bittorrent slow

[Guy Fraser]

On Tue, 2006-21-03 at 15:04 -0500, jim lawrence wrote:
> On 3/21/06, Mariano López Reta <mlreta at alternativagratis.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:48 -0500, sean wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Another user complained of 1.5k/s to 2.5k/s speeds which clearly
> > > doesn't have to do with rate limiting by the ISP and again suggests
> > > that bittorrent/firewall/router configuration is needed.
> > >
> >
> > Sean: that would be me.
> >
> > Let's see: firewall disabled (I know, I know...), ADSL router with NAT
> > on SUA only, ports opened (Bittorrent-gui says "Running normally" -
> > otherwise it would say "Firewalled" or something like that). And my
> > average performance is 2 to 3 Kbps with peak performance being 9 to 10
> > Kbps on download and upload averaging 8 to 10 with peaks of 15. I don't
> > know of any other configuration I might tweak. This performance is
> > consistent with my standard ftp or http performance. So, I see no
> > advantage in using torrents. That's my point.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents,
> >
> >
> 
> 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

Your ISP is doing Layer 4 filtering/throttling. Get Azureus and enable 
Transport Encryption.