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[LoRes]

Why am I downloading at 20kb/s best, and these other guys are downloading at 300 to 3000 kbs? I've been downloading for about 20 hours now.

[kluelos]

I believe you've made some invalid conclusions about others' download speeds, which is not something you can really know.

As for your own speed, I notice you have only locally-initiated connections, and no remote ones. That usually means you've got a firewall blocking your listen port, which will cause this and will greatly slow you down.

[realutd7]

how can you check if you have a firewall blocking your listen port??

and how can you change this?

[kluelos]

The lack of remote connections is a pretty conclusive indicator, but you can check the port specifically, at www.canyouseeme.org. To unblock it, you need to determine what firewalls you are using (if you don't know, then you likely have at least SP2's built-in firewall running, and maybe others) and create exceptions for programs like BitComet that you want to allow access. Your rule needs to allow both TCP and UDP.

[Jaded_one]

The lack of remote connections is a pretty conclusive indicator, but you can check the port specifically, at www.canyouseeme.org. To unblock it, you need to determine what firewalls you are using (if you don't know, then you likely have at least SP2's built-in firewall running, and maybe others) and create exceptions for programs like BitComet that you want to allow access. Your rule needs to allow both TCP and UDP.

I have SP2 firewall running but whenever I try to configure the settings to allow a rule for exception a message appears that says "Due to an unidentified problem, Window's firewall cannot display windows firewall settings."