Tweaking Bittorrent - How To Configure Bittorrent

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:43 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'm using Windows Vista Business.

So if u want to do port forwarding wher do you go? the internet browser with ur router's ip address or what? Sorry i'm seriously confused! And doing that would it affect other computers' connections cause my siblings and I use our own computers.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'm using bittorrent 6.03 now. i checked my ports using the speed guide provided by bittorrent it says

"Welcome to the Bittorrent Port Checker.
A test will be performed on your computer to check if the specified port is opened.

Checking port 63953 on 220.255.80.123...

OK! Port 63953 is open and accepting connections.

You will be able to receive incoming BitTorrent connections."

I had also added bittorent as a exception on windows firewall. So why am i still slow downloading speed?

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

there is just so many reasons why speeds could be slow.

==MISCONFIGURED ROUTER/FIREWALL==
is the light (or text) on your BT client YELLOW? did you 'forward the ports' on your router or 'open the ports' on your firewall?
help yourself complete faster (and make life easier on the seeder) by going to the SUPPORT section and reading TWEAKING BITTORRENT. it may take you a few hours to configure, but it'll save you DAYS of downloading time later!
not sure if you're configured right? see if you pass the nat check: http://btfaq.com/natcheck.pl

==TOO MANY TORRENTS OPEN==
many people make the mistake of trying to dl/seed too many torrents at one time. be PATIENT and not GREEDY. you will find that your speeds will probably improve if you limit yourself to 2-3 torrents at a time, rather than trying to dl four or more.

==ADJUSTING UPLOAD SPEED==
make sure you are not using 100% of your upload speed (we recommend using about 80-90% of your max upload speed).

also, make sure you're not choking it down to a minimum 3kB either! i've noticed that on most torrents, the higher i set my ul speed, the greater my dl speed.

example: let's say your max upload is 96kB.
if you set your torrent upload at 96kB (100%), you computer would not be able to perform other small network functions such as sending/receiving acknowledgement packets, etc.
if you set it too low (like 3kB), you may not get much in return. (bittorrent rewards SHARING.)

not sure what your max upload speed should be?
...1) you can call your isp and ask them what your ul speed should be. divide this number by eight and you will get your BT speed (example: 768kb = 96kB) (kb stands for kilobits; kB stands for kilobytes. 8 bits = 1 byte. Your bittorrent client measures speed in bytes while your ISP usually advertises speed in bits.)
...2) google for 'bandwidth speed test' and see if you can find a test for your UPLOAD speed. i know that www.dslreports.com has one.
...3) test it w/ your BT client. after you complete a torrent, turn off ALL other dl/ul's. set your client to 'SEED = UNLIMITED'. see how high your ul speed goes. try this with several torrents, and you will eventually figure out what your max BT ul speed is.

==UPLOAD RATE vs MAX UPLOADS==
many users think the best method of sharing is to spread it among the MOST amount of peers. (example: you set upload at 40kB; and set max uploads to 20 peers. each peer gets 2kB per second.) this is actually a poor method and inefficient use of BT.

BT chops a torrent up into "pieces". you cannot share a piece until you have COMPLETED that piece. therefore, if you have a 500MB torrent, it may chop it up into one hundred 5MB pieces.
if each peer is getting only 2kB per second, it will take a looooong time before a peer completes a 5MB piece to share.
instead, the better method is to set the amount of peers as LOW as possible. this way, each peer gets more kB per second. peers COMPLETE pieces faster, and thus, SHARE pieces faster.

==SUPER-SEED ON?==
some people think the word 'super' is pretty cool, so they always turn super-seed on. the super-seed option is not to be turned on unless you are the ONLY seeder on the torrent. otherwise, DO NOT turn it on.
more super-seed info: http://www.bittornado.com/docs/superseed.txt

==FRAGMENTED HARD DRIVE==
sometimes a highly fragmented hard drive can actually cause your computer to run slower.
right-click on your C: drive (or your dl drive) and choose 'properties'. click on the 'tools' tab and choose 'defragment now'.
click 'analyze', and repeat for every drive that you have. are your drives highly fragmented? stop everything and take the time to defrag and reboot.
you'll find that a UNfragmented drive will allow you to allocate a file faster and may improve speed.

==OTHER MISCELLANEOUS FACTORS THAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT==
* your ISP is throttling/limiting BT traffic (or p2p traffic, in general). if you're brave, you can call them and ask them if they have this policy.
* the peers you are connected to are very slow uploaders. they might have a very low upload speed or are setting their upload speed too low.
* the peers that are on the torrent have not configured their router/computer correctly for BT (you may have yours set up properly, but they may not).
* there is something wrong with the connection(s) between you and the other peers. you could try dropping off and connecting later, or wait for the situation to improve.

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:25 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Defragmenting my hard disk. Forwarded the ports. so where does the problem lies?

my speedtest

T.T wahh!

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

still tough to say. i'm sorry.

if your isp throttles BT, your bw speed may look great, but not when you're doing bt.

you really should do a search for singapore in our threads or on google in general. i've heard several people mention that there is throttling there.

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

When i first opened my video in wma its

Then after i downloaded the GSpot and AC3filter because my audio was not working, It became like that

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Ok after spending the last couple of days trying to connect to the new modem/router. I have finally done it but now I can't use utorrent or bittorrent.

To get you in the picture:
Country: uk
Internet provider: Tiscali
Modem: Semans Gigaset se 587 wlan dsl
o/s: win xp
Main torrent program: utorrent: 1.7.7
secondary torrent program: bittorrent 6.0.3

On utorrent I have the yellow triangle - no incoming connections
On bittirrent nothing is showing.
So I need to know what I have to do on the preferences to get it to work.

It was working fine on my usb speedtouch modem but since I have to connect another pc up for my mother - I'm having problems.

If anyone can help (step by step would be ideal) or can point me in the direction for help. that would be great. I think if someone can tell me what the default port number is or a working port number that would be great

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:03 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'm about ready to tear out what's left of my hair! I downloaded Vuze, and followed all of the instructions for configuring. Even logged into my Netgear router and set all of the port forwarding etc. I get a nice green light on my torrent download, but my upload speed is showing 39Kbs, while download is showing 3 or less. It tells me it's going to take almost 2 days just to download one file. I went into the my security suite's firewall and added Vuze to allow both downliad and upload. And under the "help", i keep getting fails on all of NAT and speed tests. What do I do now?

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

One more question - in the instructions at the beginning of this forum, the instructions for setting port forwarding all say "In the "Start Port" and "End Port" fields enter the port range (6881 to 6889)", but instructions I've read elsewhere say not to use those numbers, but numbers from 49512 upward. Which is correct?

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:07 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I seem to have an odd problem.

I am using Vuse/Azureus on several machines under Windows XP/Home&Pro and Vista on both broadband and dial-up. My home system is XP/Home and dial-up; I get to "borrow" a friend's SOHO LAN for the rest for several hours per day and transfer the files via flash drives. My interests cover the gamut from drama through anime and ending somewhere on the far side of music. The broadband connection is set to a minimum of 40kBps up depending on which machine I get to borrow that day (if I set it to unlimited on the machine hard wired to the modem, it tops out just over 110kBps up, but then nothing comes down for any app). The port varies by machine, but always tests out green.

Most trackers pose no problems, but D-Addicts and possibly a few others (mostly in this genre & not used very often) go weird. I will see a few (1 - 2) seeders and several leechers on my desired torrents. When I first open Vuse, I will either 1) connect quickly and start transferring data only to slowly choke down to nothing, never connecting to the seed; or 2) never connect/transfer at all.

The only times I remove a torrent from the complete/seed queue is either after I have a share ratio over 3.0 or I need to remove the files from the borrowed system. The seed priority is set strictly to "timed rotation." The home dial-up system doesn't seem to have a problem seeding if there are leechers without other seeds (but it's SLOW), but the broadband does. The drama torrents never seem to get over about 0.7 share ratio.