# torrent people:torrents and DSL? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 13, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746 "2006-04-13T19:11:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Garick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8797f3/32.png) [@Garick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Garick)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746/1 "2006-04-13T19:11:04Z")
torrents used to work great for me back when I was on powerlink. Now with a switch to Verizon dsl they no longer work. I have no idea if its something to do with the DSL or something else but the two seemed to come in together. I can connect to people fine and am getting enough seeds and stuff but My download speeds are rediculously slow. I am using utorrent now, bittorrent also does the same thing. Bittorent is what I always used in the past. Anybody have any ideas on what might be causing this? ---
**Author:** ![JaysGreenLX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jaysgreenlx/32/7321_2.png) [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746/2 "2006-04-13T19:16:32Z")
I have nothing good to say about Verizon or their DSL. Search connection speed tests on Google and run one. I was getting about 300kbs with DSL. Now I get about 4mbs ---
**Author:** ![auttiquattro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@auttiquattro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/auttiquattro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746/3 "2006-04-13T19:31:16Z")
do you have the one with a router? if so you need to do port forwarding in order to get faster speeds…i had no problems with verizon and torrents ---
**Author:** ![Vile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vile/32/7595_2.png) [@Vile](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vile)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746/4 "2006-04-13T20:51:02Z")
yeah… gotta port forward… it’s explained on the utorrent site i get 320KB from dsl ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746/5 "2006-04-15T07:00:33Z")
had the same problem… may want to try what these guys suggested. have no idea why, but I connected fine… but was only getting like 2-3K/sec d/l speeds lol with powerlink I’ve gotten up to 800K/sec :tup: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![catalyst](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/catalyst/32/7279_2.png) [@catalyst](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/catalyst)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746/6 "2006-04-15T07:13:03Z")
[http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm](http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm) ---
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746/7 "2006-04-15T07:29:39Z")
you also want a static IP for your computer assigned from the router, but that is also part of the port fowarding ---
**Author:** ![Garick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8797f3/32.png) [@Garick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Garick)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/torrent-people-torrents-and-dsl/10746/8 "2006-04-15T19:57:55Z")
seems to be working better, the portforwarding site was great. thanks