bittorrent slow

[Steven Ringwald]

sean wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:40:30 -0500
> "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> YMMV  Especially if your ISP is limiting your bandwidth during the day
>> and evening hours like mine seems to be.  I'm pretty sure RCN is, so
>> that their business customers (who pay more for their serivce) get more
>> bandwidth during their business day.
>>     
>
> Rate limiting by the ISP is not likely the problem for most people
> on this thread.
>   
> For instance, one person could download with ftp or http much 
> faster; this would suggest a bittorrent configuration issue
> (unless the ISP is specificially limiting torrents).
>
> Another user complained of 1.5k/s to 2.5k/s speeds which clearly
> doesn't have to do with rate limiting by the ISP and again suggests
> that bittorrent/firewall/router configuration is needed.
>   

One thing that I have found that helps is to not use the standard 
bittorrent port. The command line option is

--maxport 45000 --minport 40000

This has helped me loads in the past.

YMMV
Steve