Almost funny

[glennzo]

So Mr. Glennzo has never been a fan of bittorrent. Any bittorrent. If it's bittorrent only I don't download it. It's slow. Slower than a 56K modem slow. Useless, and of course I was always very quick to blame the whole bittorrent thing. Bittorrent is the problem. It's just crap. But now I'm changing my tune, especially since I've seen hundreds of posts where users claim to get blindingly fast speeds. Not here though. Not for Glennzo. It still sucks. But now I believe that it's not bittorrent that's at fault. I believe that it's Comcast. You see, I've been downloading a file, 498MB since yesterday afternoon. 12 hours now. With cable and ftp or http that download would have taken 15 minutes, maybe 20. This download is still going and I'm only at 38%. What the hell is up with that? At this rate the download won't finish until sometime Monday afternoon . Comcast / Bittorrent is a freakin' joke. Just ranting I guess, but it's sort of interesting that it's so slow. You'd think I was trying to steal national defense data.

[leigh123linux]

Have you tried encrypting your protocols ?

[glennzo]

Huh? Leigh, thanks for the reply buy I have no idea what you mean.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by glennzo

Huh? Leigh, thanks for the reply buy I have no idea what you mean.

In ktorrent and azureus you can encrypt the protocols so your ISP has no idea that you are using bittorrent

[glennzo]

I'm interested. But I'm currently using Transmission since it was the default 'open with' program. Maybe I can do the same with it or can I stop the download, install Azureus and resume?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by glennzo

I'm interested. But I'm currently using Transmission since it was the default 'open with' program. Maybe I can do the same with it or can I stop the download, install Azureus and resume?

I would use ktorrent as IMO it's better than Azureus .
I have tried Transmission but found it was too slow ( my ISP doesn't block ) , when I changed to ktorrent I get normal speed ( 7mib + ).
Ktorrent can do resume .

[glennzo]

Thanks Leigh. Installing ktorrent now. Just installed Azureus. Big changes to that program! Wow!

[bob]

Give Deluge a try too. Frankly, I've had nothing but problems with Azureus this last year.

[glennzo]

Thanks for the input Bob. I installed Deluge and will give it a go. Matter of fact, I've installed Deluge, KTorrent and Azureus. Trying them all but I'm still skeptical

[samwedge]

Glennzo, I used to hate bittorrent as much as you because of the slow download speeds. But when I found the encrypt button my downloads went from ~0.5kbps all the way up to ~100kbps (sometimes more than 250).

Granted, if there are no seeders then the downloads will be slow no matter what, but give it a go on a strong torrent and wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[glennzo]

Still no joy. I've tried KTorrent, Azureus, Transmission and Deluge. All tell me the file will take years to download. I'll be old and gray by that time. Ports are open, encryption seems to be enabled but still shooting blanks here. There has been a couple of bursts of speed with Deluge but they are short lived. In fairness to all of the programs there aren't many seeders. 3 at the most but they come and go. Oh well, I'll just let it run and when it's done it's done.

[Dan]

Did you punch a hole in the firewall to let ihe torrent through? I think it's port 6881 by default.

[glennzo]

No firewall but ports open to this ip address through the router.

[Dan]

Hmmm.

I'm on FC6 here, so your mileage may vary, but try going to the firewall control panel in System>Administration>Security and Firewall>and then make the changes below. Might help.

EDIT: Attached illustration removed.

[glennzo]

I'm not using a firewall. It's disabled.