why is my download so slow i have broadband

[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....

[stos289]

Your correct with the firewall removal process. However, I think you were doing port triggering instead of port forwarding. When you are in the advanced tab of the router page, you should have gone to "Firewall" on the left hand side. Then you should have looked at the example I gave you and filled in the blanks accordingly. If you did that, you should be fine. I think that you were in "Virtual Server" instead of "Firewall." Also, you can port trigger 6969 if you want, that is the tracker port for Bittorrent. Hope I could help.

[jamoogabooga]

o....dun wry...i did it right the first time....i configured my firewall on the advanced panel of the router and also the virtual server thingie....cause on ur example, u had sum different stuff about ur virtual server, so i just copied that....and that is why i needed the trigger port 6969.....o...and thank u soooooo frikin much! man...my dl used to go around 3-15 kb....now (if there is at least 1 seed) it goes around 30-80 [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]