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| Thread ID: 127138 | 2012-10-06 03:56:00 | Download speed problem (Torrents) | johcar (6283) | Press F1 |
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| 1305407 | 2012-10-06 03:56:00 | I am lucky to have a download speed of around 14-15MB/s (upload is about 1.1 - 1.2). However when I am using Vuze lately to download TED Talks and various other torrents, I have noticed my download speed on a torrent is only about 5Kb/s (meaning a Ubuntu ISO of about 500MB will take around 5 days (!!) to download via Vuze)... There is a yellow icon beside the torrent in Vuze, and when I hover over it, it tells me that I "may have a NAT problem" if my torrents stay yellow all the time. I have no idea what this means in practical troubleshooting terms... I also downloaded uTorrent (to check to see whether the problem was application related) but download speeds are similarly slow with that app too... I have checked that the speeds aren't being limited in the app (both up and down are set to "unlimited") and I am currently showing an up speed on a torrent I am running of between 50 and 80Kb/s, but the down is a measly 4-5Kb/s This is a recent development, since I had been getting fairly decent speeds until a couple of weeks ago (I am an irregular Vuze user). There have been no changes in my home LAN recently (apart from Hotspot Shield being installed for about a week - now uninstalled). I installed Vuze on another PC on the same LAN and for the same torrent, I am getting a download speed of around 700 - 900Kb/s Any ideas? |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1305408 | 2012-10-06 04:14:00 | Ignore this - just noticed that my Global download limit was set to 4Kb/s. Doh! This obviously overrides the per torrent speed limit. Double Doh! Now sorted... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1305409 | 2012-10-06 06:10:00 | Plus it's school holidays, and poor weather, so all the kids will be hitting the torrents... service is likely to degrade for the next week if history is anything to go by. | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1305410 | 2012-10-06 06:38:00 | Surely more people hitting the torrents is a good thing for people who torrent but a bad thing for internet users in the area? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1305411 | 2012-10-06 07:39:00 | yeah but 12 year olds who want a cracked version of minecraft don't seed. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305412 | 2012-10-06 07:50:00 | Slanky ... you wouldn't be suggesting that torrents is used for any purpose other than the legitimate downloading of open source freeware programs ... would you ??? ... :D | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1305413 | 2012-10-06 08:54:00 | why I would never even think of such a thing, I torrent so that i feel more connected to the world and have a more communal experience with my downloads. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305414 | 2012-10-06 09:45:00 | An alternative for downloading ted talks is iTunes, at decent and consistent speeds | plod (107) | ||
| 1305415 | 2012-10-06 20:00:00 | :dogeye: An alternative for downloading ted talks is iTunes, at decent and consistent speeds Trust :D Don't think they do Ubuntu though :dogeye: |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305416 | 2012-10-06 20:28:00 | An alternative for downloading ted talks is iTunes, at decent and consistent speeds Thanks, but I have uninstalled that POS application that doesn't know how to upgrade itself properly: AppleSyncNotifier (www.howtogeek.com) errors every time it updated. I got sick of doing Apple's job for them and dumped it. |
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