OT: BitTorrent seeds

On 23 May, 14:34, Zomoniac <the_proper_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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

not a great expert in this but seem to recall people moaning about
latest versions of torrent software having problems with UPnP protocol
or what ever the right word is. even when I opened the ports the
torrent software logger says it cannot open it. Also some ISP limit
torrent traffic so you need to encrypt the data via an option in
utorrent.

I am at work so can't link to relevant pages but sure if you put in
google Azereus and Slow downloads and UPnP it will start you on right
track.

I was using Azureus which did seem to slow down when I went from 1/2
meg adsl to 2meg cable which was frustrating, went to utorrent and got
same issue - went to old version of utorrent after reading forums and
now am at top speed - however I do tend to focus on just one download
at a time now and haven't downloaded anything for a while.

Obviously it could be that the uploaders are severly limitying their
bandwidth but with the numbers suggested I doubt it.

Additionally I don't know if these programmes have introduced limits
unless your ratio is at certain value but I have not really heard much
on this.

Again I stress I am no expert in this area and am sure someone will be
along in a minute with a more professional response.

Good Luck

Cheers

K