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Born_2_Kill_83

Born_2_Kill_83

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Im currently downloading a large Torrent file which is just over 6GB.
Im 26% of the way and its taken 62 hours so far.
My question is surely theres got to be a faster way.
I understand that if there isnt many seeders then you get a slower download, I have 1Mbps Boardband but my average download speed is 8Kbps. Does anyone have any tips or programmes to speed the process up
Thanks
 
Is the tracker still up? What program are you using to download it? Are you using a router and got the port forwards set up properly? But like you said, it's more than likely down to the number of seeds
 
RichieUK said:
Is the tracker still up? What program are you using to download it? Are you using a router and got the port forwards set up properly? But like you said, it's more than likely down to the number of seeds
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Answers:
Trackers up
Using Bitlord 1.1 to download
Yes I am using a Router any ideas how it should be set up?
Cheers
 
You need to forward the port range 6881-6899 to the PC you are using a torrent client on and then obviously open these. They are standard ports for Bittorrent which all clients use.
 
Change to uTorrent (my personal opinion that one :) )
Set up port forwarding. Most likely go to 192.168.1.1 and log in with admin/admin (see manual for this)
Choose a different port to the default. Anything from 1100 ish to 65536, forward that port, both tcp and udp
Set your upload limit to about 90% of your maximum upload speed, eg with a max of 43 or so I use about 38KB/s
Give it time, it can be slow to get going sometimes
 
Bittorrent has a Listening port (which you specify) and also standard ports. You can open whatever range you want but 6881 is required for best performance from any client.
 
have you considered that you may be traffic shaped?

enable encryption and try personaly i generally use 50% of my max upload maximum and more often less than that 12k out of 32max

you amy just be downloading a slow torrent though
 
I am downloading a 4GB file, of which 33% has downloaded so far in 13 days (not constantly). I have found that it goes faster at certain times of the day, usually around 1am-8am. This may also be the case for the file you are downloading.
 
Not that helpful to you now I know but it might be worth your time using newsgroups instead.

Pretty much anything you can get as a torrent you can find on newsgroups. It's a small monthly fee to use giganews or astraweb (or one of the many other sites) but the advantage of always maxing out your connection far outweighs this.

I downloaded the full Everquest client (6Gig) in around 2 hours. And was playing the game 15 minutes later. Well worth the fee imho.
 
Andy100 said:
Not that helpful to you now I know but it might be worth your time using newsgroups instead.

Pretty much anything you can get as a torrent you can find on newsgroups. It's a small monthly fee to use giganews or astraweb (or one of the many other sites) but the advantage of always maxing out your connection far outweighs this.

I downloaded the full Everquest client (6Gig) in around 2 hours. And was playing the game 15 minutes later. Well worth the fee imho.
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Slight thread hijack...but is there any good index sites to download nzbs from? I've looked around but none look that comprehensive.
 
i have one 21gb torrent on the go at the moment. it's taken 4 days to get to 62%. that's mainly due to BT throttling torrents, the gits. i have a monthtly cap so why can't i choose how to use it. :mad: :D
 
If I have uPnP on do I need to do any port forwarding, I've found torrents will run at full speed but if I have Limewire on and it says 'awaiting connection' on something I'm downloading all websites on my computer go slow, would port forwarding help this or is just because Limewire is trying hard to connect to something?
 
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