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Hi,

I am using Airtel BB. Until last month the speeds have been good in the range of 25-30kbps, but when it got squeezed to almost nothing, I switched over to Utorrent app. Now, I am getting the speeds of averaging 10-12

Is this ok, or I am missing something. I am also getting the error of "no incoming connections" (which I am still researching), if you could please share some details on this, it would be great.

Cheers
Logs!

Jupiter

Torrents speed depends on the speed other users are giving you. If you download a file which have few seeders with low bandwith speed then you wowuld surely have slow download speed.

Zeus

airtel does not block any of the incoming connection but i think it would be nice if you download those torrents which have lots of seeders.

User789

you should get torrent from mininova or meganova as these are the best sites where you can see the torrent live stats.

sivaji

use good torrent client and select the torrent file that has maximum seeder to get more speed

ace_ventura2

Try using flashget or bitcomet to download which will give good speed. Also download from torrents from site Welcome to About.com U get all good sites like mininova, seedpeer, the piratesbay all at one site Welcome to About.com U also get good seeders.... and the best amongst all torrents sites where u get seeders in 1000's is btjunkie - the largest bittorrent search engine and Torrents Search Engine. Just check for number of seeders and also always check comments before downloading. U can thank me if U want to....hehehe
Cheers

john_noble

If you still watch this post!, Forward your torrent port in all your routers to get incoming connections. (Remember airtel modem is also a router)
Besides that you can also fine tune your torrent client to get the maximum speed. By doing these you should get your max speed if there are enough seeds.
Test your torrent speed with 'open office' official torrent which always has enough seeds.

Masula

NAT might be one of the issues for no/low download speeds.... try selecting a port which is unique and not being used and make sure to forward that port in ur router.

hope this helps...

pisces_m

You disn't specified your Broadband Plan. might be you are getting more speed from airtel previously. The other Problem which is most common is Port Forwarding on Airtel Modem(Router) and setting in Utorrent applications. I also faced same problem previously the seeds were 6 and no peers then also i was getting only 2-3KB/s and my line speed is 256Kbps UL. So check Utorrent settings and port forward. then reply back