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| Thread ID: 70979 | 2006-07-22 12:45:00 | Good Torrent Speed | Lizard (2409) | PC World Chat |
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| 472828 | 2006-07-22 12:45:00 | What's a good average torrent download speed? I've been doing some reading about torrents lately, and confess much of it goes over my head. I understand about the upload/download dichotomy, and that "mainstream" torrents don't attract the highest speeds. Without venturing into the realm of "invite-only" torrents, what sort of speed can you expect from the average torrent, using a 2Mbit connection? |
Lizard (2409) | ||
| 472829 | 2006-07-22 12:49:00 | How do you define average torrent? anyhow, you should be able to get many downloads at the maximum speed your connection allows. A connection sold as "2Mbit" means nothing in this Telestrumthefatone landscape. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 472830 | 2006-07-22 13:00:00 | Depends on the seeders, the phase of the moon, ISPs, Exchanges, and Pseudorandom numbers. I got the full 3.5 Mbps max speed for me once downloading Knoppix and Ubuntu...... a miracle. | gibler (49) | ||
| 472831 | 2006-07-22 13:19:00 | Depends on the seeders, the phase of the moon, ISPs, Exchanges, and Pseudorandom numbers. I got the full 3.5 Mbps max speed for me once downloading Knoppix and Ubuntu...... a miracle. Well that's what I'm wondering - last night it peaked at about 95KBps, but tonight it's no more than 60KBps, and that's occasionally. I'm not talking about average torrents, but average speeds downloading torrents. In spite of the telecom environment (and accepting 2Mbit as a theoretical maximum), is it realistic to expect 100KBps on a mainstream torrent? Cheers |
Lizard (2409) | ||
| 472832 | 2006-07-22 13:30:00 | Well that's what I'm wondering - last night it peaked at about 95KBps, but tonight it's no more than 60KBps, and that's occasionally. I'm not talking about average torrents, but average speeds downloading torrents. In spite of the telecom environment (and accepting 2Mbit as a theoretical maximum), is it realistic to expect 100KBps on a mainstream torrent? Cheers Yes it should be. The main problem is that ISPs traffic shape the hell out them to the point where your upload can running at full speed allowed, while downloads trickle in at dialup speeds...... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 472833 | 2006-07-22 13:35:00 | Yes it should be. The main problem is that ISPs traffic shape the hell out them to the point where your upload can running at full speed allowed, while downloads trickle in at dialup speeds...... I've been reading about that, and about port forwarding. I think I've got that sorted, but I think uTorrent assigns a new port each time you start it up, so the port forwarding needs to be changed each time - unless I'm doing something wrong. Should port forwarding, and using ports outside the default range (6881 to 6899 unless I'm mistaken), avoid the traffic shaping? |
Lizard (2409) | ||
| 472834 | 2006-07-22 13:57:00 | [QUOTE=Lizard I'm not talking about average torrents, but average speeds downloading torrents.[/QUOTE] heh, Take a look at the torrents your downloading, Your "average torrent" will depend entirely on which torrents you are downloading. This will point towards the average download speed. If your getting gear that is populer and recently releasd then there will be many people on the network downloading it and numerous seeders, On such a file you can expect to make full use of your connections capabilities (provided you picked an insanley high numbered port to avoid shaping) If your selections are obscure, unpopuler or old then few people on the network will be seeding or downloading it, meaning your download will take a while, To the point of being restricted by their upload speed. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 472835 | 2006-07-22 14:23:00 | I've been reading about that, and about port forwarding. I think I've got that sorted, but I think uTorrent assigns a new port each time you start it up, so the port forwarding needs to be changed each time - unless I'm doing something wrong. Should port forwarding, and using ports outside the default range (6881 to 6899 unless I'm mistaken), avoid the traffic shaping? Most ISPs have "wised up" and are now not just shaping by port - they inspect your packets to see what they are (so called Layer 7 traffic shaping). Most people avoid the default port range in the hope that some ISPs will still just be shaping by port number.. Most international connections are pretty poor with ISPs anyway. And some ISPs probably shape you on total downloads.. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 472836 | 2006-07-22 19:42:00 | My friend came to me once saying that he is puzzled as to why he is downloading at an average 7-8kbps with each of his download thru BT We are on a 2mbps plan and our upload is 128Kbps.I think Bit comet is downloading according to how much we are able to upload too.So if your upload speed is higher than your download would be higher too.The two seem to balance out.. I was overseas last year at a 1.5Mbps DL/UP connection and each of the 4 downloads were downloading at around 20kbps .I was thinking maybe because of our upload speed.Then when my father changed to 10mbps DL/UP connection each file was downloading at around 100kbps. One time I was downloading at 1000kbps.Far...That was so fast. Anyway.I keep thinking must be because of our 128k upload speed |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 472837 | 2006-07-22 21:26:00 | Try this torrent link www.slackware.com If you have utorrent configured properly you should be able to max out your bandwidth on this. Also check that you are forcing outgoing encryption and have disabled dht |
straitjacket (9698) | ||
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