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Reaper man
07-12-2004, 12:41 AM
I swear, I'm getting the slowest speed with something that has 86 seeds and over 689 peers, is there something I'm doing wrong?

client: Burst! Ver RC5c
settings:
max peers: 40
min/max uploads: 10/20
unlimited upload speed

btw... give out your client settings and such if you want

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TPC
07-12-2004, 01:03 AM
> client: Burst! Ver RC5c

You are using the wrong client. That client is known to be buggy.

I'm using the linux version of bittornado (http://bittornado.com/) but there is a windows version. The linux version have both a console and a gui version where windows only have the gui, and I use the console version, but that doesn't matter since the internal code for downloading is the same.
Those are the settings I'm using:
max uploads: 8
max upload rate: 40
minimum number of peers: 32
the rest is the default.

I change the numbers depending on what connection I'm on.
the max uploads I set to upload speed in kb/s divided with 8. and the max upload rate about 20 lower than the max. I get as good speed as I can get on the connection with those settings.

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Reaper man
07-12-2004, 02:14 AM
Great, thanks :)

now all I need to find is something that can test to see if I can receive incoming UDP packects and what not

little help?

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maq112k2
07-12-2004, 02:53 AM
> now all I need to find is something that can test to see if
> I can receive incoming UDP packects and what not
>
> little help?

Well, actually, I prefer Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) when it comes to BitTorrent. It's purty, and works really well, and is quite informative on what's going on.

And why would you need to open UDP? If I recall correctly, BitTorrent runs off TCP (my router is set to forward TCP 6881-6999 to the computer I use BT on, and I usually get pretty high speeds). If you meant TCP, then Azureus has a TCP incoming port checker built in, in the Configuration Wizard.

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SirDaShadow
07-12-2004, 02:58 AM
I second Azureus. Altough the latest versions are broken (in my machine at least), the older versions do work fine. Also, it is very important to limit your upload to 80% of your total capacity, otherwise your computer will starve for ACKs and download will slow down to a crawl. So if you have 128Kbps upload, limit that to 96kbps. If you have 256kbps, 200kbps should be plenty.


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Reaper man
07-12-2004, 03:03 AM
> And why would you need to open UDP? If I recall correctly,
> BitTorrent runs off TCP (my router is set to forward TCP
> 6881-6999 to the computer I use BT on, and I usually get
> pretty high speeds). If you meant TCP, then Azureus has a
> TCP incoming port checker built in, in the Configuration
> Wizard.


thanks, I guess I'll have to cancel the download and get another client... alrigthy

edit: aah... ok I got it now... hopefully I'l get some fast downloads now
how fast can I expect with a 25KBs upload rate?

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