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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesAndrew Capps, NC US Post Number: 2908 Registered: Mar-06 | I just got DSL at the house today (NO MORE DIAL UP!) and I downloaded bittorrent and its downloading things as slow or slower than dial up did... Is there something I need to change? I cant figure it out but I am by no means a computer genius. Thanks guys |
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Silver Member Username: Mrskullz1Brooklyn, New York Post Number: 895 Registered: Feb-07 | Andrew, you should try to check out your settings/filters in the options. Also check out if firewall is enabled...that may be an issue. You don't really need to be a genius to change some settings. It should mainly be your filters. ORRRR your prob downloading a torrent that has very few to none seeders. BTW what bittorrent program are you using? |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Philadelphia, PA Post Number: 8776 Registered: Jul-06 | Your DSL modem probably also acts as a router and has a hardware firewall built in. You need to open ports 6881-6889. |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesAndrew Capps, NC US Post Number: 2909 Registered: Mar-06 | I've already messed with the filters and firewalls Ill open the ports when I get home. The internet is quick but just the torrent manager. BTW, Im using BitTorrent as the program |
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Silver Member Username: Mrskullz1Brooklyn, New York Post Number: 896 Registered: Feb-07 | i used to use uTorrent before to download all my torrents and i always used to get sh!tty speeds. I tried Bitlord and got much better speeds. Don't know if its the program or what but it did make a biggg difference for me in the speeds i got. Just my .02 |
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Gold Member Username: The_image_dynamicSan Diego, California Post Number: 4675 Registered: Dec-06 | I prefer µtorrent but BitLord is also good and BitComet too. Anyways, it has way more to do with what your settings are than what client you use. Get µtorrent here: http://download.utorrent.com/1.8.1/utorrent.exe and/or BitLord here: http://www.bitlord.com/BitLord_1.01.exe, find a cd you want using this: http://torrent-finder.com/ that has alot of seeders (80+) and go. If it is still slow we will have to go through your settings. |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesAndrew Capps, NC US Post Number: 2910 Registered: Mar-06 | Im still only downloading at 40kbps on 1.5mbps DSL. I cant figure out how to change my ports... |
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Gold Member Username: The_image_dynamicSan Diego, California Post Number: 4676 Registered: Dec-06 | First of all make sure your XP firewall is off like it should be. Then use this: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/87547 |
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Gold Member Username: Livin_loudCOD4 Addict Post Number: 2700 Registered: Jan-06 | do you have comcast? |
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Gold Member Username: Kpa2727Old Bridge, NJ USA ! Post Number: 1492 Registered: May-07 | comcast dosen't offer dsl. |
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Gold Member Username: Tatonka-[Team Audible Insanity]- Post Number: 2426 Registered: Mar-07 | The problem is....you're using torrents lol. |