Alright, so I'm dowloading for the first time using BitTorrent. Here's the problem:
When I started off, I was the only leecher, downloader, whatever you call them in BT, getting d/l speeds of around 10KB/s. BUT, ever since people started d/l-ing from me,
my d/l speed has dropped to 0KB/s with an occasional, rare flare up to 3 KB/s.
PC / Network / Software Info
- 1.6 GHz PC, 512MB RAM, Win2K
- aDSL (1500kbps dl/128kbps ul)
- static IP home network over router
- port forwarding 6881-6999 (the default port range used by Shadow BT) to the machine on which I'm using BT
- Shadow BT version S-5.8.7 (tried BT version 3.3 with the same results)
Shadow BT Config and Stats
- Unlimited upload speeds
- max of 4 upload connections
- connected to 1 peer with an average of 38.5% completed
- connected to 0 seeds*; also seeing 0.450 distributed copies
- Shadow BT Status light is yellow (but the fact that someone is connected to me and d/l-ing directly contradicts the status light description offered by Shadow BT that no one is connected to me); Update: my status light has now changed to blue, sooo...the original seed must be gone or offline and no other client has the complete torrent, now - at least that's how I read this
* Does this mean I'm no longer pulling data from the seed but only from my peer, and as such have to wait for my peer to d/l from the seed before I can d/l from my peer?
So, my questions:
[1] Why have my speeds dropped to damn near zero?
[2] How do I config so I can continue u/l to others while I d/l without the d/l performance turning to crap?
[3] Am I hosed now that there isn't a complete seed out there anywhere?