On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:31 -0500, sean wrote: > The biggest problem is usually that your upstream speed is limited which > will severely reduce your download speed (1). One common cause is having > local firewall (iptables) rules active. Another is having a router > (linksys etc.) which hasn't been configured to allow bittorrent > connections (2). I would venture to say that a combination of these factors is responsible for most cases of poor performance, even more so that ISP traffic shaping. There's plenty of clueless people out there who are behind a broadband router that's doing NAT, the router has no protocol helper for BitTorrent and does not forward the BitTorrent ports to the correct machine behind it - as a result of course the download speed is very low, yet people complain about BitTorrent per se. lol :-) Saying "BitTorrent sucks" has a pretty high probability of being equivalent to "my computer/networking skills suck". > 2 http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm gives a pretty decent walk through > to help you configure your router properly That document should be linked on the Fedora BitTorrent page at duke.edu -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
