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695874 2008-08-08 07:00:00 i heard some of them arent illegal so i went to the normal bittorrent site and got me one
i used utorrent as my bittorrent client and i opened my port or whatever yet the speed is only 50kbs and other peers are getting over 200 kbs

does anyone know whats wrong?

i also did a speed test: www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net)
nerd (109)
695875 2008-08-08 07:04:00 Torrents may not be illegal but whats on them probably is

If you haven't patched the tcpip.sys file (why this was made smaller was because of P2P), it probably doesnt have enough ports
Speedy Gonzales (78)
695876 2008-08-08 07:14:00 how do you do that

also i was going on about the not illegal thing because i remember a guy and everyone wsa giving him crap for using torrents

also i thought the ones on the bittorrent site were legal?
nerd (109)
695877 2008-08-08 07:27:00 how do you do that

You dont have to be a rocket scientist, to know that most of them have pirated / illegal software on them

Thats why people host them and why people use P2P programs

And why people get viruses / trojans
Speedy Gonzales (78)
695878 2008-08-08 07:43:00 Speedy is right, a lot of them are illegal, but upon saying that there are legal ones as well, the first that comes to mind is you can download a Linux Distro which can be a torrent - all legal.

Generally speaking if you think along the lines of movies, if you had to buy them from a shop and they are on a torrent site consider it illegal (mostly)
wainuitech (129)
695879 2008-08-08 08:16:00 ok then, but why is it so slow?

my friends also get around 200 kbs

i checked if i still have any bandwidth and i still have 2 gb so whats wrong?

all my other downloads are alright as well just not torrents
nerd (109)
695880 2008-08-08 08:32:00 Who is your ISP, some ISP's throttle back torrent / P2P downloads.

It can also depend on how many people are seeding and where they are in the world.

If you want to try as a test downloadThis Here (neosmart.net) Its a Vista Recovery Console, the speed I'm getting is up and down like a yo-yo Ranging from 120 KB/s to 276KB/s
wainuitech (129)
695881 2008-08-09 22:41:00 Hey bro you gotta port forward man, that will crank ya d/l speed hard. Google port forwarding and all will be revealed.

portforwarding.com will help also
1cowboy (14059)
695882 2008-08-10 03:06:00 Torrents are usually illegal but are good for downloading linux distros Blam (54)
695883 2008-08-10 03:56:00 If you need a good test torrent, try this one (torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de fda8db36f9b) - it's the latest knoppix disk. The knoppix torrents are usually extremely well seeded, and therefore are very fast - if you can't max out your connection with this one, then there is probably somethign wrong with your settings. Erayd (23)
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