Whenever i’m using any torrentDownloader it’s offering very slow dwnload speed, bt at the same time direct dwnload speed is ok. torrent speed is almost 1/8th of direct speed. same condition with Ktorrent, Deluge, Vuze, miuTorrent. I’ve kept port settings to default and no two torrent Downloader are running at a time. Please help. It’s so slow … :’(
You need to open the port/s in the firewall and make sure your port is forwarded in your router.
But i’ve disabled the firewall. can u tell me a little more about port forwarding?? (are talking about something like ipchains port forward?)
The bittorrent protocol is optimized for huge swarms which are rarely attained in the real world. You are likely to obtain high torrent speeds only in certain specific situations, such as when there are a large number of seeders (or a smaller number of high-speed ones) and comparatively few leechers. In the real world, this is rarely the case. You should always check the details in your bittorrent client to see how many seeders there are for a given torrent, and how fast they are uploading. Direct downloads (by which I assume you mean direct download links on web sites for http/ftp downloads) may be very fast in comparison – even more so if you happen to download from high-profile web sites with a fast infrastructure. To achieve similar speeds with BT, you should either download a very popular torrent or many many torrents in parallel. The latter, however, is not recommended, the default being from 1-2 torrents upwards, depending on your bandwidth. You should try your luck with the upcoming openSUSE 11.1 ISOs. I always prefer torrent links to direct downloads because I don’t mind waiting a bit and I consider this a way of saying thanks to the providers of the download, by not overloading their bandwidth.
- sahaittanmoy,
port forwarding comes into play when you are behind a router. Check the router manual.
Uwe
Have look at this:
A Quick Bittorrent Guide (with screenshots) - openSUSE Forums
Thanks, It’s better now, atleast 1/3rd of direct dwnld. But expecting more bcoz my frnds with the same line on windows machine getting much better speed. The problem is i dont like xp (except for vb and gaming).
Am not behind a local router.
In the list of connected peers are there both Local and Remote Connections? There should be.
My common sense says there are only remote connections in peer list. i’ve single connection by broadband service provider.
Connections categorized into two types, depending on where they originate:
- Local - connection initiated by your machine
- Remote - connection initiatied by another machine.
If you only have remote connections, that probably means that all the other hosts have their firewalls misconfigured. I doubt, however, that all your connections are remote.
Do you really want to run your machine without a firewall directly connected to the internet?
Ya all peers are remote. Previously my firewall was off, now i’ve turned it on and configured it for the ports in Ktorrent.
Some confusion here. Remote connections only means YOU have not forwarded your ports correctly. I suggest you double check all your settings. If you only had Remote connections when the firewall was off, then you have other issues.
Now I’m talking rubbish.
Local connections are those your own system initiates
Remote are those from those on the outside.
So to clarify for sure. If you only have Local you probably have a Port Forwarding problem. You couldn’t as far as I know have only Remote connections.
Read here:
Port forwarding - AzureusWiki
http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/b/bf/MonoTorrent7.png
(This is what i found in one official site…and i guess that it’s the proper message)
My torrent is not downloading and not working!!
my torrent application shows this message:
“Client is banned. Please look at the approved client list!”
i’m using openSUSE 11.0 and Monsoon torrent…and i am very new in LINUX community family …so try to explain as good as you can …
:shame:
Verestoy,
The messages you’re seeing are contradictory (Announce successful/Tracker could not be contacted)
Are you <sure> you have opened your Firewall port in <both> directions (in and out)?
Depending on the torrent, being banned might or might not be significant… If the file and your Torrent client supports DHT or similar then no one person (even someone controlling the Tracker) will block you completely – But, if you must rely on the Tracker and you’ve made someone mad it’s possible you really have been blacklisted.
Or, it’s also possible you’re trying to download something without any right to do so… You’re downloading something related to Bongo, have you paid for it if it’s not free?
It’s not the case here…i have the right to use that torrent…i have an account to the tracker.
However when i used Fedora 9.0 this problem was not there …and the same torrent trackers work’t perfectly. I tried to remove my firewall and the result was the same…i mean the same message was displayed **“Client is banned. Please look at the approved client list!”
**.
i really tried to read forums and other people’s problems with the torrents but i have found nothing until now…so i am hoping that somebody here knows how to help me.
P.S.- If you have any idea please explain how i can fix it(for dummies ) like me 
If you are using a private Tracker it will authenticate your connection with some kind of hash key from the torrent you downloaded from the site. Check that sites policy and conditions or message center. Make sure your client is not on a banned list of the Private Tracker site.
I’m using Demonoid.com and www.torrentbits.ro…private also …
If it’s the actual client that’s “banned” you might want to try some other than Monsoon, kTorrent should work fine under gnome even though it’s KDE. Or you could try Vuze.
Also as you mentioned other people making use of the same line make sure you are using a port that differs from theirs.