked the peers and there were alot mostly marked DE. They all produced DL rates for me about 10 Peers or 12 peers in the list. However in the torrent above it showed 3(some large number). There was a upload rate but low 0.4-0.6KB. The download rate was high like 200kb and what green light are you talking about? what else should I do. My other torrents don't work....Please someone help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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