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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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typhoonjo
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3. February 2006 @ 10:14 |
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but now i have the flac files on a cd but can not play them anywhere except for my computer, so i guess my question is how do i convert them to smaller files, perhaps mp3 or wav or something like that, which i can burn and play in my car. thanks again for your time
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3. February 2006 @ 10:50 |
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Just google "flac converters" and take ur pick.
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3. February 2006 @ 14:11 |
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ive downloaded bit comet but dont how to use it
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typhoonjo
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3. February 2006 @ 20:05 |
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ive searched for flac converters and am overwhelmed, anybody have any recomendations that have worked well for you. thanks again.
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RatedA
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3. February 2006 @ 21:15 |
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Umm...about the speed problem, I have a DSL router, and I went into Firewall settings and added the ports in exceptions...Would that help?
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biggermac
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4. February 2006 @ 00:53 |
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(Newbie) wrote: the speed problem, I have a DSL router, and I went into Firewall settings and added the ports in exceptions...Would that help?
"Yes"...
Most people would just have a DSL "modem", however if you are sure you have do not just a DSL modem, but it is also a hybrid DSL modem/router (a DSL router as you say it is), then you need to log into the router and "port forward" those ports that your torrent program is using.
When you port forward a port, it means to punch a hole in a port to let incoming come in there, but it slightly weakens the defense of a firewall in keeping the bad stuff out that is trying to infect your computer when you go on the Internet.
But, you most likely also run a software firewall - which is a program specifically designed to be a defense in keeping bad stuff from infecting your computer. Windows XP SP2 has a basic firewall going. Or a well known firewall would be Zone Alarm if you installed it, or even Norton has a firewall program, or I have Norton Systemworks 2005 that includes Norton Anti-virus 2005, which is running firewall (it disabled my Windows XP firewall because you can't have 2 "software" firewalls going at the same time) even though it doesn't spcifically say "this part of the anti-virus is a firewall"..
Anyways - with a software firewall, this is where you can "exclude" or "exempt" your torrent exe program. But you could also do the same as you do with a router and port forward.
(A router, because it is a device, is a "hardware firewall").
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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RatedA
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4. February 2006 @ 10:00 |
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So how exactly would I portforward the ports on the HARD firewall?
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biggermac
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4. February 2006 @ 10:42 |
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> So how exactly would I portforward the ports on the HARD firewall?
I don't know. With my Netgear brand router, I "login" using Internet Explorer, using a address in the address bar, as if it was a website. Once inside I have a nice menu that easy to understand. Some routers are not so easy to understand their menu.
You have to know the address of your router, and know the I.D. and password to use. Your on your own finding out. Call your ISP if they supplied the modem/router, or call the manufacturer, or break out the paperwork that came with it, or try to find more info on the Internet.. iIf it never was changed, the default ID and password can be simple, like ID=brand-name-of-router and password = p a s s w o r d.
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RatedA
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4. February 2006 @ 12:04 |
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I have a Belkin router and my DSL is SBC YAHoo, is there a website i can go to to adust settings?
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biggermac
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4. February 2006 @ 12:28 |
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> I have a Belkin router and my DSL is SBC YAHoo,
> is there a website i can go to to adust settings?
Belkin probably makes more than one router model. You need the model number..
Man you are pretty much green at computer use (or too lazy to use a search engine)... You do know how to use a search engine like Google? Or Yahoo? Or MSN? Just input into the search field:
Belkin Router
And it brings up a lot of links, but better to refine the search with a model number, and you'll find all kinds of related stuff, maybe the Belkin website, maybe some forums like this one with talk going on about a Belkin router, etc etc..
There are probably wirelss B Belkin routers, wireless G, wireless super G, non-wireless, etc. Heck routers started with wirless A many years ago. Better use a model number. it's got to be written on the bottom or something..
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RatedA
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4. February 2006 @ 15:41 |
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Yeah I found a way to log into my account and set the virtual servers.
But I don't get the difference between inbound servers and private servers.
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RatedA
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4. February 2006 @ 16:06 |
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Also even after I had set up the virtual servers for ports 6881-6889, when I check that website it still showed that these ports were "Stealth"
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biggermac
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4. February 2006 @ 23:25 |
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> Yeah I found a way to log into my account and set the virtual servers.
> But I don't get the difference between inbound servers and private servers.
You and me both. Even Googling for "what is a virtual server" and getting the web definitions is not understandable by me. This is what I mean when I said some routers have a tough to use menu - having to set a virtual server or private server shouldn't even be there unless they explain what they mean right there in easy to understand English. I have not come accross those terms when logged into my router.
> Also even after I had set up the virtual servers for ports 6881-6889,
> when I check that website it still showed that these ports were "Stealth"
I can't help you much here either. I've never had the stealth thing happen to me but I've seen it several times mentioned as a problem with DSL modems.
Let me mention this though: ports 6881-6889 are the original ports used in the BitTorrent program. By defualt other torrent programs are probably set to use those ports too. But BitTornado (which I use) and Azureas and some other torrent porgrams let you use any of the 65,000 or there-about ports that are available to you. There is a small chance your ISP is messing with ports 6881-6889 because they know people that do torrents are using those ports and of course that generally means doing an illegal activity.
So if whatever torrent program you use does not let you re-assign the port range used, then chuck that program out the window and get one that does.
And BTW with BitTornado you only need to use one port if you only do one torrent at a time (recommended). Use ports way up like 57521 or 62345 (whatever)..
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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5. February 2006 @ 20:42 |
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I was getting modem resets all the time (every 120 secs) on my old DCM226 RCA modem, +
I just got a new modem as a last-ditch effort,
a MOtorola DOCSIS 2.0 modem from Frys, a surf-board SB5120,
since MOtorola is a great RF device mfr + has the broadest cable modem line, + this modem is approved by
Comcast, + the Zoom/ other modems were bad-mouthed on the web due to having a bad Texas Instrum chip set.
ANd DOCSIS 2.0 can't hurt, may be needed in future.
This was $75 from Frys in Fremont with a $20 mail-in rebate, a repackaged modem that had been returned, but it looked new and it was $3 off, haha.
>>THIS IMMEDIATELY FIXED the problem
with no other changes! BTW The modem is Cat-5 10/100 ethernet connected to a router and then to the
computer (a Athlon 64 Compaq Presario, refurbished from Frys, works fine).
And this was using a old LInksys BEFSR41 router between the modem and the computer, with no port forwarding
enabled. But forwarding did help later.
2. Bit COmet parameters (settings):
(I cant find any way to reset these params to default states in Comet !)
Since I was sort of surprised to see no info in Bit comet on how to set its settings, here is what works for me !
> Since I played with all the parameters in Bit Comet, I started getting bad download speeds, for one main reason-
I set the global max upload rate way above my UPLOAD rate on the cable, to 100 KBps,
since I was thinking the upload was the same as the download rate.
This made for fast uploading, but downloading stuck at ~ 1 to 20 kBps. instead of ~ 200 KBps or higher. (bytes/sec)
So I took the Comcast upload rate = 384 Kbps, divided by 8, and got 48 KBps max upload rate.
I set BItComet to <80% of this bandwidth, using your great help here, 34 KBps,
then lowered it to 28 KBps max upload total rate, and this works GREAT!
> So these settings work great on Bit COmet:
OPTIONS/PREFERENCES:
CONNECTION:
GLobal max download rate: No limit
Global max upload rate: 28 KBp
Max simul download tasks: 3
(Could be 1: I try to only do 1 torrent at a time unless it has << 50 peers).
Listen port: randomly chose one by pushing button.
And then I put that port num in the port forwarding page in the router. And put it in the Windows firewall exception list. ANd also set router fwding ports to 6881 to 6999.
TASK:
UPLOAD:
Max upload rate per task: no limit
min upload rate per taks: no limit.
ADVANCED:
Add DHT network as backup tracker: Yes (I think the .61 ver fixes this so this can be enabled? Not sure.)
CONNECTION:
Enable DHT network: yes.
Enabled uPNP port mapping: No (I set static IP in my XP machine + configed router.)
Max connections per task: 225
GLobal max upload slots: auto -- these auto settings give me: 5-10 upload slots usually.
Global min upload slots: auto
Max half open TCP connections: 10
Protocol header encrypt: auto detect.
These settings work great on COmcast so far !
My FireFox browser isn't slowed down now by BT, and torrents start gathering peers right away when started.
*** Thanks to all the posters on this board for the great info + help !!!!! ***
Mike
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listerboy
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7. February 2006 @ 16:30 |
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I am using Bit Comet 0.61 under Windows XP and I have used the Evil ID patch to change my open connections to 50. I have a modem that connects at 10mb down and 384 up but I don't seem to be getting great speeds. The highest I encountered was about 300 when my line maximum is over 1000 kbs. Is my low upload stopping me from achieving the best speeds, or are my settings incorrect?
Here are my basic settings. I have read all the FAQs I can find and have read all through this thread. Any help or advice you can give would be much appreciated.
Global max download is unlimited
upload is set at 33 as that seems to be my sweet spot.
my listening port is between 50000 and 60000
max peers to display is 100
max connections per task is 1000
connections to keep task is 100
max half open TCP connections is 40
UPnP is unticked.
Thanks for any help or advice you could give.
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MikeJ999
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7. February 2006 @ 20:59 |
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The 39 Kbaud upload speed sounds right...
I heard that 6969 is a popular listening port. I am using 9xxx since I got that from a 'random' button push.
Maybe your 50,000 is too high? But only if peers dont connect rite away, I guess...
I dont think 1000 connections per task is needed, just 250 or so... No one ever gets that many peers anyway I think ?
I think download rate will never get to full line speed,
unless you have like 100 peers and some seeds on a file.
*** The only way to really gauge your max BT speed, is to leech a recent torrent, like on Pirates Bay, with as big a seeds-to-peers ratio as possible, and max number possible of seeds and peers! Like ~ 100 peers. Right ?
I have gotten up to > 500 KBytes/s this way, with the OLD crappy modem haha. Must try this on new modem.
...Something else I gotta do: like a TV tech said on the Broadband site forum, tighten all your CATV cables with a WRENCH, AND even behind the wall plates, where there is another F connector that could be loose.
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listerboy (Newbie) wrote: I am using Bit Comet 0.61 under Windows XP and I have used the Evil ID patch to change my open connections to 50. I have a modem that connects at 10mb down and 384 up but I don't seem to be getting great speeds. The highest I encountered was about 300 when my line maximum is over 1000 kbs. Is my low upload stopping me from achieving the best speeds, or are my settings incorrect?
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Global max download is unlimited
upload is set at 33 as that seems to be my sweet spot.
my listening port is between 50000 and 60000
max peers to display is 100
max connections per task is 1000
connections to keep task is 100
max half open TCP connections is 40
UPnP is unticked.
Thanks for any help or advice you could give.
Listerboy, you said "I have a modem that connects at 10mb down and 384 up but I don't seem to be getting great speeds." And you said "The highest I encountered was about 300 when my line maximum is over 1000 kbs." I take it then that "300" is 300 Kbps (1000 bits per second) , and is not what torrent programs use, which is KB/s (1000 Bytes per second) (a Big letter B vs a small letter b the important factor).. Well I guess so because 300 KB/s = 2400 Kbps and you had a max of 1000 Kbps..
OK 384 Kbps max upload is what I have with my cable company in California. It's pretty good, I think only a small percentage of Internet users have better than 400 Kbps up. I have 4000 Kbps down. I'll never achieve 4000 Kbps in a torrent. But for real popular torrents I've gotten over 2 Mbps (2000 Kbps / 250 KB/s). 1 Mbps I have to be happy with on popular torrents. Getting 500 Kbps to 600 Kbps (600 Kbps = 75 KB/s) I have to happy with on not so popular torrents. Your download speed you get is not a true stream, it is a combination of other's upload speeds feeding you.
But for real popular torrents, I believe uploading at 25 KB/s (200 Kbps) is good enough to get good returns. Giving more than 25 is supposed to work better for you, the more the better, with not so well seeded/peered (popular) torrents. Seems to be true because i used to have 250 Kbps max uppload and used 25 (KB/s) in what you call the sweet spot, and got 2 Mbps a few times at that.
The important thing to realize (and you do, this is fr others to see then) is that the torrent programs need some upload bandwidth to work in. They need approximately 20% of your upload bandwidth. So you must convert your Kbps into KB/s (because that is what the torrent programs I have encountered use) and then only put 80% of that into the "max upload speed" field. I myself use 35 (for 35 KB/s) in BitTornado. You say "upload is set at 33 as that seems to be my sweet spot" and 33 KB/s sounds good to me to if your upload speed is 384 Kbps, especially with cable because cable speeds can vary depending on what's going on in the neighborhood.
Max Connections: In BitTornado, the number it adds in default for slow DSL/cable 4 using 25 KB/s upload in the max upload speed box, and for fast DSL/Cable it throws the number 6 in max connections and 40 KB/s max upload speed. This isn't reflective of the amount of people in your circle. I believe it is about the number of people you feed by splitting your uploads to others in the circle with. So I guess this has nothing to do with max half connections which i don't even see in BitTornado as a choice. But next paragraph explains more about half connections..
The Evil ID patch - is that the same as the LVLord patch? Windows XP SP2 limits max half connections to 10 so worms cannot proliferate. I used the LVLord patch and changed it to 1000 as suggested - however, I have heard this helps the old style P2P programs, but not much help in the torrent type P2P we're talking. Maybe it helps if you lose a source uploading to you, then you get another quicker (guessing). I beleive a half connection is, after reading how WORMs work - a full connection is somthing coming to you and you are responding letting it know you are there, while a half connection would only be one way - I know that is vague, but I am very vague about it all in my understanding of it, all I know is WORMs don't become so devistating now that XP SP2 limits half connections to 10.
No need for 1000 max connections per task as Mike99 suggested. But since you won't get there in all likelyhood not even to 500, it can't hurt I guess. In BitTornado I believe that I only have a choice of "max peers" to change, not max connections (peers and seeds would be all I connect to using the jargon I think).
Are you sure you are not firewalled? You're not in a home network (or other network) using a router are you? (a router is a firewall and it means you need to port forward ports used in it). And did you exclude bitcomet.exe (or whatever it's called) in your software firewall? You should be getting a green light in your torrent program as opposed to a yellow light.. If Bit Comet has no warning light system, try my advice is to BitTornado. In fact try it anyway, you should do better than 300 Kbps (about 37 KB/s).
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MikeJ999 (newbie) replied to listerboy: I heard that 6969 is a popular listening port. I am using 9xxx since I got that from a 'random' button push. Maybe your 50,000 is too high? But only if peers dont connect rite away, I guess...
Mike, I use a port range in the 57000 area myself and do great. I've heard metioned but don't know how true, that higher ports get you a bit better speed. You should avoid ports others might be using that are known BitTorrent ports, like 6881-6889 for example, just on the slight chance an ISP fxxks with those ports knowing torrents use those by default and a lot of people use them.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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Sorry Big and Mike; I got my numbers mixed up. I have a 10 megabit connection with Blueyonder with 384 kbps up. The best speed I have had is 300 kbps download which I guess equates to about 3000 kb/s. My line maximum should be well over 10000 kbps or 1000kb/s. I hope that clears things up a little. I have a modem and not a router. It plugs straight into my computer via ethernet connection. The LVlord patch is the same as the evil id patch. I changed my connections to 100. I used Kerio personal firewall and Bit Comet is allowed in the program for both inwards and outwards ports. I also went to the Shields Up website and it said that the port that I use for downloading is fine. Forgive my ignorance. I appreciate any help you can offer.
Thanks again.
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listerboy (Newbie) wrote: Sorry Big and Mike; I got my numbers mixed up. I have a 10 megabit connection with Blueyonder with 384 kbps up. The best speed I have had is 300 kbps download which I guess equates to about 3000 kb/s. My line maximum should be well over 10000 kbps or 1000kb/s. I hope that clears things up a little. I have a modem and not a router. It plugs straight into my computer via ethernet connection. The LVlord patch is the same as the evil id patch. I changed my connections to 100. I used Kerio personal firewall and Bit Comet is allowed in the program for both inwards and outwards ports. I also went to the Shields Up website and it said that the port that I use for downloading is fine. Forgive my ignorance. I appreciate any help you can offer.
Thanks again. Listerboy
OK.. Well yes, I once had a download that topped 3 Mbps - same as 3000 Kbps and same as 375 KB/s.
As far as I am concerned, you can't expect more than 2 Mbps or a bit above for the most popular and well "seeded" (complete copies) torrents - (2 Mbps is the same as 2000 Kbps and same as 250 KB/s. Be happy t get 1 Mbps. Crummy torrents with one or two seeds and 10 peers could be only 300 kbps or the same or even less the speed you are uploading - but it varies the same crummy numbers in another torrent might be 500 Kbps. Averaging 600 Kbps is good with lower numbered torrents.
Note this - using a capital "B" means Bytes, and using a small "b" means bits, and using the "/" (slash) doesn't matter because in actuality it can be used in either formula. So even when you just now mentioned your torrent download speed you still got it wrong. You should have said "I have had is 300 KB/s download which I guess equates to about 3000 kbps".
{history lesson included at no extra charge}:
The lingo is confusing because of Bytes and bits both starting with the letter "B". It always was in the old days Kbps (bits). Then at some point, some jerk-wad came up with using Bytes and not bits to report transfer speeds for modems. Back farther before that it was "baud" (another letter "b" now that I think about it). A 14400 baud modem was 25% as fast as a 56 Kbps dial up modem of today. (14.4 x 4 = 56). Beleive it or not that 14400 baud modem was a breakthrough from the 2400 baud days - friggin 2.4 Kbps!! Pictures were in "ansi" graphics back then (big clunky colored high ascii charaters, like ╤ ╥ ▓ ▒ . And we had BBS' not the Internet - A BBS is a Bulletin Board System - which was most hobby BBSes were one dedicated telephone line into your computer you paid extra for. If you multi-tasked your computer you might have paid for two lines or more into your extra dedicated computer - could get to be an expensive hobby. Also we networked forums, but it wasn't in real time, the computer rtunning the BBS would connect to somone lse on the network at some point or poiints during a 24 hour period - eventually all got back to a central point and passed around and replies and new posts got back to you.
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I have been having this major slow down in connection /bandwidth the last week. It started off one day where all my downloads whether its with 5 seeds or 100 seeds my connection rate dropped from 1mb to like 30-40kbs. I did not do anything different from all the other days that made this strange connection. At first I thought it could be a bad connection or maybe just need to reset my modem (do not have a router), but that wasn?t the case. I am using windows XP and have a powerful system so I thought maybe it was Azures; so I reinstalled that, and the problem didn?t change, then I thought I might have gotten a virus in my system that was killing my bandwidth, so I reinstalled windows and that wasn?t the case either. The main problem I am having is that any kind of torrent I have open barley works well and it kills my bandwidth to view WebPages. I tried doing different ports and installed an update to the sp2 but nothing changed as well. Someone mentioned to be about throttling? What is that? Could that be the case? At high points I was capable of downloading 15 items at once and still browse at cable speeds.
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flykid83, I assume you are getting a green light and not yellow. If always yellow it's a firewall problem. And you are uploading very well too..
I recommend at this point trying another torrent program, just to make sure.. At least you'll eliminate that the problem is Azureas.
If you try BitTornado (I use) it is pretty simple. Just have to (main page) select either "Slow DSL/cable" or "Fast DSL/cable", at which point it will enter in numbers into the two fields on the page, and then you adjust those numbers to fit your situation.
In any torrent program remember to put in only 80% of your max upload speed into the "Upload Rate" (max upload speed) field (Program needs the 20% left over to work in). "Max Uploads", depending on how fast, 4 is default for slow dsl/cable, and 6 is default for fast DSL/cable. I'd keep this box in BitTornado within those limits.
Finally - who knows -- I saw in the Newspaper the other day that certain companies were being to fxxk with the various P2P networks and P2P torrent networks...
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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someone wrote this on another forum
Warning to all Cablevision Broadband users...I found out tonight that they had throttled my broadband connection for sending too much data upstream! I have never hosted a torrent just let files I have downloaded seed. Bastards wouldn't tell me how much data was too much, they never even told me they were going to throttle me, I only found out by running speed tests. They shut me down to 4mbps downstream from 13mbps and killed my upstream to 140kbps from 2mbps!
Thats what happens when you give cable companies monopolies!
How can I get around this? I never uploaded a file just downloaded and opeloaded from that torrent.
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Warning to all Cablevision Broadband users...I found out tonight that they had throttled my broadband connection for sending too much data upstream! I have never hosted a torrent just let files I have downloaded seed. Bastards wouldn't tell me how much data was too much, they never even told me they were going to throttle me, I only found out by running speed tests. They shut me down to 4mbps downstream from 13mbps and killed my upstream to 140kbps from 2mbps!
Thats what happens when you give cable companies monopolies!
How can I get around this? I never uploaded a file just downloaded and opeloaded from that torrent.
I am not surprised about this one bit. I've read about this type of thing happening over a year ago. I believe it was Comcast, however not sure. It happened to super bandwidth users though and I don't think it would happen to the occasional multi-houred downloader/uploader. Perhaps a family with 3 or 4 kids all accessing the Internet at all hours, all hooked up to one account on a home network, with constant use, online gaming, getting files, P2P, Internet radio, sending a friend long winded files through MSN Messenger.
But I bet this guy had the habbit of starting a torrent every night, going to sleep, and 12 hours later might look at his computer.. He's been uploading max the whole time.
But a 13 Mbps down account?! Holy cow!. Shut him down to 4 Mbps - crap - a lot of cable users only have 3 Mbps, I feel privileged to have moved up to 4 Mbps down (400 Kbps up, 4000 Kbps down).. Sounds to me like they were giving away extra bandwidth. If I paid for the deluxe business account I'd get something like 1 Mbps upload 10 Mbps download, paying I think $180 a month. And they'd better be more tolerable as far as bandwidth, or else why pay so much.. I am wondering if that isn't an old message from years ago? Well.. 13 Mbps, where did you get such speeds years ago? A T1 line is only 1 Mbps but a dedicated line , I believe..
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Well I don't know what to do now but just suffer. I tred using tornado but that does the same thing ti slows down my badnwidth
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flykid83 writes: Well I don't know what to do now but just suffer. I tred using tornado but that does the same thing ti slows down my badnwidth
You must know what you are doing as far as putting 80% of your max upload in KB/s into the Upload rate field, seeing as you used to get better rates..
I am just wondering since you didn't mention it, and yea, these questions are basic to a seasoned torrenter, but I don't know how seasoned you are so I'll throw a few things out at you:
1) Have you tested your up and down speeds lately? http://www.dslreports.com/stest . Try a place close and another far. What is your max upload speed anyway?
> At high points I was capable of downloading 15
> items at once and still browse at cable speeds.
2) 15 torrents at one time? Most work best one at a time!. For the most part, they are tied into how well you are uploading.. For very popular torrents 25 KB/s in the Upload Rate box works well, for those not so popular better than that upload speeds get you better download speeds. 15 at a time holy sxxt do you have a software library or something?
All right I am rally curious if your up and down speeds are what they used to be for you...
Try this patch, since XP SP2 limits half connections to 10 to try and stop WORMS. Though I read this helps the more standard P2P programs out better and not torrent programs much.. Instead of default 10, enter in maybe 1000. You will get a warning from Windows XP, but go ahead - but this does mess with your registry, better save a copy before using this patch:
http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 10. February 2006 @ 18:35
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