why is my download so slow i have broadband

[jamoogabooga]

hey, i have just one question about that....when i went to the firewall config to make it look exactly like urs, i saw that ur ip was the same as mine.... mine is: 192.168.0.100

wut does this mean?.........o and after doin all of this, how fast do your downloads go when downloading anime?.......

o...and also, i was downloading an anime file (koi kaze) from anime station at the same time as doin this process.....after i finished, the download was still the same slow speed.....do i have to restart the comp for the changes to take into effect?....or am i just doomed to dl at slow speeds no matter wut the changes?

[stos289]

Ok, let's start. For the ip address, it will naturally be the same since we have the same router. It doesn't matter though, I just tolf you to put yours if you had a different one for some reason. When I'm downloading anime, it depends on how many people are seeding it and how big the file ia. Lets say I'm downloading an anime with 20 people seeding it, and it is a single episode. It will take probably around 30 minutes to an 1 hour. Well, the speed increase should take affect after you made the change to your router. So, you might want to reebot, just in case. Also, to really see the increase, wait untill like 1 mb is downloaded. That is when i usually see the download rate sky rocket. Hope I could help.

[jamoogabooga]

hmm.....i see now.....i have another question......what if you had 8 seeds and 8 peers and the file is 130 mb.....would ur dl go faster than 20 or 30?.......btw.....thanks a whole bunch! youve really been great and my speed did go up when i restarted......thanks a lot man......

[stos289]

Well, I don't believe it would go faster. You see, the more seeders, the higher the download rate. It all depends on the size of the file, the seeders, and the upload rate too. So, most likely, it won't go faster. Glad I could help.

[jamoogabooga]

o....i have anotehr question....[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]......when u dl anime, have u ever got a slow dl speed like around 5-10 kb per sec?......cause when i was dling koi kaze from anime station, i got around 20-50 kb with about 7-10 seeds.....(130 mb file size)...now, im dling midori no hibi from suprnova.org and there is 2 seeds but im gettin helllla slow dl speed (3-8 kb).....its about 175 mb....is it slow cause of the #of seeds? or cause i still may have firewall or other setting probs?

[stos289]

Yeah, it happens sometimes. Especially in your case when you only have 2 seeds, that's really not a lot. Just make sure that you have all the ports forwarded and your XP Firewall is off and you shouldn't have any other configuration to do. Hope I could help.

[jamoogabooga]

hey, just makin sure....to turn off ur firewall if u have xp, first u go to start, then network places, then view network connections, then right click to get properties for the enabled lan connection, then go to advanced and uncheck the firewall box right?......if not, how do i turn it completely off, and how do i know if it is off or not?

....o also, when i configured the router, i put in port#6969 since i think that was the trigger port and since it asked for only 1 port #, then i put 6881-6999 for the public....is that the correct thing to do? and i really appreciate ur step by step help since im such a comp newb....