Anyone good with working Torrents?

[Andromeda18_]

I asked a friend of mine who's really, really into computers, about your problem and here is what he wrote:

well if you ONLY have this problem with torrents (for example, if you can upload a file to a ftp server and download something off the net and use msn while you're doing it) then it's a "torrent-related problem".
a lot of isp's are now banning torrent traffic so that could be a problem... solution? there are proxys.. but I don't avise it. The other solution is a side project that's being built in azureus. It now allows to encrypt torrent traffic, thus the isp's can't distinguish if it's torrent-traffic or not.
I don't know the details cause I don't have that problem, you should look into that I guess...
You didn't specify your connection settings so I can't make any calculations, but you should understand that a download needs some upload traffic. For example, i have 40Kb/s and 1100Kb/s, but if I download at 1100Kb/s it uses almost 25~35Kb/s. When i used to only have 15Kb/s upload, if I was downloading a torrent I could only put 5Kb/s upload, because a bigger value would mean a slower download. I mean, the download gets slow and the other network connections get slow too! (they are downloads and uploads after all...)
Now i have a wrt, wrt has builtin Traffic Shapping. You should use that.. it helps this situation (lets say it implements a smart queueing packet system). If you don't have a router that supports it (or use a direct connection) there are programs that implement it too. I remember for windows CfosSpeed (or something like that). Install it and see, follow the instructions and see what gives you best results... linux has traffic shapping in the kernel, if you use it look up in a howto or something. It involves (for easier implementation) using some scripts called wondershaper i think.

Another thing, all torrent programs are slow... i can't make a rule and i don't want to make assumptions about what makes them slow. Try them all, and see whatever suits you.. i heard good things about BitComet, but i use Azureus (linux and mac...). It isn't the king of speed (java based..) but it has a lot of feats i guess (web controled, i have a widget for the mac, etc etc)

hope this helps (altough the problems seems very weird...)

Well, here you have it. I suppose it's a bit messy but he always writes like that, regardless of the language. :p If you don't understand something just let me know. Hope it helps!