i’m downloading a torrent at about 40kB but i normally dl 100+. i’m using mcafee, windows xp firewall is disabled, with bitcomet as an exception, and no router. i’ve gone through the settings guide and did the speed tests and capped my upload at 32. i’m on a college campus, but neither the college nor the isp is throttling(i dl a torrent earlier in the week and it was downloading at about 220+). I have no idea why this torrent is going so slow. its health is 3833%. Could it just be the other peers running too many torrents? or does anyone else have any other ideas? The only thing i noticed was when i was messing around with mcafee, in the events log, it said it was blocking ip addresses because they were trying to connect with NETBIOS. so i tried changing the setting to trust all local ip addresses, it didn’t help. so could this be part of the problem or am i way off base?
Most of the factors that affect download speed are beyond your control. If you are able to download quickly, you’ve done all that you can do, and some torrents will be much slower. This has to do with the peers you’re connected to, and their network connections/upload speeds.
That’s still a pretty good pace, so sometimes you just have to endure the wait.
yeah it was just being slow on its own, it ended up downloading at 260 for a while, until staying steady around 120.
The only thing i noticed was when i was messing around with mcafee, in the events log, it said it was blocking ip addresses because they were trying to connect with NETBIOS. so i tried changing the setting to trust all local ip addresses, it didn’t help.
Dont do that especially since your on a college LAN. There are so many college kids with nothing better to do than try to hack into unsecured boxes and by trusting LAN connections your making it all the more easier for them. At my college is see tons of NETBIOS hits in my firewall log which are mostly just Windows automatically searching for LAN shares but you never know somebody in the computer science department may be looking for unpatched/unsecured boxes that he/she can exploit.