Alrighty, i've been having this problem for several months at least. Basically anything i attempt to download off of bitorrent is downloading at less than 1k a second. I've literally tried hundreds of different files, but none of them download any faster. (these are all legal files of course)

I've done some googling and apparently the problem has something to do with my "port" settings. I need to have the right ones open or closed or something, but i'm not sure how to go about it.

I'm running XP with rogers cable and a linksys wireless b router (the computer i'm trying to download to is wired to the router)

any help would be appreciated. Just lemmie know if you need some more info.

Posted by cheesemaster Alrighty, i've been having this problem for several months at least. Basically anything i attempt to download off of bitorrent is downloading at less than 1k a second. I've literally tried hundreds of different files, but none of them download any faster. (these are all legal files of course) I've done some googling and apparently the problem has something to do with my "port" settings. I need to have the right ones open or closed or something, but i'm not sure how to go about it. I'm running XP with rogers cable and a linksys wireless b router (the computer i'm trying to download to is wired to the router) any help would be appreciated. Just lemmie know if you need some more info.

Ok. I suspect that you've fallen victim to Rogers' traffic shaping practises of late. What's happening is that Rogers is for all intents and purposes blocking bittorrent traffic. See the following article:

http://torrentfrea...ittorrent-traffic/

What you'll have to do is get yourself a client that supports encryption; Azureus and microtorrent are the only two that I know of offhand that currently support this feature. (Azuraeus 2.4.0.0 supports encryption; 2.3.0.6 does not).

The idea behind the encryption is to conceal the nature of the traffic from Rogers' traffic shaping algorithms--this should work in the short run, but in the long run, you may well have to ditch Rogers. (I would -- they have no damn business telling you what you can do with the bandwidth you've paid for.)

EGV

If you need some further assistance, just Skype me or PM me with your phone number and a good time to call and we'll see what we can do.