I have been experiencing some problems 'backing up' my CDs by downloading torrents.

They used to download very quickly, maybe a year or so ago. Then they just refused to download at all.

Tonight i tried again for the first time in ages and it has begun downloading, but i am only getting speeds of about 5-6Kb/s. I remember getting speeds of 80-100Kb/s before.

I have switched off my Windows Firewall. Should i try removing my NOD32 anti-virus?

Is there anything else i could check or do?

Thanks

i reckon you isp has throttled you torrent rtraffic

depending on your client you can disguise your traffic by encryption

Well its funny you mention that, because i have only just a few days ago changed from Tiscali to BTinternet.

I used to get good downloads with Tiscali, then it stopped altogether. Now changed to BT it is working but very slowly.

How do i disguise what i am downloading?

Any suggestions?

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How do i disguise what i am downloading?

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try using azeurus (sp) as the client its pretty easy to tick a few boxs to enable encryption

Also if the torrents are from a public tracker (no sign-up or download/upload ratio) they'll be sloooow.

What you need is a private site where you sign up, usually lightening-fast...

can you recommend any sign up sites that are not already packed to the gunnels?

here

Just signed up, first download I'm getting over 500kbps , I've never seen over 100 before! 3 hrs for a 6Gb download, that usually takes me days.....

Thanks for the recommendation, know where I'll be getting my torrents from now!

thanks jasper,

i just signed up to and immediately im getting over 300 kbps!

got to download 24 seasons 2-6 and at 8 gb each it may take a while.

[Edited on 19/6/08 by omega0684]

Here you go:

Torrentbytes