bittorrent slow

[Knute Johnson]

>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.

Thanks for the suggestion Tony.  My download finished before I could 
try your suggestion but I will next time.  Also, after the download 
stopped, my upload went to 58KB/sec.  I have no idea what it means 
though.

-- 
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...