On Tue, 2006-21-03 at 15:04 -0500, jim lawrence wrote: > On 3/21/06, Mariano López Reta <mlreta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:48 -0500, sean wrote: > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > Sean: that would be me. > > > > Let's see: firewall disabled (I know, I know...), ADSL router with NAT > > on SUA only, ports opened (Bittorrent-gui says "Running normally" - > > otherwise it would say "Firewalled" or something like that). And my > > average performance is 2 to 3 Kbps with peak performance being 9 to 10 > > Kbps on download and upload averaging 8 to 10 with peaks of 15. I don't > > know of any other configuration I might tweak. This performance is > > consistent with my standard ftp or http performance. So, I see no > > advantage in using torrents. That's my point. > > > > Just my 2 cents, > > > > > > I agree BT has been nothing but slow for me as well. I have even gone > as far as connecting my PC directly to my cable modem bypassing my > router. Same results Poor dl speed and High upload speeds Your ISP is doing Layer 4 filtering/throttling. Get Azureus and enable Transport Encryption.
