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According to my understanding of BitTorrent, the client needs to be able to accept incoming connections as well as outgoing ones. See for example Brian's BitTorrent FAQ and Guide.

Also, we use a proxy server for outgoing requests from all of our teaching labs, and we have no trouble downloading stuff. The proxy server is perfectly capable of keeping up with our internet connection. It's not as though it has to do any hard work, all it does is relay data from an incoming TCP connection to an outgoing one.

You may want to try something called "Persistent Port Forwarding" by Microsoft, while my Actiontec router just calls it "Port Forwarding" as they don't seem to have any "Application Triggered Port Forwarding", it has other names like all things in computers. Here is a FAQ about this issue. Here is a site with more information on port forwarding.

One other thing that can kill your download speed is that your upload speed is to high. Since the BitTorrent protocol uses TCP your computer needs to send back a packet saying that you received a packet. If it can't do this the other computer will keep on sending that packet over & over again until your computer tells it that you have it.

One Minor problem is that BitTorrent actually uses SHA not MD5 for it's hashing. Check out the following link for more information. http://dessent.net/btfaq/#hash-check

privoxy main objective is to filter ads and anoying things, but we can easilly setup a filter for one site that change its behavior, look and layaout...

check the slashdot theme changer

i already use it for a long time to correct some bad html code from some pages (mostly for dillo, a very small and fast web browser)

as it use regexp and we can setup to only apply to some urls, the possiblities are endless

You can configure the SP2 firewall to open the ports used by p2p programs, thus improving speed. BitTorrent, for example, will slow down dramatically if you are behind a firewall or are using NAT. If you are only using a firewall, free up TCP ports 6881-6999 for BitTorrent, and you will see an improvement. (The only problem, and I wonder who was the genius that designed it, is that you must specify each port individually instead of giving a range.) If you also have NAT, then you will need to give your computer a static IP address and also configure your router to perform IP forwarding. Note that this will preclude any other computer on the network from using those ports. There are more details here.

To configure the Windows Firewall ports, go to Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Exceptions.

That's . . . very, very odd. I've often been able to max out my bandwidth with torrents (though not nowadays, considering that I'm at the university residence . . . faster even than my prior aDSL, true, but if I let it go, I'd break my weekly download/upload limits damn quickly!). There are many things that could be going wrong. One of the problems often encountered, which is the most likely cause since I've seen similar same symptoms on many a computer, is your router. Part of the reason I've never had to care is 'cause I've eskewed routers; I hate them, I reallly do. But if you're using one, and getting crappy speeds using BitTorrent, this may very well be it, so just read up on the solution here. Hope that works for ya.

Well, just do a rain check. If it is pouring, rejoice, dance away!

Hmm, really? I couldn't find any more info on the project's page, I think I'll test it and see if it's true.

Anyway, if your comment is correct, then it doesn't offer anything new over BT in this regard, as BT already uses HTTP to connect to the tracker.

Here is a jpeg version (718x1151) of the ad, converted from the above PDF in the parent's post.

Great, so mozilla.org is slashdotted. Anyone got any info on the new features in this release or is it purely a bugfix?

Everyone jump on the torrent... (remember that if you didn't use bittorrent to download you can still seed for others - http://dessent.net/btfaq/#seeding)

http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#maketorrent

According to this Bittorrent FAQ, BT++ is "unstable" and "abandoned".

If you mean Bram's FAQ, then yes. But nobody ever accused him of being great with documentation. A much better FAQ is here.

If you're maxing out your upload, as you state that you are, you're likely not leaving enough room for the overhead that BT needs to request packets. You should use the command line options to limit the number of active uploads and upload rate to give yourself some leeway. If you set the max upload to a half or three-quarters of what your line can handle you ought to get much better downloads. This link would normally be of use, but it appears he's maxed his outbound for the month. In the mean time you can start here.

You can upload to others even though you haven't reached 100%. See the book example here:

http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#what

Mirror this if you object to the court decision!

Using the google cache (remove the keywords at the end of the above URL to get rid of the highlighting), I think we should keep this information online, to show how we feel about crap court decisions.

I have created a mirror: missvermont.dessent.net, please grab these files and mirror them if you agree. I will be forced to remove the contents if they are slashdotted, so please mirror!

-ololiuhqui

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Unless it's using the file you're downloading as data to send to others (like say you have 20% of it completed... other people request the file too, so your source file is used to fill their needs as well?)

This is correct. As soon as you download the first chunk of the file (256KB-1MB) you start uploading what you've downloaded so far to other clients. BitTorrent works on a file-per-file basis, unlike more traditional P2P apps.

You might find this page useful in explaining some things.

Read this: http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#freeze. You should use the drivers linked and NOT the latest from Linksys.

The BitTorrent FAQ and Guide site is rapidly becoming the main collection point for all information BitTorrent. If you have questions or curiosities, check it out.

Peaked at around 180 kb/s using BitTorrent. At the time I'm also seeding the Matrix reloaded telesync at around 20 kb/s, but not downloading much.

FYI, those of you for whom this is your first exposure to BitTorrent, you may be interested in the FAQ page that I've been working on. BT info seems to be sort of spread out all over the place and I'm trying to get contain it all at one spot.