Help Me! Slow Torrent Downloads

Staying_Classy

Staying_Classy

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I'm currently working on downloading a VERY large torrent (over 100 gigs). For some reason my download is going much slower than usual. I generally average 1-1.5 mb per second, but for the most part I'm sub 100 kb/s, some times dipping down much lower, even hitting 0.2 kb/s. I don't know much about torrents, so is there something that could be affecting it? I'm using bittorrent btw.
 
Don't have too much shit open and dont play games. It helps.
Play your wii and let it download without interruptions
 
you can always try port forwarding on your router. sometimes that can help speed things along. also make sure there are a good decent size of seeders, and not many leechers at the time!
 
Not sure where to check exactly how many seeders/leechers there are, but I'd assume not many, as it's a fairly new torrent.
 
Staying_Classy said:
Not sure where to check exactly how many seeders/leechers there are, but I'd assume not many, as it's a fairly new torrent.
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Assuming ports are forwarded, you're being limited by the seeders. Like you said, it's new. In uTorrent, there's a tab on the bottom called "Peers" I think. It will show you the rate at which you're getting it from the peers. If you have 50 peers that are uploading at 2kbps, then you're only going to get 100kbps download.
 
You don't have to forward any ports, if you have UPnP enabled in your router. uTorrent handles that on its own with UPnP port mapping. So it's probably the peers/seeds.
 
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