FC4 Torrent Slow? Or, is it just me?

[Kurt Hansen]

>>>>>--On Monday, June 13, 2005 2:44 PM -0400 Kurt Hansen
>>>>><khansen at charityweb.net> wrote:
>>>>>>I'm trying to download the iso's for FC4, but they are coming down
>>>>>>awfully slowly.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Can others reach your listening ports? Check that your firewall allows
>>>>>the connection and, you're behind a NAT router, that the ports get
>>>>>forwarded to your host.
>>>>>
>>>>>If others can't reach your listening ports, then the only traffic you
>>>>>get is from peers you've connected to, which will artificially limit the
>>>>>size of the swarm you can reach. (Some other peers will be behind NAT
>>>>>routers that you can't reach, because they didn't' forward ports, and
>>>>>those sources will be unavailable to you unless they contact you first.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I was getting the same speeds you are experiencing until I changed
>>>from Bittorrent to Azureus and checked the Azureus FAQ regarding the
>>>yellow status icon. Found that I need to change the UPnP setting on my
>>>router. If you are using a router with NAT enabled make sure that UPnP
>>>is enabled.  Instead of 6-20 kB/sec I am now observing 200-220 kB/sec.
>>>
>>
>>I am using Azureus, and that port is open. So thats not it. Anyway it's
>>up to 70 kb/s and my max is 80 so that's good.
>>
>>ETA 8h 36m

Thanks for all your help. I tried Azureus, port forwarding, port 
triggering, and UPnP, and nothing worked. I'm running out of tech terms 
to try.

I'm beginning to think there is a bug in my wireless router -- Netgear 
WGT624 -- or my ISP is blocking the port. I've bypassed the router and 
shutoff the firewall to no avail.

Oh well, back to the tried and true...

Take care,

Kurt
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