Do you have any specific questions? It works pretty well "out of the box," so to speak. I always set my connections to unlimited. Also, make sure you upload as much as possible (not to the point of choking your connection) as that greatly helps your download speeds....
The only modifications I make to Azureus include: Default Save Path and Upload Rate (depending on whether or not I'll be browsing the web at the same time.)
What you couldnt find anything bigger to download?
There is always something bigger to download.
And I have no problems running Azureus on a NATed workstation. Blazing fast for me -- so long as I keep my upload high and play nice with the other children by sharing my toys.
What you couldnt find anything bigger to download?
Does AZ have speed issues while NATed? Every client I have tried lately seems to be extremely slow unless on the DMZ.[/QUOTE/]
Hey all,
I'm new to bittorrent and am experiencing slow download speeds. I am behind a router, but I have forwarded the ports I am using and I'm even tried DMZing IP address. I have increased the max uploads and max upload rate, but it seems to have only increased the upload rate, not my download rates. I am using azureus and my total speed is really high, usually in the hundreds of KB/s, but my download rates are around 5 KB/s. Any suggestions?
Total speed is irrelevant. That's the aggregate speed of all the peers, you need to be actually connect to them though. That includes waiting, sharing as much as your bandwidth will permit you, and being patient.
The biggest thing you have to do is CHANGE YOUR PORTS TO THE HIGH 40,000s. I cannot stress that enough. ISPs throttle the **** out of traditional BT ports.
If you're using a client with a port range, use 65000 - 65100. Or just use any port 40000-65535 with Azureus.
Also port-forwarding has never worked properly for me. If I DMZ my computer, my downloads are significantly faster. Keep the max upload clients to (your upload bandwidth / (client count here) = 8-10). IF you're uploading at 50kb/s, max uploads to 10 or 11.
Keep your upload speed to MAX - 8. Keep your download speed as fast as possible.
robby
Olympia, WA New
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Upload/seed as much as you can, don't be a stinge with your upload bandwidth.. and pick torrents with a decent amount of peers/seeds.
There isn't much to tweaking AZ as it's already pretty much optimized out of the box
The only modifications I make to Azureus include: Default Save Path and Upload Rate (depending on whether or not I'll be browsing the web at the same time.)
What you couldnt find anything bigger to download?
Does AZ have speed issues while NATed? Every client I have tried lately seems to be extremely slow unless on the DMZ.
There is always something bigger to download.
And I have no problems running Azureus on a NATed workstation. Blazing fast for me -- so long as I keep my upload high and play nice with the other children by sharing my toys.
Clllllllllose, but no cigar!
The biggest thing you have to do is CHANGE YOUR PORTS TO THE HIGH 40,000s. I cannot stress that enough. ISPs throttle the **** out of traditional BT ports.
If you're using a client with a port range, use 65000 - 65100. Or just use any port 40000-65535 with Azureus.
Also port-forwarding has never worked properly for me. If I DMZ my computer, my downloads are significantly faster. Keep the max upload clients to (your upload bandwidth / (client count here) = 8-10). IF you're uploading at 50kb/s, max uploads to 10 or 11.
Keep your upload speed to MAX - 8. Keep your download speed as fast as possible.