zoink Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I have osx86 10.4.6 installed on my laptop. My roommate has a macbook with osx (idk what version). Both of us are having problems with torrent downloads being very slow. We have tried azureus, tomato torrent, and bittorrent clients and the same thing happens. I know i have a good connection because i download at 500ish kb/s in my browser, but we cant get above 10kb/s using torrents. I use torrents all the time on my windows installation and get between 20kb/s and 400kb/s. Any idea whats going on? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26904-slow-torrents/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
np101137 Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Are the correct ports open... If not search google on how to do that... Also, does the torrent have a large number of seeds, and a good amount of peers... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26904-slow-torrents/#findComment-182896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoink Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 I will look into the port issue, i don't see why they would be closed...i am getting some connetction, but maybe not all of them are open. Yes there is a decent amount of seeds and peers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26904-slow-torrents/#findComment-182951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart86 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Even when the ports are open you can get lots of stops and starts if you don't have port forwarding on your router enabled for the port you are using. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/73686 Old article but still relevant. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26904-slow-torrents/#findComment-184024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Heck the firewall on the mac is configured right. If it's switched on then create a custom rule for allowing bit torrent ports through and make sure your router forwards the ports to your machine. I get about 100K on tomato torrent if there are a decent number of peers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26904-slow-torrents/#findComment-184154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mofo-X Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Greetings, Bare in mind if you are using Azurueus for sure, or any client which utilizes uPNP, thay you DO NOT manually setup the port forware in your router. You will run into all sorts of interesting things doing so. I would suggest re-launching azureus, see which port it picked by uPNP and do the Connection NAT test under the Azureus menu. Regards, {censored}-X PS I would also recommend atleast trying to download a torrent from the green demon or TPB which has A LOT of seeders and see if the speed increases, to see if one of your slowdowns is that you are operating on DHT, for testing purposes disable de-centralized tracking. And make sure you did not set your upload to high. Try lowering it and see if speed increases. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26904-slow-torrents/#findComment-184219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacmanMCE Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I post my reply here, because I don't want to register at the linked forum: I'm currently downloading Mac OS X86 with Opera 9 and for me forwarding to port 18768 helped a lot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26904-slow-torrents/#findComment-184344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrc Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 I had the same problems whith those clients but then i tried bitsinwheels and it work good Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26904-slow-torrents/#findComment-190291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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