I'm trying to download kubuntu intrepid ibex through torrenting but the speed is close to nil although there are 511 seeders. I have guarddog firewall installed but have enabled the bittorrent tracker and peer options, what's wrong and how do I correct this problem?

when I do a firewall test using azureus, I get the following results:

Testing port 60640 ...
NAT Error - Connection to <censored IP>:60640 (your computer) refused
Proxy IP is '<censored IP>', original is '<censored IP> ('Forwarded-For' request header was '<censored IP>').

I'm using port 60640 for both tcp udp listening port

nmap router IP yields:

PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp closed ftp
25/tcp closed smtp
53/tcp closed domain
80/tcp open http
110/tcp closed pop3
143/tcp closed imap
443/tcp open https
465/tcp closed smtps
993/tcp closed imaps
6881/tcp closed bittorent-tracker (I'm using 60640 not 6881 for azureus)
6969/tcp closed acmsoda
8080/tcp closed http-proxy
8888/tcp closed sun-answerbook

when I do nmap 127.0.0.1, here are the results, what's the issue?

Not shown: 1708 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
631/tcp open ipp
8118/tcp open privoxy
9050/tcp open tor-socksport

btw, can anyone tell me how to make azureus start up automatically on boot and exit automatically on shutdown? other than editing rc.local

Have you opened up the port in your firewall?

Why not edit rc.local? That is what it is there for.

-JJ

I have guarddog firewall installed but have enabled the bittorrent tracker and peer options, could it be that the ports opened by guarddog for bittorrent either do not work or do not correspond to the ports used by azureus since they didn't specify which port was opened, only options to enable bittorrent traffic?

I have not used Guarddog in quite awhile. But if I remember correctly, Guarddog opens port 6800 and or 6801 by default for P2P traffic. You will need to plug in the value that azureus is using. (60640?). Most of the torrent software has moved away from the low 6800 ports due to being blocked by ISP's.

Have you looked at various firewall settings on the azureus web site? You will need to determine what ports azureus is using and then plug those ports into the firewall (Guarddog).

-JJ

You may also wish to enable encryption if Azureus supports it. I know my ISP throttles bittorrent traffic, and KTorrent was very slow until I enabled encryption (which sort of masks the fact that I am using torrents to my ISP). This may have no relevance if your speeds are VERY slow (then it might be a port issue), but I thought I would mention it nonetheless.

There is no standart port for bittorrent anymore. So make sure that azeurus uses port that forwarded by guarddog. I believe by default port might be random so it probably won't match guarddog's predefined settings.

there is ~/.kde/Autostart folder. Anything inside (scripts, documents, "KDE links") will be launched when you login into X desktop. Anyway, if you want bittorrent client to start when you start machine (not when you login), then using console bittorrent client with web interface (like mldonkey, also other people mentioned "deluge") will be better idea. You could place autostart into /etc/rc.d/rc.local, since console clients won't be dependant on X.