bittorrent, suggestions on how to increase dl speed

[night_wolf]

I've been using BitTorrent for a couple of months now and am getting a tad bit annoyed with the poor download speeds I have been getting. I usually average anywhere from 1kb/s - 5kb/s making downloads take FOREVER. My upload to download ration also seems a bit unfair as I usually average anywhere from 15kb/s to 30 kb/s. Usually at the end of a download I will have shared out anywhere from 3 to 4 times as much I received. I haven't really done much to try and figure the problem out because I have end of the year exams for school coming up. Any suggestions would be nice.

System Specs:

P4 1.2Ghz
384M RAM
Win XP (all windows update current)
Linksys Router (dont know the model number off the top of my head)

[GroundZero3]

whoa someone else from yorktown va?!?!?!!?

holy crap!

night wolf did you forward the ports for bit torrent to the computer running the client? I had this problem until i forward the ports and now i get fast speeds.

bt uses port 6881-6889

where at in the "YC" are you located?

OH nevermind its just Dan you could of just email me here at work

[night_wolf]

so is this jason? brian? lol

for the port fowarding, do i have to foward them through the linksys router/do i have to disable the built in xp firewall?

should i stick with the original BitTorrent or should i look into a different clientside app?

[GroundZero3]

this is Jason

forward it in the router.
log into the router 192.168.1.1

and i would disable that xp firewall crap.

more info

http://dessent.net/btfaq/#ports

as for BT clients i use ABC

[night_wolf]

ok ill do that when i get home then

as far as ABC, do you have a link?

[GroundZero3]

http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/

[night_wolf]

thx

if anyone else has suggestions/recommendations those would be appreciated too