im new, what am i doing

[whos in my head]

i dont know what to do, ive read the intros at bittorrent.com and i went to bittorrent and picked out some thing and clicked the download things and saied to open with utorrent and it says its been going for 10min and 32 sec and 1.1% is done, why is it so slow? when i checked it saied my remaining time was 1w 1d 7h which i think is 1 week 1 day and 7 hours, which is crazy some one explain this to me

[Grammar Police]

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[Spykie]

http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com/

dude.. be quiet... what's the big fuss?

anyway "whos in my head" you're doing fine, 1,1% on a file in 10 minutes is very good (if it is a 1Gb+ file), otherwise the speed should pick up after a while.

[tozz]

i dont know what to do, ive read the intros at bittorrent.com and i went to bittorrent and picked out some thing and clicked the download things and saied to open with utorrent and it says its been going for 10min and 32 sec and 1.1% is done, why is it so slow? when i checked it saied my remaining time was 1w 1d 7h which i think is 1 week 1 day and 7 hours, which is crazy some one explain this to me

You have to tell us more than that.

1. How big is the file you're going to download?

2. How many seeders are there and how many peers?

3. What kind of speeds do you usualy get when downloading with ftp, http or other?

4. Do you have any firewall? If so, is uTorrent allowed access for incoming and outgoing traffic?

[chaosblade]

as tozz said, we need more info to help you..

Oh, just to make sure: BT is NOT the new KazaaNapster. Just making it clearer

[whos in my head]

the size is 34.4 MB

50 min has gone by 12.3% done

3(5) seeds

0(14) peers

i use windows firewall and utorent has access

is it this slow for everyone? also why is it so slow?

whats the point of using this if its so slow, i dont get it

any help would be great

[chaosblade]

3/5 seeds isnt bad at all. It's just a slow torrent.. Nothing you can do about it. It doesn't have alot of people sharing it. Seems you're not connected to any peer either, which is a bit odd. Try using the 'Connect To Peers Slower' feature if you haven't enabled it. Might help there.

[winMX_67]

Maybe the seeders have slow upload or limit there upload.

[slimy]

the size is 34.4 MB

50 min has gone by 12.3% done

3(5) seeds

0(14) peers

i use windows firewall and utorent has access

is it this slow for everyone? also why is it so slow?

whats the point of using this if its so slow, i dont get it

any help would be great

do you have a router? the file you are downloading isn't very popular, therefore speeds are slow.

[lament]

if you have a router:

1) go here and choose the router that you have.

2) once you find your router, click the link and it will bring you to a list of programs. choose BitTorrent.

3) follow the instructions to forward (open) a port in your router to allow BitTorrent traffic, but substitute port 50000 for 6881 in the example they give. the reason you want to avoid forwarding port 6881-6889 is that ISPs sometimes throttle (only allow a limited amount) of traffic on these ports, so using a high port like 50000 would be best. there is no "best" port for bittorrent - but choosing a high one makes certain that other programs won't be using the port you choose.

4) Open up µTorrent, go here and check to see if you forwarded your port correctly (change the number at the end to whatever port number you chose if you didn't choose 50000).

If you did all the above correctly, the port should say OPEN after you click the link in number 4.

You should now have faster downloads now that you're connectable.