Miserable download luck with all bitorrents. Why?

Background: I have great luck with Limewire, and can download a film, at 130 kb a second or faster, in under 4 hours.





Totally different story with bitorrent downloading. The big joke is that the majority of files say "27 days" for projected download time, or something similarly absurd. I have managed to download two films to date from any bitorrent, and one took me two weeks of going on and getting a trickle download overnight, every night to complete.





Because of this, I have the distinct impression that bitorrents suck, and that Limewire is far better. Is there some obvious thing that I, as a newbie bitorrent user, may be missing?

Miserable download luck with all bitorrents. Why?
Bittorrent can actually be very fast depending on the torrent. I would not give up on it yet. The problem is most likely that your router or firewall is blocking incoming connections and you are not able to upload data to other peers.





Go to your router setup, for information on this read your router manual, or just go to All Programs%26gt; Accessories%26gt; Command prompt and type "ipconfig" and enter the gateway number into your browser and use the username "admin" and password "admin".





Go to the port forwarding section and open the port (tcp and udp) that is necessary for your bittorrent program. You need to find out what ports your bittorrent program uses.





I suggest you get utorrent or azereus, which will indicate whether your router is configured correctly with color codes. Azereus has the best indicator in this regard with 2 circles on the bottom that will say "nat ok" etc.
Reply:Sometimes a firewall will get in the way of Bittorrent's normal operation. Turn the Windows firewall OFF. Your router's built-in firewall does a better job anyways. Also, you need to enable port forwarding on your router. Check your router's website for instructions on how to do this. Good luck!
Reply:what website are you using the bitorrents from?
Reply:I know what you mean. I think part of the problem is that there may be like only 10 copies of a file and like 50 people leeching and downloading the same thing which takes it longer to finish. That's part of it; another part is that if you're behind a firewall the firewall may be limiting access to ports that will enable faster downloads.

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