Topic: Comcast/Belkin/Azureus/Mac/BitTorrent help please

[cleantone]

So today my questions do come to Bit Torrent. I used PF.com to get my ports forwarded properly. I have been using Azureus for a client. I do not tweak settings in it as I don't know enough to really know what they do beyond the port settings. I started some torrents and the trackers verified that I was not firewalled. Speeds stared out okay but quickly dropped to lame as hell. They were healthy enough torrents. I don't think it was the peers not giving enough data. I know only a little about the throttling claims. I have seen ways around it for PC's but none for Mac. Can you help please?

[tapeheadtoo]

I get around this by using RC-4 packet encryption, available when using Azureus on Mac as follows:

In Azureus, go to the Azureus menu and select Preferences –> Connection –> Transport Encryption --> Require encrypted transport, minimum encryption level RC4.

Worked for me.

[newplanet7]

I have comcast and don't get throttled FWIW
I know that most do.
I have a buddy who lives maybe 40 miles from me and gets throttled a ton.

[cleantone]

I have tried the normal encryption as you mention. I also found a tutorial for a different encryption for this Sandvine choking. So far it does not seem to work fully. With Verizon DSL I would basically sustain the upload speed that I had set. If I set the upload at 75kB/s it would sit there at 75 or so as long as I let it. Right now my download speed has been okay, 200-300kB/s but I know it could be 1500kB/s or whatever. The upload speed has been floating from almost nothing to 30-40kB/s. I am connected to a few healthy torrents. In my past experience connected to these torrents I would have the upload at max setting and the download would be close to my cap. I am seeing only a fraction of what I could or should be seeing for download speed. I appear to still be effected by the Sandvine.

[Steve J]

I think Comcast caps their upload speeds at 128kb/s or 256 kb/s. At least, that's what they told me when I inquired about it last year (Seattle area).

[Sebastian]

If you're using a Mac, try Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/). It's a nice, non-bloated BT client.

[grtphl]

what tracker are you using?  a private tracker is the best way to determine how fast you can download.  on public trackers, i'll average 70 kb/s downstream; on well-seeded public trackers or private trackers, 1.5 - 2 mb/s downstream no longer surprises me.  i have a good upstream connection here (university) and have been known to dump 300+ kb/s to whomever is leeching.  if enabling encryption doesn't help, pm me and we could test your connection by having you d/l a torrent i'm the only seeder on; otherwise, since your ports are fine, use private trackers or get off comcast.