Bittorrent Rules

[clicknext]

Illegal crap aside, I'm downloading 3Dmark05 at a blazing 230KB/s. All the other places I tried only gave me about 30, and it just kept going downwards.

 

[BlueWeasel]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[SKORPI0]

290.19 mB. :shocked:

 

[mitchafi]

don't forget to seed

 

[Bateluer]

I've never DLed anything that fast in BitTorrent. Shoot, I'd be happy with a steady 25KB to 45KB/s. I use the BitSpirit client because I like its interface.

And I usually try to seed for about 8 hours for each item I DL thru bittorrent, depends on how many things I got in my queue to DL.

 

[flexy]

try ABC, its pretty simple and gives me the best speeds. (Azureus doesnt for some reason).

Also, if you're behind a router/firewall open and forward the ports (usually 6881 - 6999). Otherwise your speeds might suffer.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

My 512k "broadband" gives me low 30's at most.

I went through a spell of using ABC, but got fed up with its random freezings. It's all Azureus now for me.

 

[clicknext]

Yep, I use Azureus. I usually only seed until my share ratio is 1, seems fair to me.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: clicknext
Illegal crap aside, I'm downloading 3Dmark05 at a blazing 230KB/s. All the other places I tried only gave me about 30, and it just kept going downwards.

That's not illegal.

Futuremark themselves has a torrent link on their site.

And yeah...i got it at my ISP's max download speed

 

[clicknext]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: clicknext
Illegal crap aside, I'm downloading 3Dmark05 at a blazing 230KB/s. All the other places I tried only gave me about 30, and it just kept going downwards.

That's not illegal.

Futuremark themselves has a torrent link on their site.

And yeah...i got it at my ISP's max download speed

I know, I meant all the other illegal stuff you can do.

 

[yankeesfan]

bittornado is the best client, IMO

 

[mitchafi]

I was using Azureus for the longest time and loved it but then all of the sudden my downloads would get stuck at 99.9% and it would keep downloading loads of extra data and discard it. Switched to BitTornado and the problem is gone, although I liked Azureus' interface a lot better.

 

[Weeeman]

Im behind a firewall at school... so i tend to stick away from bit torrent... the first few trys totaled about .2

 

[mitchafi]

I'm going to cry when I go away to college and am cut off from BT

 

[bleuiko]

yeah... but firewalls at home is ok (router); just a heads up to those people trying to get it at home and havn't figured it out yet. You need to open your ports 6881-6999 to your LAN address.

btw, i used to work for resnet at my college campus (graduated now) and we were getting bittorrent lawsuit letters for students. big brother is watching BT. not that you have anything to worry about, since you're all downloading legit software anyway.

I await the day when all game demos and other downloads are BT enabled. =)

 

[Weeeman]

Bleuiko.. quick question... If im behind a firewall at school [The lead networking guy is a peen] is it still possible for me to receive incoming connections? Or would i likely have to have them change something? [If i asked him to change something, he my just have a heart attack..dum@##]

 

[The Green Bean]

its funny but my 128K "broadband" gives me more than 40Ks from Http/Ftp. But on bittorrents my upload is <3Kbs hence download sux.

 

[bleuiko]

@weeeman:

if your main campus firewall or resnet firewall has the BT ports blocked, you will not be able to get any incoming connections. this problem can be easily resolved by changing your BT client to accept connections on ports that are open.

if your campus or resnet firewall is running a packet watcher (i.e. packet shaper), then you might be in a little bit of trouble. such a program watches all incoming traffic and either blocks it or let it through, depending on what type it is. BT might be blocked at that end. even if it is not blocked, it might be allocated a very tiny % of campus bandwidth, so even if you are able to download, it will be ultra slow. that is what our campus decided to do to kazza packets. we gave it a total of like 1% bandwidth shared among all the students... it was slooow. you must talk to your sysadmin to change these things

if what you're connected to does not give you an external IP, then you will have the same problem as the router users, with the incoming connection not knowing which internal computer to send the packet to. in this case, you will have to tell your sysadmin to forward the BT ports to you, but i doubt he would do that

good luck!

@all:

please correct me if i am wrong with any of these comments. i am unfamiliar with other networking strategies that some colleges might offer

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Originally posted by: hatim
its funny but my 128K "broadband" gives me more than 40Ks from Http/Ftp. But on bittorrents my upload is <3Kbs hence download sux.

It IS funny. 128kbits/sec translates to 16kbytes/sec. It is DSL? Perhaps some careless and/or generous soul at your ISP is responsible...

Another quaint thing I noticed on Azureus is that, quite often I get humungous DL rates despite piddly UL rates (e.g. 3-5 KB/s). At other times there is some correlation between DL and UL rates. I think the former is more frequent because I've been getting very low share ratios (20-30%) lately.

 

[drag]

bittorrent will still work if your ports are blocked, but at a much reduced rate.

For instance I use a masquarading-based router (NAT based), and the only connections allowed to reach my computer are ones that I initiate or ones that go to ports that are forwarded to my computer.

Bittorrent worked without port forwarding, but when I allowed people to reach me easier it increased the speed 4x.... Bittorrent does a active balancing setup, the faster you upload the faster you can download.

You can hack a client (some like azeurus have settings to limit outgoing connections) to make it so that you only upload at a slow rate, but the clients will only upload to you at a similarly slow rate...

Also another thing is that downloads start off very slow. Since your not uploading your download speed is at a trickle. And uploading/downloading happens in 1meg chunks (or so it seems). So after you get 2-3 megs downloaded then you start uploading and your speed shoots right up.

So basicly a guy with a 3Mb/s download and 256kb/s upload will have slower bittorrent setup then a guy with a symmetrical 768kb/s download and a 768kb/s upload speed.

The only thing you can do is try it out. If it works then it works. But give it about a half hour of download time before making any judgements.

And don't forget (IIRC) bittorrent was originally designed for downloading Linux install cdrom ISO images, so bittorrent was originally designed for legitament purposes (unlike say kazza), and still is.

Before, the more people downloading off a server, the slower it gets. Now the more people downloading off of a .torrent the faster it gets! Bittorrent rocks.

 

[The Green Bean]

Originally posted by: ming2020

Originally posted by: hatim
its funny but my 128K "broadband" gives me more than 40Ks from Http/Ftp. But on bittorrents my upload is <3Kbs hence download sux.

It IS funny. 128kbits/sec translates to 16kbytes/sec. It is DSL? Perhaps some careless and/or generous soul at your ISP is responsible...

Another quaint thing I noticed on Azureus is that, quite often I get humungous DL rates despite piddly UL rates (e.g. 3-5 KB/s). At other times there is some correlation between DL and UL rates. I think the former is more frequent because I've been getting very low share ratios (20-30%) lately.

yes very careless ...Atleast it makes up for the huge downtime they have

 

[Cheetah8799]

The official postings on FileRush.com (left side of their site) are almost always around 300KBps for me on my Comcast 3mbps line.

 

[djneils98]

I use Azureus (and have tried many others). Recently I improved my download speeds a lot (I got 1mbit broadband and went from a typical 20-30kb/s to 90-100) by changing the port from the usual bittorrent range to 49513. I did this because one of the tracker sites recommended it bacause they said many ISPs throttle known peer-to-peer ports. The other thing I did was set my max upload speed to about 80% of my full upload bandwidth (again recommended on a tracker forum) - apparently this leaves some bandwidth free for some kind of control messages to be passed between bt clients.
Anyway these 2 tweaks definately worked for me (using sp2 and it's firewall) so try'em!

 

[rh71]

On popular torrents, I've gotten sustained 450KBps down. It does slow down toward the end since fewer people have all the parts usually.

 

[Qwest]

djneils is right, DO NOT use ports 6881-6999. change the settings on your router (if you're using one) and then your client. and dont ask what ports to use. everyone should use the most random ports possible (with a range of 10).

if you dont know how to forward ports on your router, check this site out.

also, check out G3 Torrents, another great client.