Sean Black

In article <5bj2fuF2semk9U1@mid.individual.net>, Zomoniac
<the_proper_one@hotmail.com> writes
>On 2007-05-23 15:42:07 +0100, "Diablos Rojos" <M.B.@tiscali.co.uk> said:
>
>> "Zomoniac" <the_proper_one@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:5biu6hF2rsal0U1@mid.individual.net...
>>> How do I get more seedage? I've got everything set up fine, ports
>>>are open on router, it's downloading at a paltry 30k on an 8MB
>>>fastish connection (get HTTP downloads at 700-800k), which I'm
>>>putting down to the fact that I'm picking up from one seed,
>>>occasionally 2, out of an available 588. It's been going for over an
>>>hour. What am I doing wrong? Same thing happens with Azureus (what
>>>I'm currently using), uTorrent and Acquisition.
>>> --
>>> Zo
>>>
>> Could be any number of things but one thing to check is your upload
>>speed is not set to unlimited, I have mine set to about 15kbs upload
>>otherwise it kills your download speeds completely.
>
>Well I have a green smiley man, so it's not NAT, and I've just set my
>upload speed is set to 30k which has bumped my DL up to about 70-80,
>but that's still 1/10th my HTTP speed. Why is it only connecting to 1
>seed from 616??
>

Are you allowing enough connections? In Utorrent you can adjust the
number of connections you allow.

When I'm downloading stuff, if there are a lot of seeds and peers, it
only tends to connect to a small number of seeds but a lot of peers.

You could try stopping and starting the torrent, sometimes that makes a
difference.
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Sean Black