Turning off the firewall…
Installing on different partitions…
Counting seeds… running on different ports …
Somebody should suggest he try waiting for the right phase of the moon next!
He’s got a blocked listen port. When he runs µtorrent on one port and BC on another, he screws up the test.
I’m not gonna try talking the touchy SOB through it. THere’s no arcane problem here, just an unwillingness to read and learn.
Thanks for your thoughts- i would like to get to the bottom of this but I am a bit concerned that I may not have sufficient tech know-how to create a live windows CD - but willing to try.
The other suggestion mentioned was to create a partition on my HDD and run the program from there. However, I dont know how to do this. I have tried XP Disk Manager but this wont allow me to create a partition on my HDD. I have also tried Easeus Partition Master professional and this also wont allow me to create a partition. From what I can gather, in order to create a partition on a HDD that already has an OS installed or has data on it cannot be partitioned unless you re-format it.(??) Somebody else has suggested using Acronis Disk Director.
Any help on this would be appreciated.
You can use Paragon Partition Manager or Symantec Partition Magic (there are others of course, I just used these more). Acronis is known to be good as well. They don’t need to re-format your drive.
If you only have a single primary partition (with the OS installed on it) you’ll have to use the “DOS mode” or whatever equivalent the program you’ll use has. That is, the program needs to restart your PC and boot an minimal OS image on which a minimal special created version of the application can run (with graphical interface as well).
From there you’ll be able to repartition your disk (granted you have enough free space on the HDD). You’ll need to resize the actual partition and in the free space resulted you’ll create another new one. There is always a possibility that something will go wrong, therefore a backup of the OS and all important files, is mandatory.
I won’t even mention now that running the OS on the same partition you use for data storage is a not very smart idea.
OTOH if you have a different partition which you use for data storage then it’s a lot simpler. All you’ll need to to is resize the partition, then in the free space created you can create a new primary partition on which you’ll install the OS. But you might need a boot manager installed as well, if you want to be able to switch between the two OS-es. I can’t remember if XP updates the boot files for all the installed copies of Windows so that you won’t need a third party bootmanager.
But you’ll be able to do all this running the program from Windows, without rebooting in “DOS-mode” if you work on partitions others than the current system partiotion.
If you’re not very comfortable with this and don’t feel like experimenting, the other solution I suggested might be easier.
There are tons of tutorials on the net for creating a Live XP CD. Look what Google returns for “how to create live xp cd”.
I would agree with you kluelos, except if you check the screenshots he posted you’ll see that he has a green status light, the Statistics tab shows both the TCP and UDP ports as being open and the Peers tab shows a ton of Remote peers.
Therefore this doesn’t look like a blocked port case at all.
I couldn’t help noticing that he has almost only uTorrent peers and my first drive was to think that maybe uTorrent’s last versions may try to hinder BitComet as a client. But then after he gave us the links to the torrents (that’s the main reason why I asked for them) I’ve seen speeds at the top of my connection’s capabilities, therefore there can’t be talk of foul play from uTorrent’s side.
That’s why I feel a bit at loss here, and I reckon it can only be his system or installed applications running wild with BitComet. Because it’s not Vista or Win 7 but XP, and on XP I’ve never had any issues of this type with BitComet.
I just wanted to make sure that you know the reason for creating a new partition isn’t just to run bitcomet from it, you will need to install windows in this new partition and boot to this newly installed windows in order for the test to be valid.
I think it’s always a good idea to have at least two versions of windows running on a PC. This allows you to use one to fix the other, and gives you a quick way to get your computer booted up if your operating system becomes unusable for whatever reasons, but what I think your going to find is that bitcomet runs well on your system with the new windows installation, leading you right back to the initial problem with your system, which you can either diagnose, replace (reinstall windows), or simply ignore.
If it was my computer I would consider reformatting the harddrive after forming three partitions, one for primary windows installation, one for secondary windows, and the third for data storage.
You don’t know that any of that is applicable. The way this guy tests, he changes six different things at once. EVERY variable is uncontrolled.
Focus on the idea that the Open Office torrent is slow. Now, what could slow it down? It was fast, now it’s slow, he says.
I don’t think that the version is relevant, or the language. Nevertheless, let’s still eliminate those as variables, so try the torrent for the US English version without JRE.
Try to make this transfer slow.
Start it in no-listen mode.
Disable LT-seeding which also disables LT downloading.
Ban every client except µtorrent.
How’s the speed? Still maxed out?
Stop delete the task and files, close BC, restart it, load the task again with all those conditions on/active.
How’s the speed? Still maxed out after a few minutes? Me, too.
Until you can duplicate this problem, you’re still just guessing. And if you trust his reporting, then it will have to be something that does NOT slow down µtorrent, so that eliminates network issues as such.
A man, as Harry Callahan said, has to respect his own limitations. You’ve got to have an awareness of the possibility of your own faults and flaws. He has none. It is all someone or something else’s fault.
The most common issue in flight disorientation, “my instruments went haywire”, is not that the instruments misbehave, it’s that the pilot doesn’t believe what they’re telling him, so he filters it and reports that.
Make the open office torrent slow for BitComet but not for µtorrent. Eye on the ball.
Now if you can’t make it happen, then what?
(BTW, if you really want to run this off a new partition and think that’ll make a difference, then make yourself a new user account and run BC off a thumb drive. There, it’s on a different partition.)
Yeah, I get what you say.
He is somewhat disoriented. But then again, most of those who come here, are like that.
I just meant to go all the 9 yards so that he won’t go away barking at BitComet on the uTorrent forums.
The idea of running BitComet from a new partition was to run it from a new, clean installation of Windows without any other software installed, without modified system settings and without a Registry in a cancerous state.
If he has most of the applications installed for all users, the solution you mentioned above won’t exactly do the trick.
So a brand new installation of Windows would be the safest bet, especially with the “low reliability” issue that his reports pose.
Many thanks for all your suggestions. If I feel brave I might do both: create new partition with another XP installed on it and a live windows CD.
I have 3 HDD’s: C with XP and apps on it including storage of data, back up drive for storage of data (using SyncBack between this drive and C drive), and media drive for photos.
Will let you know the outcome.