Vuze Optimization Problems

[moosekick]

Hi, I have been reading for days now on how to optimize vuze for faster downloads and I was brought here via a link that said to ask here, so here goes:

I have had vuze working for years at about 100 to 120kB/s and now I cannot get over 10 if I'm LUCKY. I don't know if I changed anything or not... but I have tried EVERYTHING listed on all the sites and still nothing. I have speed tested and I have the bandwidth... It worked before... I called Rogers (my ISP ) and they said that residential accounts cannot make static IPs and did not help me to port forward. I tried port forwarding anyway and got green smileys but still nothing over 10kB/s total. My uploading is going great...uploading is always going at least 3 times faster than downloading.

The last thing I did was try the speed test then used the calculator to punch in the numbers into the tools/options in vuze and that also did nothing.

Please someone have a suggestion that works?!?

Thanks in advance...

[peter]

Try this:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...vuze-speed.htm

[moosekick]

Already tried that

[moosekick]

I'm actually using the find open port tool and I've tried like 30 different ports and they all get an "error" reason time out. could this be the problem? I also see an IP address that I've never seen before, is this my public IP? Should I be concerned about this?

[mr6n8]

First off, Rogers is probably the worst ISP when it comes to bittorrent. Not only do they interfere with bittorrent bandwidth, but they also throttle all encrypted traffic.
Azureus-Wiki: Bad ISPs-Canada

Are you still getting green smileys on the torrents even though the port test is failing?
The reason a static IP helps is that you do not have to re-clear the port (in the router) every time the IP changes.
Did you check out the Portforward.com Static IP Guides?

[moosekick]

Yes I did, Rogers said that they don't allow static IP on residential. So I then went to the open port check to see which ports are open, tried at least 100 and all came back timed out. Even when I got the green smileys, I didn't get any good speeds. Is it possible that Rogers had just started to throttle my speed and left me alone for years?

Any suggestion finding and forwarding a good port without a static IP would be greatly appreciated

[mr6n8]

There is no port number that will show open unless exceptions are made in any router or firewall.
For some ISPs you can choose a port that is used for other functions, but Rogers is very tough and that will not work with them (used to, but they closed that gap).

Have you set an exception in your software firewall for Vuze?

Have you tried UPnP?
UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) will automatically open the port.
There is a small security issue with UPnP, but given your situation it would be the best option.
UPnP will not be affected by the dynamic IP.

See the Choosing a Port and the Forwarding the Port sections of the Optimizing Vuze guide that Peter linked above
for more info on the software firewall and on UPnP for the router.

If you have any Qs, post back.

Is it possible that Rogers had just started to throttle my speed and left me alone for years?

It is possible. I was surprised to see that you have been able to get the speeds you were.

If the above does not help, then post back as there may be a possible workaround for Rogers using uTorrent's beta. I have not seen anyone from Rogers use it, but Bell Canada (a bittorrent throttler) users have had good results.

[moosekick]

I went to tools/options/connections on vuze and made the port 50006 for tcp and udp. I clicked on enable on upnp every box except report successful mappings and output full debug information to log is checked. I have named the port number Azur3 and Azur4 for each TCP and UDP allowing port 50006 through windows firewall. As I was writing this, my total download speed jumped up to 100 kB/s. I did nothing different than I have done in the past, but somethings working...

Thanks for your help, Any other things to add would be cool...

[Oiler1]

Originally Posted by moosekick

I went to tools/options/connections on vuze and made the port 50006 for tcp and udp. I clicked on enable on upnp every box except report successful mappings and output full debug information to log is checked. I have named the port number Azur3 and Azur4 for each TCP and UDP allowing port 50006 through windows firewall. As I was writing this, my total download speed jumped up to 100 kB/s. I did nothing different than I have done in the past, but somethings working...

Thanks for your help, Any other things to add would be cool...

I am new to using Bittorent and Vuze. Initially when I installed it everything worked fine and super fast. The next day I got all these socket errors and could not download anything. I searched the Net for advice and got a friend to give me a copy of a program to do port forwarding. That seemed to do the trick and I choose port 49152 and applied it to my Trend-micro firewall.

I don't have a router so I was guessing that's all I had to do and the problem cleared itself. I find I am still getting some very slow speeds and never anything more than 100 kB/s.

Am I missing doing something? Could my isp be throttling me?

[mr6n8]

Originally Posted by Oiler1

I am new to using Bittorent and Vuze. Initially when I installed it everything worked fine and super fast. The next day I got all these socket errors and could not download anything. I searched the Net for advice and got a friend to give me a copy of a program to do port forwarding. That seemed to do the trick and I choose port 49152 and applied it to my Trend-micro firewall.

I don't have a router so I was guessing that's all I had to do and the problem cleared itself. I find I am still getting some very slow speeds and never anything more than 100 kB/s.

Am I missing doing something? Could my isp be throttling me?

The other adjustment you can make is to cap upload in Vuze to 80% of your internet connection's upload capacity. Having upload set higher, or to unlimited, will interfere with outgoing communications (re-send requests, acknowledgment signals etc.) and download speeds will suffer. A speed test should be taken to determine your connection's upload capacity.

See the Adjusting Internal Settings section of this guide:
Optimizing Vuze (formerly Azureus) for Speed
http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...vuze-speed.htm

The other factor in speed is the health of the torrent. Generally, a torrent with a high seed to peer ratio (even with less totals) will get better speed.

It is possible that your ISP is interfering. Who is your ISP?