Torrent speed problems

[tago]

Hello,

I've been reading quite a few threads about this kind of problem, but couldn't find what I was looking for.

I've installed Transmission, but after a whole night of testing, I verified that I was getting very poor speeds. It downloaded about 250mb in a whole 10 hours, making a mean speed of about 7kb/s.
By looking at the speeds, I noticed it continued to bounce up and down: with a low of 2kb/s and a maximum of about 100kb/s. Upload speed reached 150kb/s.

I'm now trying the default bittorrent client again, as suggested in many threads, but I'm not getting good results. Right now, I'm downloading at 25-30kb/s while uploading at 100kb/s (I've limited upload speed to that, so it is fine: the only problem is download speed).

I'm using a PCH A-100, and I'm on a 15mbit internet connection. On my computer with uTorrent, I can get speeds over a mb/s.

EDIT: I forgot to say the device is on a wired 100mbit network, behind a ZyXEL router and then the modem. Both ports 51413 and 8881 are of course fowarded.

I hope I can do something to improve the download speed. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you very much

[Jekmyster]

I had the same problem, but my solution didnt work for you. My only problem was the port forwarding.

I'm using transmission, 1.41 and after i used the port forwarding it was fine. Still slower than what i get from uTorrent but still very good.

the only thing i can think of is dont download a lot of stuff at the same time(this is if you download multiple files). I usually just download two at a time, and turn 5-8 at a time when i go to sleep. Other than this i dont know.

Maybe try to change the ports, both on the PCH and your router. Also check if your router has firewall settings like mine, that maybe your problem to.

[tago]

Thank you for your reply, but the ports don't seem to be the problem..


I've just tried updating Transmission to 1.42. Things seem to have gotten better, but I doubt it is because of the update.

I have added a couple of other torrents, now I have 3: I have reached a top speed of about 350kb/s, but it is still incredibly bouncy.. It often gets to a low speed of 4kb/s.

The torrents themselves shouldn't be the problem, as they have thousands of seeds and peers.