help! need some answers

[someguy]

Bitorrent is supposed to make me download as much as I upload, this thing is cheating me, i upload like 10kbps and download 1kbps. I have a bandwitdth of 500mb daily and im trying to download a 1gb file. It uses up it all on uploading while barley getting anything downloaded.

Is there something i can do or some patch to make it more fair? Something to stop this bitorrent thing from cheating me?

[Beeza]

no way for it to "cheat". Newer clients allow for bandwidth throttling but more you limit the slower you go. Since BT is based on a file made up of hundreds (or more) of pieces and you'll get the file from whoever has a peice its impossible for it to "cheat" someone. Torrents will go faster if there are more seeds out there for a particular torrent. The more ppl sharing one file = better speeds. Too many variables go into making fast speeds possible. Problem might not even be at your end. Could be congestion between you and another user, they could have an incorrectly set firewall/router, using other programs while running using BT etc.

If your running a firewall make sure it's set up correctly for BT, if you have a router make sure the ports are forwarded correctly for BT, you could try another client in the off chance that the client your running isn't compatable. You might also want to search out another torrent from another tracker to see if you fair better with it.