BitTorrent: I keep loosing peers/seeds...

Post by **KingManULTRA** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:59 pm

My speeds go down enormously after a couple of hours. If I restart the download, there are twice as many peers and seeds as there were previously.

Possible reasons for this...?

6881-6999 forwarded. BitTornado.

Post by **DiscoDave** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:02 pm

That's a weird symptom.... I dont know about your part of the world but over here ISP's are really cracking down on P2P stuff. We're limited now and they throttle ports and such.

Other than that it could be a dodgey tracker, does it time out from time to time?

Post by **KingManULTRA** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:04 pm

This is the case for any trackers. No tracker timeouts.

Post by **shadd_** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:05 pm

try a new client first. i suggest Utorrent.

Post by **BlueGene** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:54 pm

uTorrent owns.

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Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:56 pm

sick. thx bluegene

Post by **BlueGene** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:06 pm

np man.

Post by **KingManULTRA** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:02 pm

shadd_ wrote:try a new client first. i suggest Utorrent.

My download speed is now 10 times as fast. Wow.

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:07 am

Most clients have a rather week server seed/ratio implementation. In essence it won't really apply the right numbers towards your contribution, hence you get slower speeds. Not always, but a lot of the times.

uTorrent and Azureus are mostly an exception to this. I get good speeds with both.

Also, try using a custom port number, the 6881-6999 range is frequently blacklisted by several sites/trackers and maybe even isps, hence giving a bad performance.

Post by **BlueGene** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:32 am

Certain clients also get banned from trackers, like BitComet.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:26 am

bitcomet gets banned from trackers?

wth?

Post by **Foo** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:29 am

Bitcomet is banned from some trackers due to certain versions lying about the clients upload/download ratios.
Bitorrent's bigger weakness lies in client-side reporting of usage statistics.

This matters to trackers which enforce down/up ratiosm such as empornium.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:38 am

banned from trackers mayhap?
get a better upload ratio while youre at it