Warum laufen meine Torrents so langsam?
Most likely, the port you set for BitTorrent is not forwarded. If BitTorrent is displaying , then this is the case. There is also the possibility that the torrent is simply slow, especially those with small swarms (low numbers of seeders/peers). It is also possible that your firewall is blocking connections for BitTorrent. Make sure you set an exception for incoming and outgoing connections for BitTorrent in your firewall’s configuration! If you block ICMPs with your firewall (Windows Firewall blocks them by default), you should allow “Destination Unreachable” to aid the proper functioning of DHT (it works anyway though). If everything is set up fine, you will see in the status bar (to the left of DHT:) after you start a torrent and get an incoming connection. If it stays yellow, try a torrent with many peers to make sure there’s enough peers in the swarm to guarantee you getting an incoming connection. If you use an alternate firewall while on Windows XP SP1 or SP2, make sure you turn
