Azureus Settings and Download Speed

[alejandro.maschiotakis]

New to Linux. 4 to 6 months. Having some trouble with Azureus. Downloads start, but then they turn brown and 0 Kb/s. I have the three lights with a healthy green, no NAT or DB problems at all. I'll give as much information as possible. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Have a 640K connection. Let me know if I have to give more information. What I need is someone to tell me if my settings for Azureus are ok. And if my router port forwarding and configuration is ok.

Hardware and OS:

AMD Turion 64 MK36 (in a notebook)
1,5G of RAM
OS: Ubuntu 7.04 64bit
Edimax Wireless Super-G ADSL Modem Router
Java: 5.0, not up to date there cause I need to run Firefox 32 bit with Flash plugins, so I needed the 32 bit edition. Hence I don't have the latest Firefox.
Connection: 640K ADSL Connection Wireless
Modem Router: Edimax Modem Router Wireless Super-G ADSL2+ Modem Router

AR-7024Wg

My Router Configuration:

NAT Setting Enabled
Virtual Server with Port 58349 UDP and TCP Portforwarded
DMZ: Enabled with my IP

Here are all my settings for Azureus:

Connection
Incoming TCP Port 58349
Incoming TCP Port 58349
Select the default permitted sources for peer connections
Peer Sources
From a tracker Selected
Descentralized tracking Selected
Supplied by another peer Selected
Added by a plugin Selected
Networks
Select the default permitted networks for peer-peer data transmissions
Public IP networks Selected
I2P Network Selected
The Onion Router (Tor) Network Selected

Prompt for selection when a download with an anonymous tracker is added Selected

Proxy Options
NOTHING SELECTED

Advanced netwok settings
Max simultaneous outbound connection attemps 16
Bind to local IP Address
Bind to local port 0
Line Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) 1500
Socket SO_SNDBUF size 0
Socket SO_RCVBUF size 0
Outgoing packet type-of-service (TOS)

Transport Encryption
NOTHING SELECTED

Transfer
Kb/s global max upload speed 30
Alternate rate when only seedieng Not selected
Per torrent max upload speed when busy timer [sec] 30
Kb/s max download speed 70
Max upload slots per torrent default 4
Alternate default when seeding Not selected
Max connections per torrent default 25
Max connection globally 200
Allow multiple connections from the same IP Selected
Use lazy bitfield Selected
Prioritize first and last piece of files Selected
Further pioritize High priority files according to % complete and size of file Not selected
Ignore peers with these data ports 0

Auto-Speed
These limits will only be applied when automatic upload speed is enabled and also require the distributed database to be enabled
Kb/s minimum upload speed 1
Kb/s maximum upload speed 30
Enable when downloding and seeding Not selected
Enable when only seeding Not selected
Enable download speed adjustment Not selected
Download: Upload speed ratio In grey (Unable to select)
Kb/s maximum increase per cycle 1
Kb/s maximum decrease per cycle 4
Choking ping time [miliseconds] 500
Factor used to link latency changes tp speed changes 50
Log debug information Not selected

LAN
NOTHING SELECTED

Files
Default Directory Options
Default directory My desktop
Automatically download to default directory (No prompt) Not selected
Use best guess when choosing default save directory Selected
Update default directory to location last saved to Selected
Allocate and zero new files on creation Not selected
Truncate existing files that are too large Not selected
Enable incremental file creation [Required for FAT32 under Linux] Not selected
Re-check pieces when download is done Selected
Enforce exclusive file write access locking across torrents Selected
Use Fast Resume mode Selected
Update Resume data every 5
On crash-restart check entire file for completed pieces Not selected
Save peer connections for quick reconnects Selected
Maximum peers to save 512
Auto-prioritize files with extension None selected
Ignore Case Not selected
Confirm when deleting data Selected
Backup configuration files for recovery purposes Selected

Completion moving
NOTHING SELECTED

Torrents
Save .torrent files Selected
Save directory /home/myowndirectory/.azureus/torrents
Save backup Not selected
By default add new torrents in a stopped state Not selected
Import new torrents automatically Not selected
Files to ignore when creating torrents .DS_Store;Thumbs.db;desktop.ini

Decoding character sets
Default torrent encoding when selection required None
Always prompt when encoding choice available Not selected
Show less likely encodings Not selected
Consider all possible encodings Not selected

Removal rules
Automatically remove unauthorized torrents Not selected
Remove Azureus update torrents as the swarm requires Selected

Performance options
Friendly hash checking Not selected
Recheck smallest downloads first Selected
Enable disk cache Selected
Size of cache in MB 4
Do not cache files smaller than this (in KB) 1024
Perform read-aheads to reduce disk reads when uploading Not selected
Cache download data to reduce disk writes and also
decrease disk reads required for piece checking Selected
Write complete pieces to disk inmediately. Selected
Trace cache operations for diagnostic purposes Not selected
Maximum files opened for read/write 50
Maximum write requests queued 5
Maximum read requests queued 5

Interface (Only settings that matter)
Mode
User Proficiency Advanced

IP filters
Enable Not selected
ALLOW these ranges Not selected
Save blocked IP details across restarts Selected
Block peers that consistently send bad data Selected
Store IP descriptions in scratch files Selected
Ban a block of 256 addresses when at least this many
in the block have been banned 4
NOTHING WRITTEN IN THE SPACE BELOW

Plugins
All checked and green (as default)

Bot settings
As default

IRC settings
As default

Distributed DB
Enable the distributed database Selected
Reseed
IP address
Port 0
Log IP Filter violations Selected
Enable advanced settings Not selected
Diagnostics command print
Enable tracing of activity Not selected

Distributed tracker
Only track normal torrents whn their tracker is unavailable Selected

IRC
As default

LAN peer finder
NOTHING SELECTED

Tracker web
NOTHING SELECTED

UPnP
Enble UPnP Selected
Map ports even if owned by another computer Not selected
Release mappings on closedown Not selected
Report succesful mappings Not selected
Report ports owned by another computers Selected
Report problems with the UPnP device Selected
Selected interfaces
Ignore devices that fail to respond correctly Selected

NAT-PMP
NOTHING SELECTED

Statistics
NOTHING SELECTED

Tracker
Client
Enable scraping Selected
Scrape torrents that aren't running Not selected
Disable per-tracker scrape aggregation Not selected
Send Java version and OS name Selected
Enable UDP tracker protocol Selected
Show warning messages reported by trackers Selected
Override options NOTHING SELECTED
Connection timeout (secs) 120
Read timeut (secs) 60
Enable key passing to tracker for enhanced security Not selected
Use different peer identities for tracker and data communication Not selected

Server
Tracker external IP address NOTHING
Enable tracker on HTTP port Not selected
Enable tracker on HTTPS port Not selected
Enable external torrents Not selected
Ensure this tracker's URL's are present in hosted torrents Selected
Enable password in tracker web Not selected
Enable passwords in torrents Not selected
Tracker client poll interval (secs)
Minimum 120 Maximum 3600
Increase by 60 Every 'n' client 10
Scrape interval as %age of announce 200 Crape cache 5000
Announce cache enable peer threshold 500 Announce cache 500
Maximum peers returned 100
Max seeds retained per torrent 0
Check 'incoming data port' connectability Selected 15
Send peer identity to downloaders Selected
Enable UDP tracker protocol Not selected
Enable compact announce protocol Selected
Log periodic statistics to 'tracker.log' Not selected
Enable key passing to tracker for enhanced security Selected
Networks
Public IP Network Selected
I2P Network Selected
The Onion Router (Tor) Network Selected
Processing limits
Max time for GET processing 20
GET time multiplier for POST processing 1
Max concurrent requests 48
Non-blocking options NOTHING SELECTED

Security
As default

Sharing
Protocol for shared resources HTTP
Private torrent – only accept peers from the tracker Not selected
Allow decentralized tracking when tracker is unavailable Selected
Add hasehs for other networks Selected
Enable periodic rescanning of shares for changing Not selected
Comment for generated torrents NOTHING

Logging
Enable logging Not selected
Enable verbose UDP transport trace Selected

Queue
Max simultaneous downloads 4
Max active torrents 4
Max when only seeding Not selected
Don't count torrent as using a download slot if speed is below 512/s
Don't count completed torrent as using a slot if speed is below 512/s
Move newly completed torrents to the front of the seeding list Selected
Show confirmation popup when stopping seeding with a share ratio lower than 1 Selected
Log debug information Not selected

Seeding
Minimum seeding time in seconds 180
Disconnect seeds when seeding Selected
Use Super Seeding Selected
Automatically reposition torrents based on Seeding Rank Not selected
Consider 'add for seeding' downloads to have dwnloaded this number of copies 1
Pretend there's 1 full copy for every 0

Auto Starting
Peers: Seed Ratio Selected
When torrents have the same rank, prefer larger swarms Selected
Lower Seeding Rank for torrents with no seeds and less than 1 Peers
Auto Start all completed torrents with 0 peers Not selected

Frist Priority
First priority goes to torrent with Any
A share ratio under 1:2 (0.5)
An elapsed time since the start of the downloading Ignore
An elapsed time since changing from downlaoding to seeding Ignore
Torrents with a seeds to peers ratio over Ignore
Torrents with 0 peers Not selected

Ignore rules
Ignore torrents with at least 0
Ignore torrents that have at least one seed for 0
But only for torrents with at least 0
Ignore torrents that have a share ratio of 0:0
But only for torrents with at least 0
Ignore torrents with 0 peers Selected

[alejandro.maschiotakis]

Up up up up up

[dre4mer]

yes azureus can be painful to get going
you mention that you live in Argentina have you checked this page to see

Bad ISPs - AzureusWiki

whether your ISP is the one blocking your connection? due to increased dsl traffic, ISP's are taking dramatic measures they like to call 'traffic shaping' but in reality they are simply blocking the whole thing. if you ISP is blacklisted, be sure to enable RC4 encryption and retry downlading. keep us updated here we ll try to help whenever we can

[alejandro.maschiotakis]

Hi Dre4mer, thanks for replying, I was quite surprised cause I posted several weeks ago, still thanks for doing so. Though I have to tell you I'm using utorrent via wine, its just much more simple to configure, almost a one step thing. And everyone here in Argentina has problems with Azureus, I've checked in the past the blacklisted ISPs, mine used to be one of them years ago, but my ISP nowadays is a good one, it doesn't reduce or block port or connection band. Still I had problems to make Azureus work, so I turned to Utorrent, I don't like it cause I don't like to depend on .exe applications, still, it looks like the best thing at the moment.

So anyway, thanks for replying, and well that's it, good luck to you Dre4mer and thanks again!

[dre4mer]

well glad to hear you got something running for torrents. without them internet is just boring. wish i could help. have a great day.