Azureus running sloooooooowww

Frank_Jaeger · 03-31-2006, 01:35 AM

My download time in Azureus is really slow and I'm wondering if this is normal. I am downloading one torrent and uploading two and these are the up/down speeds:

Download: 8kiloBytes per second
Upload: 35kilobytes per second

As you can see the download speed sucks royally. Is this normal for a torrent with 9 seeders uploading?

My NAT is ok and so is my share ratio (1.989). My internet speed is advertised as being 1Megabit per second down and 512Kilobits up.

I have two questions then:

1. Is this download speed to be expected given the number of seeders and my internet connection speed?

2. If this speed is not normal what can I do to increase the speed?

Please I hope somebody can help me with this, I'm only at 15MB out of 5GB and I've been downloading for like half an hour.

diabloII · 03-31-2006, 01:39 AM

1.) upload kills download
2.) cap your UL at 35kb/sec or so..seems like you're doing that (or you should)
3.) if there's only like 9 seeders, then you're rpetty much stuck with bad speeds
4.) the torrent is probably old? the torrent the torrent the slower it is

Frank_Jaeger · 03-31-2006, 02:46 AM

I had it capped at 55kB/s but now I changed it to 35kB/s and it seemed help it a little but not much.

The torrent is 3 months old.

Looks like with such a low number of seeders this download will take a long long time. I'm now at 0.5% complete.....I'm wondering if I should just give up on this torrent. At 12kB/s downloading 5.6GB will take days...

PZEROFGH · 03-31-2006, 06:57 AM

Sometimes i dont even UL at all and i get crazy download speeds 130kb/s

lol just set it at 10kb/s UL and see what happens

they don't care

Mr_Threepwood · 03-31-2006, 09:05 AM

1. Did you do port forwarding if you have a router?

2. Are you using rogers?

3. Is this on a single torrent or a lot of torrents, some are just slow.

130 is crazy?? Nah I get 600 sometimes, oblivion was going at 300kb/sec.

horndude · 03-31-2006, 10:46 AM

azureus also uses java which makes it a total pig performance wise, even the orginal bittorrent client written in python is better

using windows, get utorrent, linux, try ctorrent or stick with the original

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