Why is KTorrent so much slower?

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-02-18 16:48:29

Good afternoon,

I was using KTorrent for quite a while and the downloads were partly very quick, but partly very lousy, concerning the rates. I once tried to open up the same torrent under µtorrent 1.6.0 (later 1.6.1), using WINE. The rates were partly 5 or 6 times as high (they grew from 4.5 kb or so to 50-70kb), with the same upload limitation.

So - how come? I notice a lot of seeders refusing sharing their files to people who use KTorrent as I was blocked very often. Can I avoid that in any way, as I would rather like to use KTorrent over µtorrent - KDE native over WINE emulated.

Thanks in advance

regards,
cg

funkyou · 2007-02-18 17:05:26

How did you noticed that you were blocked?

(I refer now to the german translation of ktorrent)

"Abgewiesen" = "Ja" doesnt mean that you are blocked, it just means that the other peer is too busy right now and your client shall try it later...

KTorrent is very fast here... Do you use upnp or do you have set the ports manually? I have forwarded the bittorrent ports from my router to my computers ip and entered them in ktorrent, and since then ktorrent flies...

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-02-18 17:13:10

Well, I have a Linksys WAG54G ADSL2+-gateway for internet connection and it has a register for port forwarding - I should create an entry here and pass this settings on to KTorrent by using this port?

Did I understand correctly?

And : Concerning the blockings you're right. I misunderstood that.

Snarkout · 2007-02-18 18:20:24

I use ktorrent - it's always seemed just as fast as any other client I've tried. I think it would be very hard to benchmark 2 clients w/o running them on the same torrent at the same time.

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#1 2007-02-18 16:48:29

Why is KTorrent so much slower?

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Re: Why is KTorrent so much slower?

#3 2007-02-18 17:13:10

Re: Why is KTorrent so much slower?

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Re: Why is KTorrent so much slower?

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