hey, ever one

theres a problem with my computer, i've been able to download torrents before, using differnet programs.

but in the last few months or so, i haven't been able to get any of them to connect, they simply refuse to connect.

i don't know much about bit torrents, or how to fix them, anybody got a clue

also, if theres somebody out there with a fast connection to the internet, and would like to download a file for me then send it to me, please PM me
found someone, thanks

Are you sure you're using the ports you're using open on your router / firewall ?

this happend to me, it turns out a firewall had blocked it...

have you got norton etc, check them...

what ports am i supposed to have open?

What bittorrent client do you use?

This is for azureus?

Azureus WIki

i've used utorrent, bitcomet, and bittorrent

try azureus. its one of the best clients

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Originally posted by Reaper
try azureus. its one of the best clients

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Originally posted by Reaper
try azureus. its one of the best clients

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Originally posted by Johny
Are you sure you're using the ports you're using open on your router / firewall ?

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utorrents better,
a. i actualy got a signal, a craptacular one, but a signal nonethe less(like .1kb/s)
b.segosa provided a link so

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Originally posted by NiteMare
utorrents better,
a. i actualy got a signal, a craptacular one, but a signal nonethe less(like .1kb/s)
b.segosa provided a link so

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Originally posted by NiteMare
utorrents better,
a. i actualy got a signal, a craptacular one, but a signal nonethe less(like .1kb/s)
b.segosa provided a link so

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i'd recommend using some obscure port number for your bittorrent traffic, ie the month of your birth + the day + some random numbers to make a 5 digit port number and then forwarding that port to your pc through your router.

and it dosnt have to be 5 digits, but there less freqently blocked by isps.

if you wanna test your connection speed you could download a linux iso over bittorrent, ubuntu's dapper drake flight 5 was just released and should be being seeded like mad. you dont need to use it but it may show the speed you can achive.

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Originally posted by lizard.boy
if you wanna test your connection speed you could download a linux iso over bittorrent, ubuntu's dapper drake flight 5 was just released and should be being seeded like mad. you dont need to use it but it may show the speed you can achive.

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He's telling you to download an highly seeded file to test your connection at full power

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Originally posted by Johny
He's telling you to download an highly seeded file to test your connection at full power

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Originally posted by NiteMare
'm on cable so it should be fast, but they just seem slow

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like between 1-5kb/s

These sites should help:

P2p Forums
Portforward.com - A router specific guide on port forwarding

Personally i use Bitcomet, i have also used the official client, Utorrent and Azureus, i like bitcomet best. You can get bitcomet from download.com
A step by step guide on how to configure bitcomet

Hope that helped

thanks, but utorrent already configures the router for you, i found that out a few houres ago

Try manually configuring your router.

µTorrent is supposed to automatically configure your router, but there's no guarantees that it happened.

In my case, to let µTorrent configure my router, first I need to configure my router to let µTorrent configure it.

Instead of letting µTorrent automatically configure my router (enabling UPNP), I've just manually configured my router.

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Originally posted by rav0

µTorrent is supposed to automatically configure your router, but there's no guarantees that it happened.

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Originally posted by NiteMare
utorrent already configures the router for you, i found that out a few houres ago

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Guess you got lucky then. So is it working for you now?

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Originally posted by Scone
Guess you got lucky then. So is it working for you now?

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Did you try what lizard.boy suggested?

Get a torrent which you know is massively seeded (for example a big name Linux distribution). Try downloading that, and see if you get better speeds.

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Originally posted by rav0

µTorrent is supposed to automatically configure your router, but there's no guarantees that it happened.

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Originally posted by NiteMare
utorrent already configures the router for you, i found that out a few houres ago

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guess who i found out that it does it for you, because i checked my router

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get a torrent you know is well seeded to see if its just the torrents you pick.

And whats your connection speed?
Remember that if you have a 256k Connection, your max speed shouldnt be 256k. its more like your speed divided by 9.

So if you have 256k your speed would be 28kb/s give or take a few, and for 512k it would be 56kb/s give or take.

Although in saying that i have an uncapped connection (Fast as my areas network will carry me at the time) My average speed is about 50-100k but i have been up to 6 and 800..

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Originally posted by Animal
thats Nice of a progeram to do that but security wise its not that safe IMO,

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Originally posted by Scone
get a torrent you know is well seeded to see if its just the torrents you pick.

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Originally posted by Scone
get a torrent you know is well seeded to see if its just the torrents you pick.

And whats your connection speed?
Remember that if you have a 256k Connection, your max speed shouldnt be 256k. its more like your speed divided by 9.

So if you have 256k your speed would be 28kb/s give or take a few, and for 512k it would be 56kb/s give or take.

Although in saying that i have an uncapped connection (Fast as my areas network will carry me at the time) My average speed is about 50-100k but i have been up to 6 and 800..

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