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Saturday, June 25, 2005

BitTorrent: A more appropriate name would be BitTrickle.

achitnis — Jun 25, 2005 11:45:52 AM — # ↩

Hmmm? Every torrent takes time to pick up speed - but it also depends on the seeders.

I typically get a completely saturated 384 kbps link when I download using BT.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jun 25, 2005 11:52:33 AM — # ↩
  
  I've never had such luck. Rarely over 3 kB/s, and for a less popular download, maybe 50 bytes per second.
  - brainz — Jun 25, 2005 12:15:29 PM — # ↩
    
    Maybe your ISP is throttling the BitTorrent specific ports, try changing them.
    - ashwinne — Jun 26, 2005 12:38:08 PM — # ↩
      
      True. My Sify Broadband guy first throttled my eMule connections. Later he closed those ports itself. Now, I'm using Bittorrent instead.
  - kingsly — Jun 25, 2005 2:28:24 PM — # ↩
    
    If you are behind a NAT you need to forward the specific ports to the machine you are running BT on.
  - madhav — Jun 25, 2005 7:15:34 PM — # ↩
    
    I've seen speeds up to 32 kB/s (dowlonad) on my 256kbps DataOne connection! Guess it depeds on the ISP and maybe even the area.
  - praveenkumarg — Jun 25, 2005 7:27:26 PM — # ↩
    
    Yeah neither mes lucky in this .. always gets lesser speeds
- tariquesani — Jun 25, 2005 12:42:03 PM — # ↩
  
  I agree 100% for popular download the link rapidly gets saturated - for less popular downloads I depended on Kaaza but that has been blocked by my ISP now - or rather he fiddled with something and Kaaza no longer works and he does not know what went wrong!!
thegindrinker — Jun 25, 2005 1:06:34 PM — # ↩

It all depends on what you download, where you download from, and your ISP. I've got speeds of 1kbps to 300+kbps.
latelyontime — Jun 25, 2005 1:45:29 PM — # ↩

i think I prefer p2p as well..I have been fiddling with bit torrent the last few days but p2p has always worked faster for me.
- appaji — Jun 25, 2005 3:55:33 PM — # ↩
  
  Isn't bt p2p?
  - latelyontime — Jun 26, 2005 7:01:55 PM — # ↩
    
    my bad...I meant that in the bittorrent introduction it says that it is different from p2p softwares like Ares or Kazaa....the latter being my preferred engines.
Anonymous — Jun 25, 2005 4:24:04 PM — # ↩

Forward your ports Luke...
'Allo.

I use BT on both a DataOne and an Airtel DSL connection. On the Airtel connection, as it is a USB modem, BT works out of the box.

On the DataOne, you need to set up port forwarding for BT to *really* work. And it does!

Try http://www.portforward.com for your specific router. Oh, and use Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ as your client. It fair rocks! Makes sure you have Java 1.5 too...

Parting words...Google is your friend.