slow torrent, tracker reports many seeds

[invictius]

The tracker is reporting over 100 seeders, however my torrent ap is showing 0, and only 12 peers. If I upload at 7 KB, I can get down 3 KB, which is pretty useless. Is it because of my area or something, not being able to access all those seeders?

[don256us]

I suspect that you've maxed out your upload which in turn handicaps your download. Limit your TOTAL upload for all apps/machines to 80% of your upload bandwidth and you'll see an increase in your download speed.

[=ACID RAIN=]

You did forward your port, right?

[meionm]

You need port forwarding on your router working and make sure if you have firewall it is not blocking your torrents

[invictius]

Port forwarding, check

Upload speed is 3 KB compared to a maximum of 12. It was really weird, I was getting along at 20 KB/s, then when I had to restart, its moving at all!

[Mr.Guvernment]

could be that pther people arent seeding fast, more people dont on public torrent sites, they cap their upload to nothing so they can download faster, welcome to the world of torrents.

also your ISP could be filtering P2P traffic, who is your ISP?

[invictius]

also your ISP could be filtering P2P traffic, who is your ISP?

It's not really much point telling since I live far, far away. Filtering P2P traffic isn't very common here at all, the only person I know being subject to that rule is on broadband (which runs at dialup speeds, ugh) using cell phone towers.

[Hitbox]

It's not really much point telling since I live far, far away. Filtering P2P traffic isn't very common here at all, the only person I know being subject to that rule is on broadband (which runs at dialup speeds, ugh) using cell phone towers.

So which ISP are you using?
And describe your home network setup, please.

[Mr.Guvernment]

It's not really much point telling since I live far, far away. Filtering P2P traffic isn't very common here at all, the only person I know being subject to that rule is on broadband (which runs at dialup speeds, ugh) using cell phone towers.

doesn't matter where you are if an ISP can filter it to save bandwidth, they will, period.

[jivetrky]

doesn't matter where you are if an ISP can filter it to save bandwidth, they will, period.

Didn't the FCC chastise Comcast because they were doing this? I would think that would make anyone else have to stop too. :shrug: (BTW, Comcast no longer does filter P2P traffic, but I've heard they are testing ideas like, during peak times, trottling bandwidth of users that use a ton of bandwidth [which seems fair to me])

BTW, I use Comcast and am not being limited for torrent speed.

[Mr.Guvernment]

Yes, they are currently working with comcast - but will anything really change is the question, apparently there will be no fines or anything..

so whats the FCC going to somehow get access to comcast to monitor their systems for this?

to me it inst fair to throttle someone's speed they paid for, speeds THEY advertised and sold you...

so because user A is actually using what they paid for, vs user B checking an email once a day.. user A should suffer because "ISP Dumb Arse" oversold their back ending hoping people would not use what they paid for and everyone was a B user.

Perhaps Comcast turned off the filtering now because of the FCC, but i know Roger's Canada is filtering like no tomorrow!

one thing i had heard was some ISP's set aside X bandwidth for X protocol, so say P2P they get 5MB total for all users in X area.....so the more people using X protocol the slower the speeds will go...

[rallyfan1986]

to me it inst fair to throttle someone's speed they paid for, speeds THEY advertised and sold you...

its the old 'up to' statement, so as long as they sometimes offer the maximum speed they can throttle to any speed they want

[Mr.Guvernment]

ya, but "purposely" throttling with the assumption you are only breaking the law so lets treat you like a criminal cause your actually using your bandwidth..

wait until they start to throttle media sites (like comcast had mentioned), wait until they start to throttle high content delivery sites that are all legit and people pay for... ya, then it will be all hell to break looose and those who say p2p user deserve it, will see what it is like.

[Hitbox]

Before this veers off topic, is the OP still having issues?