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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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abismu
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20. January 2006 @ 10:25 |
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Ok, well for computer specs, I have a 2.00 GHZ processor, 256 mb of ram, 20 gb hard drive, 64 mb g-card. i live in canada, and use a cable modem. umm, i set the upload rate to 40 kb/s, where my download speed is 2610 kbps or 326.3 KB/sec., and my upload speed is 324 kbps or 40.5 KB/sec. (i found those numbers doing a bandwidth test)
Now I want you all to conceive a new color. Have fun with that.
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fusion231
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21. January 2006 @ 15:20 |
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ok i have cox high speed internet(cable) and my bittorrent will only go like 20kb's max and thats if im lucky i dont have a firewall that i know of how can i make it go faster i use the original bittorrent
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biggermac
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abismu (Newbie) wrote: Ok, well for computer specs, I have a 2.00 GHZ processor, 256 mb of ram, 20 gb hard drive, 64 mb g-card. i live in canada, and use a cable modem. umm, i set the upload rate to 40 kb/s, where my download speed is 2610 kbps or 326.3 KB/sec., and my upload speed is 324 kbps or 40.5 KB/sec. (i found those numbers doing a bandwidth test)
Mentioning for the 66th time, you do not add all of your upload speed into the torrent program - at most put 80%. If your max is 40 KB/s then 80% of that what? 32? Try "30 KB/s" as max upload speed. for now anyway..
To Fusion231 in Canada: In Canada, I know there is some ISP, not sure if cable or modem, where you must use a certain port number for it to work well. scan the pages in this thread back until you find a relative post.. It might be Cox and it might not be..
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abismu
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21. January 2006 @ 18:33 |
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yeah i know i figured that out. i set it to 20, which is 50% of my total recommended upload speed. not even that helps.
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biggermac
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21. January 2006 @ 18:59 |
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abismu (Newbie) wrote: yeah i know i figured that out. i set it to 20, which is 50% of my total recommended upload speed. not even that helps.
Well, that will hurt that low.
However if you keep ending up in the same place and tried different settings and get a green light and you have treied several different torrent downloads and have waited for say 25 minutes into a torrent to see if it picks up, and important, if your upload speed is going well - you are seeing that if you put 30 KB/s in the max upload speed field, and so you are seeing maybe 25 or KB/s upload speed being dished out, I do not know what to say.
Try a different torrent program, like BitTornado perhaps.
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u from Canada and using rogers high speed?. use port 1720, I do and I get great speeds.
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gothkid
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ok, this isnt a problem with my modem, but im getting horrible slow dl speeds. common question. not with my cable modem. my bandwidth test reveals 4700 down and 456 up. thats not exactly 5kbps material. im usuing Azureus and its worked fine in the past, and these files arnt unseeded average 150 seeds available, im only able to connect to 8 after an hour of dling. i normally dl files slowest at 300kbps on the internet, i i know what im capable of. i've also tried changeing the port to no avail. plze help
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biggermac
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gothkid (Newbie) wrote: ok, this isnt a problem with my modem, but im getting horrible slow dl speeds. common question. not with my cable modem. my bandwidth test reveals 4700 down and 456 up. thats not exactly 5kbps material. im usuing Azureus and its worked fine in the past, and these files arnt unseeded average 150 seeds available, im only able to connect to 8 after an hour of dling. i normally dl files slowest at 300kbps on the internet, i i know what im capable of. i've also tried changeing the port to no avail. plze help
I don't know what it is with Azureus and it being a lot of people with problems that use it post here in this thread - maybe it is just that more people hear it is good and use it. I believe it works a smudge differently because it says it is Java run. Not that I know it is bad, people swear by Azureus too.
All of you - having problems - try stuff to eliminate or (hopefully) substantiate what the problem is or might be. Try a different torrent program.. It takes a minute to install another one. You can go back to Azureas once you have eliminated the possibility it was Azureas itself.
Me, I have always used BitTornado after a brief stint at 1st with BitTorrent. It is pretty easy to figure out - the main page, un-select "automatic" and choose either slow or fast DSL. That will put numbers in two boxes (fields). Max upload speed and max connections. You can change those (leave max connections at 4 for now). Max upload speed is of course as you know supposed to be set to 80% at most of what you know your true speed to be.
People (not everyone) are coming on here and asking for help yet you don't really let us know how torrent-savvy you actually are. How do I know where to start? How do any of us know if you understand upload settings for example, if you don't post many of your settings, and what you have tried?
Repost of a repost of a repost (of a repost) originally posted not that long ago:
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General Torrent Programs guideline.
This should cover most questions or problems you are having. I am not an expert. This is just from observations and from reading posts and trial and error, using BitTornado..
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(1) What program to use
Use a torrent program that implements a colored light system (or other system) that informs you of status as you download. The two I know that use a colored light system (I am sure there are others) are BitTornado (I use), and Azureus. This is because most problems are a firewall problem and the user will have a yellow light - you want a green light.
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(2) Firewalls.
A firewall is a blocker or filter. You can send stuff outbound (upload), however they will block most ports for incoming (think of a port as a hole for stuff to get in and go out). Firewalls are now necessary because there is so much evil stuff written that is trying to harm your computer - it is just floating around on the Internet and trying and trying to find a hole to enter your computer.
Almost everyone runs a Program that is a Firewall (software firewall). But if you use a router, by the nature of it's duties, it becomes a hardware firewall. You can use a router and also run a software firewall, but running 2 software Firewalls will probably cause problems. Running a router only can be sufficient, but you do not get the bells and whistles a software firewall gives you. Example - For an old P3 running Windows 98 computer on my home network, no software firewall is used, the router seems to do OK as a firewall. And by the way if you download torrents regularly, you know they can take hours or all day, an old $80 computer like my Windows 98 one I just mentioned, even one at 500 MHz, is plenty good enough to download torrents so you don't tie up your main computer and have response slowdowns with it. Another Example (no bells & whistles) - The router firewall won't pop up a window and say "such and such tried to infiltrate your computer", nor will it say anything about outgoing that you never used before and are just using for the 1st time (it won't ask you if it is OK go ahead and let it connect)..
Port forwarding: this means open a port for incoming. So in reference to a torrent program, you must "port forward" in a firewall that port or those ports that your torrent program uses. Now you see, if you have a router (hardware firewall) and are running a software firewall as well, you must open up the ports used in both Firewalls not just one.
Now there is another way to open up ports. This is only for software Firewalls and only affects a software firewall.. You can just exclude your torrent exe program from the firewall. All ports will be open when you run the torrent. Here is an example - if you use Windows XP's firewall, click on control-panel/firewall, and you'll see one of the commands you can click is "Exceptions". In there listed are programs like Yahoo Messenger. You need to add your torrent program to the list.
Norton anti-virus 2005 .. Since I run Norton SystemWorks 2005 which has anti-virus in it, I know the anti-virus program itself runs a firewall, but it does not call it such. It probably asked you when you 1st installed Norton if it was OK to shut off the XP firewall (or any I suppose) and you probably ticked "OK do it". So, you've got to find where to add to exclude or ignore your torrent program if you didn't tell it OK before. (look for the "options' tab to be able to change/add things).
Finally on Firewalls and ports - don't use the default ports of 6881- 6889 (or whatever they are). There are 65000 port or so. Use a port or ports range above 20000. Me, I use ports in the 55000 range. If you only do one torrent at a time (recommended) you should only need to use one port (they call it a listening port I believe) and not a field of ports. (At least one port is all I need for BitTornado.). Plus remember - if you are using a router and especially used as your only firewall, then the more ports you forward, you increase the chances of some kind of a security breach when surfing the Internet.
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(3) Download one torrent at a time (until you become good at it and recognize when 2 at a time would work better).
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(4) never use any "automatic" setting.
For Example - In BitTornado by default the max upload speed is ticked to be automatic, so instead choose slow or fast DSL/cable which then will allow you to tweak the numbers it adds in the max upload speed box (and the max uploads or connections box). (See next for what numbers).
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(5) You must upload well to be able to download well
Very important rule: The whole peer to peer torrent style network is based on people not being able to "cheat", meaning you cannot choose to not share in the upload process and still be able to download fast. So remember that you must upload well to be able to download well. The faster you upload the faster you'll download (in theory).
I'd guess that most of us in the United States who have broadband (1/2 of computer users here perhaps??) can upload at 250 Kbps (31 KB/s) either with cable or fast DSL. I have 400 Kbps (50 KB/s) upload and it's becoming more common (I have cable & 4000 Kbps down). When I had 250 Kbps up (3000 down) I did OK, really, just about as well as with my higher speeds I have now.. The DSL speeds and plans will vary a lot more than cable speeds and plans. There are different types of DSL that work a bit differently than other types. Some people have DSL then find out they only have 350 Kbps download and 80 Kbps upload or something similar. OK for surfing quickly, but for torrents, not good. Since dial up is 56 Kbps up and down, that 80 or 100 Kbps upload you might have is not that much faster than dial-up.
Don't think because you have a 2000 Kbps (2 Mbps or 225 KB/s) download rate or more means that you should be getting that when you download. Even with great upload speeds an average of 600 Kbps (75 KB/s) download speed is very good. Some really popular torrents, with seeds up the butt to like 50 seeds and 50 peers and you can get 1 Mbps download (1000 Kbps / 125 KB/s). I've gotten 2 Mbps a few times. Once I hit 3 Mbps and I do not know what was going on there.
You actually are never downloading a solid speed - what you are doing is getting uploads from others and the torrent program combines the pieces. If you are getting a fast 1 Mbps download rate (125 KB/s) you are really getting uploads from several other computer sources which like you have limited upload rates..
Speeds will always be slow when you start out, and show a yellow light. You must get enough of a torrent to be able to begin to share before your upload speed starts going up, and after your upload speed starts going up give it a few minutes and your download speed should start to increase. You should get a green light after you have several people joined and start to upload faster (say maybe 5 minutes into the torrent).
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(6) Kbps, KB/s, Mbps - wtf is all of this?
(a) Kbps and KB/s are vastly different speeds or transfer rates. It is not the slash ( / ) that makes the difference, it is the large letter "B" Vs a small letter "b". OK remember B = Bytes and b = bits. It takes 8 bits to equal a byte. Everyone always used to use Kbps (bits) and the ISPs (Internet service providers) I've seen always use (appropriately so) Kbps too. I do not know how B and Bytes got started, but now everyone is confused. Torrent programs want speed entered in KB/s and your ISP tells you in Kbps. You must convert to put a value in a torrent program. Divide Kbps by 8 to get KB/s. If you have 200 Kbps upload then for the torrent program that is 25 KB/s.
-There is one more step though before you add in your max upload speed into a torrent program.
(b) Torrent programs need to use some upload bandwidth to work right. If you entered in all of your upload speed into the max-upload-speed box in the torrent program, it I going to choke when it reaches speed up past 80% of that. A rule of thumb is to only tell a torrent program 75% to 80% of what your actual upload speed really is. This leaves the extra 20% to the torrent program which needs it to work well in. OK. If you know you have 25 KB/s upload speed, 80% of that is 20 KB/s. Put 20 in the max upload speed box.
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(7) Maximum uploads (not maximum upload speed)
Leave this to 4 unless you know 5 or 6 might be better. (experiment later once you've gotten good download speeds). I'd say don't tick it up past 4 unless you have 400 Kbps (50 KB/s) upload capability, but research more on this if you want to add more connections.
Still in reference to connections (or "max uploads" in BitTornado, and not "max upload speed") I am guessing here with a slight hint of knowledge but could be way off on this observation - I believe this is the number of computers you are uploading to at one time. And if for example, you upload at 25 KB/s, then 4 computers should be receiving from you about 6 KB/s each.. If you tick 5 connections then 5 computers get 5 KB/s each, however if you serve too many computers, each receiving less a chunk of good speed upload from you, it might effect the formula that the torrent programs use to determine if you are uploading well and then stiff you of download speed.
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(8) I believe older computer operating systems like the Windows 98 line does not understand UPnP. The torrent program might have UPnP turned on. Also in your router (if you use one of course) you might have UPnP on or off. It might be worth experimenting with these settings. I myself have shut off UPnP in my torrent program and in my router, and even on my Win XP computer it seemed to work well downloading a torrent.
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(9) Different torrents are going to be different speeds - even if you download two different ones in a row (one after the other was finished) and they had the exact same seeds and peers numbers, one might download at 800 Kbps (100 KB/s) and the other at 400 Kbps (50 KB/s), you never know.(
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(10) Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) tries to stop WORMs. Before they could proliferate with many connections at one time. In so doing this SP2 fix, it limits (I think) what might be called "half connections" to 10 (research this further yourself, terminology might be wrong on my part). Unfortunately this causes havoc with older style P2P programs, and might effect your torrent speed too in such a way as that if you lose a computer in your group that was uploading to you, getting connected to another source might take a while, and you'll see your speeds vary a lot as you watch during a download. There is a so-called "fix" called the LVLord fix. Google "LVLord". This fix involves entering automatically into your registry do be careful save your registry before you run it. Put in "1000" into the field instead of 10. You will get a warning when you run this fix, and if you get afraid and abort, of course the fix won't work. If you do at some point ever be infected with a WORM, you will be a big source of the problem.
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(11) Some settings you change might not go into effect until you close your torrent program and open it up again. For example in BitTornado on the main page I can change the upload max speed setting OK and it does into effect immediately, but if I changed on a 2nd page the ports used, that wouldn't go into effect until the next time I open BitTornado.
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gothkid
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22. January 2006 @ 16:27 |
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ok, i learned alot from that post and now i know that i download at about 625 KB/s and UP at about 50 KB/s. on Azureus with the settings u told me i get about 50 kbps down running one torrent. any way i can get faster, only thing i tried different was moving slots up to 25 instead of 4 got better speeds.
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Delyera
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24. January 2006 @ 02:03 |
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Eh, I'm having the "slow" torrent problems as well - download speed around 8 KiB/s, upload speed around 31 KiB/s. I am on a wireless connection (I suspect this might be the problem) and use a Macintosh G4 with BitTorrent Client Download. Most of the time I have 2-4 seeds and 11-14 peers.
It's probably the wireless connection though, isn't it? These things are supposed to go much faster when you connect directly into the walls, aren't they?
Yet I did plug an ethernet cord directly from the Mac to the port in the wall and the connections slowed to 0 KiB/s. That doesn't seem right.
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raven069
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24. January 2006 @ 06:57 |
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Hey guys im new to this i just downloaded bitlord and Azureus and i find my download a bit slow since every body is talking about ttheir downloads being more than 100 kBps. i was hoping if some one can help me.im downloading a 25 episode anime and its going to take more than 50 hours on both btclient, plzz someone help me.
I dont have a router, i have cable modem , motorola surfboard 4200 cable modem model. OS is Winxp my conection my advertise conection is 256/256 And both bt client are downloading less than 30 kbps. i think that i have foward my ports but it did nothing so any suggestions? plzzzzzzzz reply im desperate.
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biggermac
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24. January 2006 @ 07:50 |
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Delyera (Newbie) wrote:
Eh, I'm having the "slow" torrent problems as well - download speed around 8 KiB/s, upload speed around 31 KiB/s. I am on a wireless connection (I suspect this might be the problem) and use a Macintosh G4 with BitTorrent Client Download. Most of the time I have 2-4 seeds and 11-14 peers.
It's probably the wireless connection though, isn't it? These things are supposed to go much faster when you connect directly into the walls, aren't they?
Yet I did plug an ethernet cord directly from the Mac to the port in the wall and the connections slowed to 0 KiB/s. That doesn't seem right.
Wireless connections are faster than you think. The older wireless B which is hard to dond these days was 11,000 Kbps. Wirless G is 54,000 Kbps (54 Mbps) and nowadays wireless super-G is 108 Mbps (108,000 Kbps). Allowing for some distance or a wall (connection not good), lets say you only get 1/2 of that. So even if you had the old wiress B, 1/2 of 11,000 Kbps is lets just say 6000 Kbps. Well, look - thast is still much faster than fast cable at 4000 Kbps download 400 upload, or fast DSL at around those number.
A router is a firewall - did you read the post about 3 posts up that I posted that covers a whole lot of all of this? Upload speed setting is very important.. And a firewall will greatly reduces incoming speed - your speeds indicatew you are uploading well, so I'd start there. If you had a colored light system in that torrent program indicating status, it would really help letting you know..
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biggermac
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Hey guys im new to this i just downloaded bitlord and Azureus and i find my download a bit slow since every body is talking about ttheir downloads being more than 100 kBps. i was hoping if some one can help me.im downloading a 25 episode anime and its going to take more than 50 hours on both btclient, plzz someone help me.
I dont have a router, i have cable modem , motorola surfboard 4200 cable modem model. OS is Winxp my conection my advertise conection is 256/256 And both Btu client are downloading less than 30 Kbps. i think that i have foward my ports but it did nothing so any suggestions? plzzzzzzzz reply im desperate.
It all depends on the number of participants. 30 KB/s = 240 Kbps. If it is a small number of participants then this might be all you can get..
I do not understand you saying "256/256" = are you saying your ISP gives you an upload speed of 256 Kbps upload max and the same thing doweled is 256 Kbps - this is an odd cable download speed if so - but if this is true you are already downloading at your max.
"And both Btu client" - what does that mean - are you doing two at a time? One.. Do one at a time, at least for now and until you understand the circumstances where two at a time might be OK..
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gothkid
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24. January 2006 @ 12:00 |
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eh, what about me and my 50 to 40k is that slow?
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biggermac
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ok, this isnt a problem with my modem, but im getting horrible slow dl speeds. common question. not with my cable modem. my bandwidth test reveals 4700 down and 456 up. thats not exactly 5kbps material. im usuing Azureus and its worked fine in the past, and these files arnt unseeded average 150 seeds available, im only able to connect to 8 after an hour of dling. i normally dl files slowest at 300kbps on the internet, i i know what im capable of. i've also tried changeing the port to no avail. plze help
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ok, i learned alot from that post and now i know that i download at about 625 KB/s and UP at about 50 KB/s. on Azureus with the settings u told me i get about 50 kbps down running one torrent. any way i can get faster, only thing i tried different was moving slots up to 25 instead of 4 got better speeds.
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eh, what about me and my 50 to 40k is that slow?
Gothkid, I see that you understand that 50 KB/s (KB/s is used by torrent programs) is the same as 400 Kbps (Kbps - most ISPs tell you your speed in this and a lot of people use this when talking connection speeds).
Remember that you will never download at your full capability. Your download speed is actually bits of the download some different sources are sending you, and the torrent program combines them. Sometimes, even with a well participated in torrent, you might only get as a download speed 400 or 500 Kbps (about 62 KB/s). Most stuff you'd have to happy with getting 600 Kbps (75 KB/s). Some very popular torrents 1 Mbps (same as 1000 Kbps or 125 KB/s) is what you can expect at some point. Sometimes but rarer is a 2 Mbps download. That is about all you'll get at most, though one time I hit 3 Mbps for a little while. But let me emphasize 600 Kbps (75 KB/s is what you'd have to be happy getting.
But I am not sure about your question? 150 seeds - With Bit Tornado I've never seen that many seeds (full copies) with any download). Peers - yes I've seen some that have over 200 peers and maybe 50 or 60 seeds.
> "only thing I tried different was moving slots up to 25 instead of 4 got better speeds."
If this is the same as "max connections" in BitTornado, try 5 or 6 to see because you have a fast upload speed. I wouldn't try 25.
If you download and install BitTornado I might be able to help more..
Anyway, mention again what you want to know (what the problem is). I am not taking it all in... and - Mention the download speed you get at best when involved with popular torrent, and tell me what the upload speed is when you are downloading as best vyou can also. You do hasve a green warning light? What ports are being used you should mention also. What state or country do you live in?
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24. January 2006 @ 14:30 |
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Yea i also have a problem with the download speeds for bit torrent the original one.
I have t-1 line (cable) and i am only gettin 3-4 kbs per sec.
I do have zonealarm as a firewall. Anyone have any ideas?
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Yea i also have a problem with the download speeds for bit torrent the original one.
I have t-1 line (cable) and i am only gettin 3-4 kbs per sec.
I do have zonealarm as a firewall. Anyone have any ideas?
thanks
Count upwards on this page each posting. About 10 posts up is a large post by me. That covers a lot of it.
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gothkid
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ok, normal files from ftp and internet i dl at about 500 to 1000 KB/s, so i actually dl past my normal max, depends on time of day i suppose, either way my usual bandwidth is 5000 down talking in bits, and about 500 up. not slow. i set to 25 because i up to all of them at once at about 2kB/s so i though i was ok, but is that to slow to give? that should i be "giving" to others to get the most back from them. in bytes per sec please. and im usuing port 39751 btw. also behind zonealarm but when i turn it of same speeds, zonealarm allows that port so.
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ok, normal files from ftp and internet i dl at about 500 to 1000 KB/s, so i actually dl past my normal max, depends on time of day i suppose, either way my usual bandwidth is 5000 down talking in bits, and about 500 up. not slow. i set to 25 because i up to all of them at once at about 2kB/s so i though i was ok, but is that to slow to give? that should i be "giving" to others to get the most back from them. in bytes per sec please. and im usuing port 39751 btw. also behind zonealarm but when i turn it of same speeds, zonealarm allows that port so.
> i set to 25 because i up to all of them at once at about 2kB/s so
> i though i was ok, but is that to slow to give?
I still do not fully understand - are you saying you are downloading more than one torrent at a time? If so, this not a good idea. One at a time, man!
See, if you are splitting your upload bandwidth, the software of each file-sharing circle you are in individually sees less KB/s per upload by you and so cuts backs on your download.
So to more than one at a time, I am speculating here how your torrent program works, but I will throw this out - for multiple downloads 25 KB/s is an OK upload speed to receive good download speed, but if you did 3 at a time and put 25 KB/s in each as max upload speed, then 25 + 25 + 25 is 75 KB/s, so if each reached full potential uploading, that total of 75 KB/s (600 KB/s) exceeds what 80% of your max upload speed is at 500 KB/s up, and so you will thus choke the torrent program in all 3.
I am speculating again but i think thisd is how it works - only occasionally more than one at a time would be work well - example: if you see a couple of very small participated in downloads you want to grab, like a few seeds and maybe only 5 or 10 or so other participants (peers), then because you won't be uploading to others that much, your upload speed for each, even if you did one at a time, might only maximize at half of what you have available anyway, so in a case like this I figure why not(?).
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Remember that you will never download at your full capability
I have a 2.2mbps connection, and I use registered trackers, and usually download things at about 250KB/s, which is very close to my full capacity, if not at the max..
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whazzup
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25. January 2006 @ 10:20 |
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i tried downloading the BitTornado but when i shut zone alarm off the think downloads at the same speed.
Also after i switched ports it got like 3 kb/s faster, it helped a little. Any other suggestions?
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whazzup
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25. January 2006 @ 10:47 |
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what does allocating mean?
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gothkid
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25. January 2006 @ 13:45 |
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ok downloading one at a time sorry, i get about30kB now but still slow, i thought maybe im not giving enough whats better spread thin give little or give to small amount at fast speed. aka how many with those connection speeds(500KBPS down 61 up) should i set for maximum connections
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I have a 2.2mbps connection, and I use registered trackers, and usually download things at about 250KB/s, which is very close to my full capacity, if not at the max..
-Mike
Hi Mike. That was more meant for most people that have broadband through cable in the United States (or very fast DSL). Cable is usually at least 250 Kbps up and 3000 Kbps down, but Comcast and some other Internet through cable TV lines have graduated to 400 up and 4000 down. I have reached over the 2 Mbps barrier myself with very popular torrents, but I have never hit 4 Mbps.. One time only I did hit 3 Mbps, at least for a little while..
However most are less than 2 Mbps for us that use torrent search engines and don't register anywhere.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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25. January 2006 @ 17:44 |
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whazzup (Newbie) writes:
Yea i also have a problem with the download speeds for bit torrent the original one.
I have t-1 line (cable) and i am only gettin 3-4 kbs per sec.
I do have zonealarm as a firewall. Anyone have any ideas?
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i tried downloading the BitTornado but when i shut zone alarm off the think downloads at the same speed.
Also after i switched ports it got like 3 kb/s faster, it helped a little. Any other suggestions?
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what does allocating mean?
wazzup, is that all of your posts?
Anywho, information! You give little. What color is the light telling you your status when in a torrent circle and going as best you can? What is your upload speed doing (post the speed)?
A T1 line - it says it is only 1.5 Mbps but it is dedicated.. is that supposed mean any up any down you can combine? o be how much up, and how much down? 10 Mbps both ways? 5? more than 10?
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gothkid (Newbie) writes:
ok downloading one at a time sorry, i get about30kB now but still slow, i thought maybe im not giving enough whats better spread thin give little or give to small amount at fast speed. aka how many with those connection speeds(500KBPS down 61 up) should i set for maximum connections
60 KB/s up (almost 500 Kbps), so you figure 75% to 80% of that is what 48 KB/s.. Be safe and put 40 in there, at least for now (it is plenty fast enough to get a good return on download speed).. If you tested recently and not at a local test site, To be sure:
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
Test at more than one place - at least one that is distant to you..
Down doesn't matter thats way high already you will never reach it.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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