Why are my torrent download SO EXTREMELY SLOW!??!

[floppybunny]

omg this is pissin me off

a little 38 megabyte file will take 1 hour to download beecause dumb utorrent has my download speed at 11.3 kb/s

why is it SOO SLOW? when i downlaod from megaupload i can get speeds up to 800 kb/s so why the slowness at utorrent?? ive also tried bittorrent, bit comet, bit tornado and some others. theyre even SLOWER!

whats wrong?? please helppp

EDIT: oh and another thing! when i press CONTROL ALT DELETE and go to task manager>processes, it says that SYSTEM IDLE PROCESS's CPU is 91! why is it takin so much of the cpu? im not idle either?

[xXDarkFlamezXx]

open your router ports...

[5xxbloodxx5]

haha i laugh at you.... when i use it, it works just fineeeeeeee.... lol.... i still laugh at you....

[Pain_ELementaL]

It has nothing to do with the torrent client...it's how well seeded the torrent is.


Think of it as....torrents are the complete opposite of 'direct' downloads. The more people that download a single direct download at a time, make it go slower.

In the world of torrents...the more the better. If you're trying to download an extremely un-popular file, it will be slow as hell. Direct downloads are hosted on a server, so when many users try to access it at once, it goes slower. Torrents are hosted on the PC of each person who's sharing that file...which is why more people make it go faster (and why it's easier to get caught with torrents...)

[floppybunny]

the thing i was DLin had 9 seeders and 0 leechers! its so slow though? scruffy gets like 800 kb/s !! ahh so not fair. and how do i open my router ports? is there some kinda firewall or somethin stopping me?? i cant even close McAfee. i keep tryin to close it but it wont close. McShield's the only one that wont close!! AHH

[xXDarkFlamezXx]

close your firewalles to allow incoming connections with torrents, and then open ur router by going to ur router login, so i think u put in 192.168.1.1 in your browser, and open ports from there

[soldierkid2057]

deosnt that work in "some" routers darkflame

[Pain_ELementaL]

deosnt that work in "some" routers darkflame

It depends what your internal IP address is set to.

[soldierkid2057]

floppy tell us wat r u using.A router,dsl,modem(i think modem same as dsl)

[xWhite_Shadowx]

k guys shhh.... torrents are supposed to be like that its not you!!! THis is how it be nigz

Torrent = parted files split over the internet, much like a glass shattered on the floor, the bigger the file the more the shards and the harder to reach out and grab everything... but seeders bring the file together for u making it easier to reach aka higher download speeds, because seeders upload the file, when u download a file and leave the torrent client on ur automatically seeding, now i dont recommend torrents because i was once caught using it. some files are split near gov't sites making it easy for them to track and report u to ur ISP, becuase ur ISP doesnt want to get in trouble for u, they have no problem sending u to jail. hope this helped

[soldierkid2057]

no but it scared me lol

[floppybunny]

AHH im never downloading torrents again! xwsx what happend after u got caught??