Re: FC4 Torrent Slow? Or, is it just me?

[Jan Visser <jan visser tiscali nl>]

Kam Leo wrote:
> On 6/13/05, Jan Visser <jan visser tiscali nl> wrote:
>
> > Kenneth Porter wrote:
> >
> > > --On Monday, June 13, 2005 2:44 PM -0400 Kurt Hansen
> > > <khansen charityweb net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to download the iso's for FC4, but they are coming down
> > > > awfully slowly.
> > >
> > >
> > > Can others reach your listening ports? Check that your firewall allows
> > > the connection and, you're behind a NAT router, that the ports get
> > > forwarded to your host.
> > >
> > > If others can't reach your listening ports, then the only traffic you
> > > get is from peers you've connected to, which will artificially limit the
> > > size of the swarm you can reach. (Some other peers will be behind NAT
> > > routers that you can't reach, because they didn't' forward ports, and
> > > those sources will be unavailable to you unless they contact you first.)
> >
> > Well mine is not fast either. My share ratio is 1.80 so that shouldn't
> > be any problem. Anyway tommorow will be a nice day :D
>
>
> I was getting the same speeds you are experiencing until I changed
> from Bittorrent to Azureus and checked the Azureus FAQ regarding the
> yellow status icon. Found that I need to change the UPnP setting on my
> router. If you are using a router with NAT enabled make sure that UPnP
> is enabled.  Instead of 6-20 kB/sec I am now observing 200-220 kB/sec.
I am using Azureus, and that port is open. So thats not it. Anyway it's 
up to 70 kb/s and my max is 80 so that's good.

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