bittorrent slow

[Elliot Lee]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Temlakos wrote:

> And right now--this instant, 2:40 p.m. EST (that's 19:40 UTC)--someone 
> has joined the torrent and is uploading to me at faster than 200 KB/s. 
> And that's just /one/ seed. (Well, maybe it's because I published a new 
> regulation to my Linksys Wireless Router WRT-54G, telling it to allow 
> "bittorrent" access to ports 6881 through 6889 to a machine having a 
> static IP address. True? Hard to say.)

Fixing up port forwarding to allow incoming connections is the single best
thing you can do to improve BT performances. So yes, I'd guess that is
part of it :-)

Best,
-- Elliot