bikerdude on 5/10/2008 at 18:37
Evening
Digi and myself are trying to set-up a bittorent download for the missionX 113 updates and we have managed to get it working - sorta.
my main issue is the I can see connections being made, but the downloads only last a few seconds. Now that said someone manage a sustained 30-60min download at my full upload bandwidth. I cant tell if it was via DHT or the tracker.
Im using the latest beta of uTorrent(1.8 b-11564) and I have setup 7 seeds and Im using both DHT, Open tracker((
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce)), local peer exchange and local peer discovery(only for these files). I only have a couple of seed/peers - would this be the reason there is so little activity..? I thought if I am seeding people should be able to get a good rate just from me..? This is where my knowledge of torrenting falls down.
What I need is to chat to someone who knows more about bittorents than I do (googling hasn't been very helpful thus far).
thanks
biker
Ladron De La Noche on 5/10/2008 at 19:25
Bikerdude, its possible your ISP is limiting your upload speed across P2P. As has been the case here with certain ISPs in USA. Usually changing the default port of 6881 to a random number (I usually change it between 49152-65535) and having protocal encryption "enabled" or "forced". Check your firewall so that uTorrent can access the 'net also your router. Ports.
Set Max. upload rate to = 0 or "Unlimited" in lower right window area (right click).
My knowledge on uploading torrents is limited as it pertains to the tracker since I've never attempted it, just downloading and sharing. Hope it helps, good luck. :)
bikerdude on 5/10/2008 at 20:12
Quote Posted by Ladron De La Noche
Bikerdude, its possible your ISP is limiting your upload speed across P2P. As has been the case here with certain ISPs in USA. Usually changing the default port of 6881 to a random number (I usually change it between 49152-65535) and having protocal encryption "enabled" or "forced". Check your firewall so that uTorrent can access the 'net also your router. Ports.
Set Max. upload rate to = 0 or "Unlimited" in lower right window area (right click).
My knowledge on uploading torrents is limited as it pertains to the tracker since I've never attempted it, just downloading and sharing. Hope it helps, good luck. :)
Hi Ladron
Already did/checked the above. On torrents I have downloaded they seed just fine and that's even with less dubious files as well, so my isp isn't throttling me at all.
The problem I have is with regard to seeding - I'm beginning to think its because there aren't enough people seeding these files also.
biker
Ladron De La Noche on 6/10/2008 at 02:47
Attempting to download some of the smaller files on your torrents. I connected to someone in Germany and grabbed two files (20mb and 5mb) at around 15kbps, completed. The third file I attempted doesn't seem to download at all, its been running for a few hours and only 2.5% done out of 49.6mb. ETA 2 days to completion. :p Uploading fine on my end as others connect to me. Trackers seem fine. No worries, its a learning process. :)
