Why is bittorrent 7.8 so slow

Please and thanks you! Posted March 29, This has started with me also! I have been using bittorrent for years, never having a problem like this. Please post a solution ASAP, i cant live without my downloads. Adnan Posted April 3, Posted April 3, Posted April 16, Posted April 17, Posted April 19, KSig44 Posted April 20, Posted April 20, Posted April 23, Harold Feit Posted April 23, Also, 6. Posted April 25, This topic is now closed to further replies.

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FrostWire, a BitTorrent client formerly a Gnutella client , is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. Using the most recent version. I'm experiencing incredibly slower than usual download speeds when using Bittorrent. All of this seemed to start when i started messing with the bandwidth options.

It's currently like this ; Global Maximum of Connections : Maximum Number of Connected Peers per torrent : Number of Upload Slots : 40 I tried lowering those numbers as i know it works when using low bandwidth , no luck It's currently "Forced" Maximum number of active torrents : 57 Maximum number of active downloads : 57 UPNP and NAT-PMP port mapping are disabled , i forwarded a port from my router and i used a big number it's currently : 17, TCP,UDP I even tried to enable port mapping although i forwarded my own , again i failed to achieve higher download speeds.

Transfer Cap is disabled. Bittorrent is in my AVG firewall exceptions. I disabled then uninstalled AVG believing it to be the source of the problem. Nope , it's not. Others were usb Still i couldn't make any difference. No , it doesn't and My Hard Disk is not throttling my download speeds.

Should you require options from The Advanced Tab , give me the entry and i shall copy one here. I'm using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Harold Feit Posted June 15, How much would you recommend i put in global maximum of connections , considering my bandwidth?

Cant connect to peers? Are you downloading via a free Proxy server that's now not there? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? Can't download files. Same here, it says it is connecting to peers or finding peers , but nothing happens, several hours of nothing happening.

No browser changes have been made, and prior sessions worked quite well. I have the same problem Not connecting to peers Any solutions? Cannot download same torrent again.

I think I found an answer to some of you here. I tried to start a torrent on tpb before I opened bittorrent, when i opened it there was a new version 7. It was indeed, but I believe it was labeled as "hidden" and stopped automatically after the update. Hi - I am the same - my system shows "connecting to peers" and the DMT shows "waiting for announcement" - but torrents will nor start. I am wondering whether this is an issue world wide or is it limited to certain countries - I was ok from Australia last week but now in France - nothing.

This has started with me also! I have been using bittorrent for years, never having a problem like this. Please post a solution ASAP, i cant live without my downloads. Can anyone help? Thank you Goldo. BitTorrent 7. Please Check. Nothing downloading! I'm having the same problem. Everything worked great just two days ago. Now I can't download anything.

Did all the stuff the fella above did, no effect. When I click the magnet icon, bothing happens. Default location for converted files. Didn't find the option under preferences, wondering how to do this. Thanks in advance, K. Problem finding network drives as preferred download location.

So it seems like the last character is cut off for some reason. I'm currently running BitTorrent 7. Upgrading to windows 8. Before re-installing restart your computer, check whether any BT leftover files are there in 'program files' and 'appdata' folders. If so, delete them even if its just an empty folder with a name related to Bit torrent. Bit Torrent 7. Thanks for the reply but what you suggest is not present? BTW I'm using 7. What is this Instant Download stuff at the top of my BitTorrent client?

How do I disable it? I do not want that spam crap in my client.