bittorrent speed way too low, what possible causes?

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sat Jun 2 15:38:59 UTC 2007


stan wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:14:31 -0700
> "Kam Leo" <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   
>> 1. Your ISP (Cox) may be throttling P2P traffic. Try using a port not
>> in the standard 6881-6999 range. Go to Azureus FAQ site for more
>> details if required.
>> 2. Your bittorrent client or firewall is not configured properly.
>>
>>     
>
> Well, I tried multiple ports 49311:49360, and single port 59311 and same
> result.  I checked the firewall before and after I opened the ports
> and the rules were there and OK. I am using the stock install of
> bittorrent-curses that other people report getting reasonable speeds
> on.  It sure looks like Cox filters for peer to peer in Phoenix.
>
> I heard back from Cox, the standard boilerplate about checking
> connections.  I asked for confirmation whether they are using filtering
> or not, haven't heard back yet.
>
> After I install F7 I'll try again, just in case it shakes something up
> in the configuration of my machine that is causing it.
>
> I can see that it would be very easy for them to filter as I am using
> an IP address assigned by them and they just have to look for the
> pattern of lots of ingoing and outgoing packets to and from multiple
> different IP addresses on my IP address.
>
>   
Stan

Does KTorrent produce the same results.  Last night downloading the iso 
with KTorrent was much faster than bittorrent.

Bob...




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