[11NG-Ben1642]

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Can anyone help me? I'll start by telling you what 'gear' I'm using:

Talk Talk 8Mb broadband: Netgear DMP111 modem, Netgear WNR854T Wireless N router, a Toshiba Equium laptop running Vista (pah!) Home Premium and Vuze as my torrent client.

I use Vuze to access community based and user made files. I'm having terrible trouble getting decent download speeds, these speeds as I type this are very low. I'll put the most pertinent info here:

File name Seeds Peers DownSpeed UpSpeed Tracker
abc123 34(2147) 7(1106) 134 B/s 0 B/s OK (dht

I've set up port forwarding on my router for a specified port and checked it on Vuze, which states it's OK!

However, a warning message pops up and says cannot connect on port xxxxxxx.

Also, I found that changing the channel of my router had a brief speed up effect. What does changing a router channel do?

Please help me as I'm reluctant to spend 11 days downloading a file from the community (no I'm not into pirated stuff). Can someone recommend some good settings for me?!?!?

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[oakie]

good place to start would be check thinkbroadband :: Viewing list of forums to find out if talk talk are connection throttling bit torrent traffic on your internet package, make sure you let vuze client through widows fire wall or any third party fire wall, make sure you set correct upload speed in vuze you want it 70-80% of your total connection upload speed, check to see if your router supports UpNp if it does enable it in vuze, check vuze support forum Vuze Forums: Forum Home for any similar problems.
To be honest i dont know i don't use vuze as its bloatware, could you not download the torrent with utorrent instead - maybe worth installing utorrent and download part of ubuntu distro as a test file (legal torrent) see if you have the same problems?