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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / BitTorrent - Suggestion
« on: April 06, 2005, 11:18:31 am »
Hiya,
I managed to download the 210MB client via BitTorrent and it was painfully slow at under 10kBps on average, that?s about 6 hours of download. I know it is not a problem at my end because I have just downloaded a 1GB file with the same BT client a few hours ago at the average speed of 40kBps (about 7hours), with much less seeds and peers than you have here.
A few things I noticed while downloading. First, even though there is a large number of seeds (~190) and peers (~490) my BT client (Azureus) can only connect to about a 15 of them at any time. The console shows lots of connection refused and end of stream errors. Also, all successful connections are Local only, there isn\'t any Remote peer or seed connections.
These symptoms remind me of those port 80 (the HTTP port) trackers that I encountered. My ISP uses transparent proxies, so even when I set my browser or any Internet apps for that matter, to connect to the Internet directly, they don\'t actually do that. All HTTP (port 80) connections go through a dynamically assigned proxy. I can usually get around the port 80 tracker problem by IP override in my BT client, but even that is a hit or miss, and download speed still suffers because other peers whose ISP had done the same thing didn\'t do what I did.
This lead me to believe that the port number used by your tracker, 6881 in this case, is also being put behind a proxy or firewall by my ISP. Since port 6881 is a well-known BT port, it isn\'t surprising to see most ISP\'s doing this or have some other measures to throttle it down so that it doesn\'t eat up most of their bandwidth. Btw, this is the reason I don\'t use port 6881 on my BT client either.
So I suggest that the admins or whoever in-charge of dealing with the tracker, change that port number to something less obvious then 6881 and 80, probably best to avoid popular database ports too.
For players or potential players using BitTorrent, I also suggest that you change your BT port to something else, like somewhere between 10000 and 65535, if it is currently set to 6881, this will solve most of the slow download problem, at your end that is.
Elvenstar
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Ex-Veteran of UO, EQ
Ex-Apprentice of AO
Ex-Beta Tester of EnB, Al-Kardin, DaarkSpace
No time for these shit these days.
I managed to download the 210MB client via BitTorrent and it was painfully slow at under 10kBps on average, that?s about 6 hours of download. I know it is not a problem at my end because I have just downloaded a 1GB file with the same BT client a few hours ago at the average speed of 40kBps (about 7hours), with much less seeds and peers than you have here.
A few things I noticed while downloading. First, even though there is a large number of seeds (~190) and peers (~490) my BT client (Azureus) can only connect to about a 15 of them at any time. The console shows lots of connection refused and end of stream errors. Also, all successful connections are Local only, there isn\'t any Remote peer or seed connections.
These symptoms remind me of those port 80 (the HTTP port) trackers that I encountered. My ISP uses transparent proxies, so even when I set my browser or any Internet apps for that matter, to connect to the Internet directly, they don\'t actually do that. All HTTP (port 80) connections go through a dynamically assigned proxy. I can usually get around the port 80 tracker problem by IP override in my BT client, but even that is a hit or miss, and download speed still suffers because other peers whose ISP had done the same thing didn\'t do what I did.
This lead me to believe that the port number used by your tracker, 6881 in this case, is also being put behind a proxy or firewall by my ISP. Since port 6881 is a well-known BT port, it isn\'t surprising to see most ISP\'s doing this or have some other measures to throttle it down so that it doesn\'t eat up most of their bandwidth. Btw, this is the reason I don\'t use port 6881 on my BT client either.
So I suggest that the admins or whoever in-charge of dealing with the tracker, change that port number to something less obvious then 6881 and 80, probably best to avoid popular database ports too.
For players or potential players using BitTorrent, I also suggest that you change your BT port to something else, like somewhere between 10000 and 65535, if it is currently set to 6881, this will solve most of the slow download problem, at your end that is.
Elvenstar
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Ex-Veteran of UO, EQ
Ex-Apprentice of AO
Ex-Beta Tester of EnB, Al-Kardin, DaarkSpace
No time for these shit these days.