# Help with torrents
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 25, 2007, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460 "2007-03-25T08:48:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dlatone](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dlatone)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/1 "2007-03-25T08:48:03Z")
ok, so i got it to “work” with utorrent. but the speeds are horrible if they go at all. i tried to have a port forwarded and i followed the directions and all, but it sill says not forwarded. anyone have suggestions? or know a lot about it? thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/2 "2007-03-25T08:49:44Z")
torrents suck ass, you have to rely on other people to get the speeds up.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/3 "2007-03-25T08:50:41Z")
what kinda router?
what port are u trying to forward? what is ur local ip?
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### Author:  [@dlatone](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dlatone)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/4 "2007-03-25T09:00:56Z")
i have a wireless belkin but this pc is on a hard wire connection. i followed the directions and all. but its just not working well. i dunno. is it just supposed to be that slow?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 9:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/5 "2007-03-25T09:05:42Z")
speeds are slow…how many seeders does the torrent file have?
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### Author:  [@redrum](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/redrum)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/6 "2007-03-25T09:21:21Z")
Torrents are rarely ever that fast. Just open the program and queue them and leave it running. Most larger torrent files that I download are done within a day.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/7 "2007-03-25T09:27:11Z")
i have torrents that constantly run around 100mb/s one actually went up to 400mb/s the other day.
what are u downloading?
if it is saying that the port is not forwarded, then the port is not forwarded.
if u give me the information i asked for before, i will find u some instructions.
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### Author:  [@neurokinetik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neurokinetik)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/8 "2007-03-25T09:50:48Z")
How fast the torrent is depends on how popular it is at that moment. If 400 people are working on the same file, I’ve seen as high as 700kb transfer rate. If, OTOH, there are only three people working on the file, it’ll take forever. Also note that the more upload bandwidth you allocate, the faster it will download.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/9 "2007-03-25T09:55:45Z")
[quote=“neurokinetik,post:8,topic:26460"”]
…Also note that the more upload bandwidth you allocate, the faster it will download.
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:word:
remember tho, if u use all ur bandwith on torrents, surfing the web is gonna be slow as mollassess
i generally cap my upload speed at 20mb/s
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### Author:  [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/10 "2007-03-25T11:53:46Z")
[quote=“neurokinetik,post:8,topic:26460"”]
Also note that the more upload bandwidth you allocate, the faster it will download.
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Not entirely true, eventually you hit the up limit and the down starts to slow. Here once i start seeding over 30kb/s the down starts going slower.
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/11 "2007-03-25T13:32:52Z")
[quote=“FightinMike,post:10,topic:26460"”]
Not entirely true, eventually you hit the up limit and the down starts to slow. Here once i start seeding over 30kb/s the down starts going slower.
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+1 I limit upload to basically off when I’m downloading then I’ll seed it like crazy to other people.
I’m willing to bet the slow downloads are a direct result of poor seeding. But then again maybe not.
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### Author:  [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/12 "2007-03-25T13:44:08Z")
Back to your original problem…
I cant speak for everyone here, but I hate utorrent, the only client I hate more is azereus.
Bittornado was my favorite, it was really lite, you could fully customize what ports you forwarded among about 90000 other options if you go advanced. it also ran concurrently really well, ive had 4 or 5 running no problem.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/13 "2007-03-25T14:23:52Z")
i really like utorrent, its just as customizable as bit tornado. also, u can download as many torrents as u want without a bajillion windows being open for bittornado.
anyways, i got him up and running via PM
enjoy
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/14 "2007-03-25T18:39:34Z")
are you using DSL? I can’t get torrents to work on it for the life of me (get like 1kbs d/l speed if any). Tried setting up port forwarding and that didn’t seem to do much. Worked great when I had Adelphia (had speeds anywhere from 50kbps-250)
> anyways, i got him up and running via PM
oh rly? can you help me out as well?
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### Author:  [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/15 "2007-03-25T18:42:00Z")
what did u do to get it setup in the first place?
\<—boardjnky4
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/16 "2007-03-25T18:44:11Z")
[http://portforward.com/english/routers/port\_forwarding/Westell/Versalink327W/DC++.htm](http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Westell/Versalink327W/DC++.htm)
used this article but it didn’t get it going. using a cheepo DSL modem/router
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### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/17 "2007-03-25T19:21:23Z")
mmm portforward is amazing…
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/18 "2007-03-25T19:41:23Z")
[quote=“Dr.Stevil,post:16,topic:26460"”]
[http://portforward.com/english/routers/port\_forwarding/Westell/Versalink327W/DC++.htm](http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Westell/Versalink327W/DC++.htm)
used this article but it didn’t get it going. using a cheepo DSL modem/router
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might i recommend a new router?
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### Author:  [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/19 "2007-03-25T19:51:46Z")
prolly got it from verizon as part of the install
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### Author:  [@neurokinetik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neurokinetik)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-torrents/26460/20 "2007-03-25T20:35:54Z")
[quote=“FightinMike,post:10,topic:26460"”]
Not entirely true, eventually you hit the up limit and the down starts to slow. Here once i start seeding over 30kb/s the down starts going slower.
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That doesn’t happen for me, and I was running it today with upload up to 100k.
On that one, there were 30 seeders, and I was getting downloads that started at 80k and peaked at 350k just before the torrent finished. I’m using BitTornado.
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