There is alot of new thread asking about their slow BT so I decide to post this 2 section in depth FAQ.


1.General Question

I always get a yellow icon when I try to download some stuff

Check whether did you forward the required port. You can find out how to forward port at this website PortForward.Com
Please choose some random port such as 51253 etc

I still get yellow light after I forward the required port
Check your firewall! Some firewall nowdays required you to forward port in their firewall.


Everytime I reached 100kBps, the speed will rapidly drop to 0kBps

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2. Protocol Encryption

I heard TMnet throttled p2p including BT. What Should I do

You need a BT client that supports Protocol Encryption.

This 3 client is the most popular BT client and three of them supports a common Protocol Encryption.

µTorrent
Azureus
Bitcomet

[quote=townbaby]

How to enable Protocol Encryption



µTorrent



Azureus


Bitcomet


It get harder to connect to a peer after I enabled Protocol Encryption
After you enable Protocol Encryption (forced/always), you client will only attempt to handshake with peer with Protocol Encryption thus reducing the chance of you to get connected with another user.

Western torrent seems to have better speed than Eastern torrent. Why?

The main recent is Eastern BT users temp to leech more compared to the Western user. So next time when you done downloading a torrent, please seeed it to atleast 1:1 ratio.


Please PM me and let me now if I left out any important stuff. Thank you and have a nice day BT-ing

This post has been edited by Chartry: Mar 22 2006, 08:58 AM

Chartry , will be the sole bearer of this thread.


NO ONE ELSE IS PERMITTED TO POST IN THIS THREAD. OFFENDERS WILL BE GIVEN A 3-DAY SUSPENSION, NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

If you want something to be added here, send Charty a private message


If you wish to 'report' that your BitTorrent speed still slow [or if you're angry towards TMNET], then please use this threadinstead

P.S - If you know BitTorrent inside out , or if you know more information on about this matter , then you're allowed to post here [To Express your view]
Thank you

This post has been edited by prasys: Mar 24 2006, 01:53 PM

Someone asked me to run a test and see whether Protocol Encryption works or not. So here it is.

Protocol Encryption enabled



Protocol Encryption disabled

Your tests are baseless without screenshots of your PEERS LIST, Chartry. Enough of your speclutation, produce some real proof to back up your theory.

Mods. Have any of you personally tested this? You're all drawing a conclusion on one person's view? Chartry never picked out the good posts from the thread- he/she merely copy/pasted his/her own posts!

I believe TMNet is "shaping". Yes, "shaping", but it cannot be bypassed by using PE, since every single connection, regardless of what protocol, will be reduced to mediocre speeds (~5-10k) after the first ~30-40 seconds. This is DIFFERENT from the conventional traffic shaping some ISPs are doing.

Pictures are worth a thousand words.



The ones with "E" under flags are connected to me by encryption. And yet, they are not transferring more than 4.2k at most.

This test was done with a torrent on a private tracker, ScT, with dedicated seeders. I wasn't connected to any local IPs.

So I guess this pretty much proves my statement. Prove me wrong. I might be incorrect, but at least I have produced some sort of proof to back up my views.

I repeat myself: (This was posted by me in the original BT thread.)

-ignorantcow/R-K-F

Edit: I'm getting pretty strong/consistent speeds (~60k from one peer) from *.proxad.net (without PE), and IIRC "Joseph Hann" reported good speeds from an UCLA IP, too. So there are exceptions.

This post has been edited by R-K-F: Mar 23 2006, 10:43 PM

First of all you cant post here. Im quite busy right now but I want you to know that both JARING and TMnet is listed as ISP that limits BitTorrent bandwidth at Azureus Wiki. Check it out yourself.


http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Bad_ISPs

R-K-F ,

Have you read the Wiki yet

If you have read , you would know that it does not work with 'Secure Torrents' , for more information please click here

Oh , yes you could be right as well

Chartry- OK, so now it is listed. It is true in a way, but it CANNOT by solved by using PE/MSE-whatever.

prasys- I do not use Azurues, I am not familiar with how it treats "secure torrents"- I'm assuming you're refering to "private torrents" (marked with the private flag- hence no PEX or DHT.) On the tracker I did the test on (ScT- http://scenetorrents.org/), majority of it's members use uTorrent. PE does work with "secure/private" torrents, at least on uTorrent anyway.

Sorry that this thread didn't turn out. I'll think up of something to increase its value.