bittorrent slow

[sean]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:04:30 -0500
"jim lawrence" <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree  BT has been nothing but slow for me as well. I have even gone
> as far as connecting my PC directly to my cable modem bypassing my
> router.  Same results  Poor dl speed and High upload speeds

Hi Jim,

Don't know the specifics of your situation, however you may be hitting
a problem caused by upload speeds that are too high.  If you saturate
your uplink by filling requests by other swarm members, the 
acknowledgment packets that need to be sent to keep your download 
humming get delayed and end up reducing your download speed.

Bittorrent clients let you rate limit your upload speed to avoid 
this problem.  Setting it to 60% to 80% of the total uplink speed 
provided to you by your ISP usually gives best results.   

Sean