Windows Bit comet and general downloading problem

Hi guys,

I seem to have a problem with downloading now. As, when i start Bit-Comet up, and click start downlading....it disconnects me from my internet!!!

I've done port forwarding, doesn't seem to prevent it.

Any ideas on how to prevent it or why it's happening.

 

completely disconnects you? or does the program's connection get shut out? Might looka t your firewall settings and make sure it allows outgoing trafic from this program.

 

Does it just do it with bitcomet? or IE/FF, online games, windows update, FF download too?

 

It completely disconnects me...i mean every single thing... the whole internet

Only with bitcomet, and i've allowed the incoming and outgoing connections on both virus checker and my router

I haven't tried other downloading software....may as well give that a try

 

Have you tried other programs? Often the huge number of connections that some torrents gets can crash or screw with routers or DSL modems(especially cheaper ones). Torrents used to crash my DSL modem all the time, I solved it by getting a decent router.

 

Try using µTorrent instead of bitcomet. What happens?

 

Ok try that, it could be a problem with your connection recieving.

What connection are you on?

 

YES!!

Thank you quack....finally it works!!


My speed is 512 Kb/s

Make of it, what you will...

 

Well done, glad to hear it!

Thats a pretty good speed!

 

I mean my internet speed is 512 Mb/s

I get speeds of 3.3kb/s whilst downloading!!

 

To clear this up a bit.

Ragzy has a 512 Kb/s connection. Thats kilobits per second. That means it can download at a maximum of roughly 60KB/s. Thats kilobytes per second. If you only ever get 3.3KB/s while downloading even well seeded torrents Ragzy, I'd suggest you've got a problem. It may have been BitComet, due to that being banned on a considerable number of torrent servers, or it may be due to your ISP throttling torrents.

 

Yes. I had 13 seeds and downloaded at probably a max of 3.3Kb/s. i didn't use bitcomet thoguh, i used the utorrent that quack gave me. Also what do you mean my ISP is throttling torrents?

 

13 seeds is nothing really, because often lots are inactive, or only uploading a tiny ammount of data. If you always get speeds of under 5 though, even on torrents with hundreds of seeds, then chances are your ISP is throttling(limiting) the speed at which torrents can go at.

Also, unless Utorrent is being stupid, you were downloading at 3.3KB/s, not 3.3kb/s. Learn the difference and remember it, because it is important. People can sometimes guess from context, but not always.

 

Oh ok, you should be ok, It depends on the torrent. If it works and it downloading it should be fine! If its slow it becasue the seeder/sender (person you are getting file from) may have a upload limit of 3.3kbs or may have a weaker connection.

Your connection seems to be fine!

 

There's been cases on ntl where this happens.
However, that is caused by older cable modems being overloaded with maxed out up/downstream and large numbers of new connections.

 

I see. I hardly ever get torrents with over 100 seeds and the maximum speeds i get are around the 50-60 Kb/s mark.

What do you mean the difference between Kb/s and kb/s?

Is there one? I can't learn the difference without being taught....

 

No there isnt ... same thing

 

But...I...Um.......no difference??

*i scratch my head*

What was specofdust saying?

 

kb and Kb are the same. kb and kB are different. b = bit, B = byte (8x smaller).

512kbps = 65kBps

 

50-60KB/s is exactly what you should be getting, so that's fine, your connection is neither limited, nor faulty in any respect

Thats a good start. A byte is 8 bits, simple as that. So a Kilobyte(KB) is eight times greater then a kilobit(kb). You're 512kb(kbit) connection can download at about 60KB(kbyte) per second because 512 divided by 8 is 64. Understand?