bittorrent slow

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:17 PM -0800 3/22/06, Knute Johnson wrote:
>I could sure use some suggestions to improve my Bittorrent
>performance.  I have 9881-9889 forwarded in my router.  My ISP
>throttles the high ports but only to 256kbit.  I'm running Bittorrent
>4.4.1 on a WinXP machine and I'm only getting 10KB/sec up and around
>14KB/sec down.  It has been downloading the bordeaux-binary-i386 for
>two days now and still has 13 hours to go.  When I first started it
>on Monday it was running about twice as fast but after a few hours
>slowed to what it is doing now.

FWIW, have you tried stopping the download and starting it again?  Just
re-issue the command and it will pick up where it left off.  Maybe you'll
get a different part of the torrent.
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