Improving download speeds on Limewire & Azereus??

[jagdpanther]

Just recently Ive been trying to download some bits and pieces from Limewire and bittorrent, but the speeds have been quite appauling!

I think I may have solved the bittorrent issue with a bit of help from Wikipedia and the traffic shaping bypass, but Limewire Pro is being ridiculously slugish.....I havent breached 11kbps all day and thats unusual

Any ideas gentlmen?

[rebelstar]

A number of ISPs throttle P2P traffic. For some bittorrent clients you can enable encryption which helps a bit, but not much.

[ThePassenger]

ISP issues can play a part but... unless your downloading something from someone who has a very fast commercial connection you're going to be tootling along at ADSL upload speeds (10KB/s - 30KB/s). More people in the swarm can speed things up but... firewalls often get in the way without people realising it.

[Scraggles]

BT Helper and Peerguardian 2 are useful, pg2 especially as it blocks known bad ip's like movie companies from connecting with ypur pc, google to find them - pg2 on phoenix labs

tell us ur isp as some throttle p2p to give good access for email and net

[jagdpanther]

Scraggles said:

BT Helper and Peerguardian 2 are useful, pg2 especially as it blocks known bad ip's like movie companies from connecting with ypur pc, google to find them - pg2 on phoenix labs

tell us ur isp as some throttle p2p to give good access for email and net

ISP is BT internet who I know throttle connections for P2P usage!

When downloading from PH-TV I was DLing at 376kbps which was fantastic and it remains a good rate when downloading from places like this, but on P2P I think it broke 12kbps once last night!

Im going to test the new settings on bittorrent in a moment then try limewire again

[cuneus]

I switched from Azureus to uTorrent and get better speeds

[jagdpanther]

cuneus said:

I switched from Azureus to uTorrent and get better speeds

Bloody hell, you're not wrong!