I did unplug my router, and my speeds have improved a lot. Maybe the other settings I tweaked did something, but for now it's staying off. At least until my dad wants to go on the net with his machine.

 

How can you tweak BT? My BT GUI is just a bar with the percentage complete and whatever and a Cancel button, that's it...

 

I use a different client. ABC is good. keeps all your torrents in one neatly organized window. options that change upload caps, # of uploads, set directory for download, etc.

 

Where can I get that?

 

not sure. google it. that's how I got it. try "ABC Torrent"

 

me too.


i use shareaza as my client and it does me good. :dunno:

 

I just opened up about 9 more ports.

 

How dow I get it to download fast, I don't care if it's an average of 2 k/bs or 100kb/s, it can't take 6 days to download this one torrent file!

 

If you are using Microsoft's ICS (Internet Connection Sharing), this article on mapping ports might be useful.

If you are using a software firewall, then you must also enable incoming connections to be answered by the BitTorrent client program. Note that Windows XP includes a primitive firewall ("Internet Connection Firewall" or ICF) which you may have to configure for BitTorrent. Here are the directions for opening ports in the Windows XP firewall:

Open the 'Network Connections' folder (click Start, then Control Panel, then Network and Internet Connections, then Network Connections.)
Click the shared connection or the Internet connection that is protected by Internet Connection Firewall, and then, under Tasks, click Change settings of this connection.
On the Advanced tab, click Settings.
For each port you wish to forward, (i.e. 6881, 6882, ... 6999) do the following:


On the Services tab, click Add and enter all of the following information:
In Description of service, type an easily recognized name for the service, such as "BitTorrent".
In Name or IP address of the computer hosting this service on your network, enter 127.0.0.1 (this means "the local machine.")
In both External and Internal port number for this service, enter the port number, e.g. 6881.
Select TCP, then OK.
See this link or this link for more information about the XP firewall.

If you are running another type of software firewall (such as Zone Alarm Pro, Norton Firewall, McAfee Firewall, BlackICE Defender, etc.), you may have to do something similar to allow inbound access on ports 688x to the BitTorrent client (usually btdownloadgui.exe.)

For example, in Zone Alarm Pro, in the Program Listings, click on the program's name (btdownloadgui.exe) and then click the Options button and then enter the ports to use. If you're having trouble connecting, you might try giving BitTorrent access to all ports.

To open ports in the Mac OS X firewall, do the following:

Open System Preferences.
Click Sharing.
Select the Firewall tab.
Click the New... button.
Click the popup menu in the dialog that appears, and choose Other....
In the Port Number, Range, or Series field, enter 6881-6999.
In the Name field, enter BitTorrent (or any other identifying string.)
Click OK.

~forgot where i got that, but oh wells... there you go

 

mines say it takes 1w-6w depending on speed