FC4 Torrent Slow? Or, is it just me?

[chuck clark]

it does seem a bit slow,60-80kb/s compared to the 900kb/s speed i had
downloading knoppix the other day.

On 6/13/05, Jan Visser <jan.visser at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > On 6/13/05, Jan Visser <jan.visser at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> >
> >>Kenneth Porter wrote:
> >>
> >>>--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.)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Well mine is not fast either. My share ratio is 1.80 so that shouldn't
> >>be any problem. Anyway tommorow will be a nice day :D
> >>
> >
> >
> > 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
> 
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