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DieDieMyDarling · 11-11-2005, 12:50

I don't use torrents anymore, unless i absolutely have to, but with all the recent shut downs of various listing sites, and with more and more people leaving the torrent scene as a whole, you will experience much slower speed than say a year ago.

Another thing that can really get in the way is your firewall, i used to set my torrent ports as 50000-60000, then set them in my firewall client, on both TCP and UDP, i found i got much higher speeds that way.

The main problem will be seeds though, there just aren't as many around these days. Also make sure your settings are right in your torrent software, upstream set as high as possible, etc.

11-11-2005, 12:50	#8
DieDieMyDarling Inactive Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Belfast Age: 52 Services: 10 mb NTL Broadband, Sky TV (full package). Posts: 309	Re: so slow on 1mb I don't use torrents anymore, unless i absolutely have to, but with all the recent shut downs of various listing sites, and with more and more people leaving the torrent scene as a whole, you will experience much slower speed than say a year ago. Another thing that can really get in the way is your firewall, i used to set my torrent ports as 50000-60000, then set them in my firewall client, on both TCP and UDP, i found i got much higher speeds that way. The main problem will be seeds though, there just aren't as many around these days. Also make sure your settings are right in your torrent software, upstream set as high as possible, etc.