--On Monday, June 13, 2005 2:44 PM -0400 Kurt Hansen <khansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.)
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.
ETA 8h 36m
Thanks for all your help. I tried Azureus, port forwarding, port triggering, and UPnP, and nothing worked. I'm running out of tech terms to try.
I'm beginning to think there is a bug in my wireless router -- Netgear WGT624 -- or my ISP is blocking the port. I've bypassed the router and shutoff the firewall to no avail.
Oh well, back to the tried and true...
Take care,
Kurt
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