Torrents sloooow.
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Torrents sloooow.
Note to mods, this is not about illegal file sharing so please don't delete.
Recently a a few people on a dev forum I use have posted torrents of wip/beta apps instead of direct links to the programme itself to conserve their bandwidth.
Is it just me or is BT too fecking slow to be any use? Or is it one of those things where the more I share I get faster speedyness and as I am not sharing anything I don't get a decent speed?
I'm on 1mb broadband with 512 upload and I the fastest download speed I have seen on the file I need is a massive 7.9 KiB/s.
I know I am well behind the times just getting started with BT but I've never had a use for it before.
Or, am I just thick and missing something?
Recently a a few people on a dev forum I use have posted torrents of wip/beta apps instead of direct links to the programme itself to conserve their bandwidth.
Is it just me or is BT too fecking slow to be any use? Or is it one of those things where the more I share I get faster speedyness and as I am not sharing anything I don't get a decent speed?
I'm on 1mb broadband with 512 upload and I the fastest download speed I have seen on the file I need is a massive 7.9 KiB/s.
I know I am well behind the times just getting started with BT but I've never had a use for it before.
Or, am I just thick and missing something?
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Originally Posted by angrynorth
Is that it?!
Even at 52k I might as well go to California, pick the file up then ride home on a unicycle, I'd still be quicker.
Even at 52k I might as well go to California, pick the file up then ride home on a unicycle, I'd still be quicker.
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Originally Posted by JackClark
You're better off using MSN Messenger.
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Originally Posted by SiDHEaD
Not if you're both behind NAT routers you aren't ! Sends thru their servers at about 10k/sec RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRubbish!!!!
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It must be the incoming port not outgoing, as I don't run a firewall!
You need to be able to make a serverless connection to the other user to get proper speed. I'm sure there's some ports you can forward - but my router only lets you do 10 forwarding rules, and I've used them all (got various servers).
You need to be able to make a serverless connection to the other user to get proper speed. I'm sure there's some ports you can forward - but my router only lets you do 10 forwarding rules, and I've used them all (got various servers).
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Originally Posted by SiDHEaD
You need to be able to make a serverless connection to the other user to get proper speed. (got various servers).
also do you use such a package that allows a serverless secure(ish) connection, i haven't looked into them much
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re the limit to download speed, I regularly see 100K download speeds, while uploading at 22K.
The reason you can see higher downloads than your upload speed is that you are downloading from multiple people at the same time, so you can get 4 x 22 downloads.(or whatever)
There are loads of sites out there explaining this - but make sure you limit your upload speed slightly (as it needs to send info out while downloading)
other tips are port forwarding and firewalls. Too much to go into here so try a search.
The reason you can see higher downloads than your upload speed is that you are downloading from multiple people at the same time, so you can get 4 x 22 downloads.(or whatever)
There are loads of sites out there explaining this - but make sure you limit your upload speed slightly (as it needs to send info out while downloading)
other tips are port forwarding and firewalls. Too much to go into here so try a search.
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Yeh it depends on how popular the file(s) is your dloading, i.e how many peers and seeds are there, doing the same thing as you at the sametime. And even if you have alot of seeds and not many peers, it doesnt necessarily mean you will max out your connection, as the people sending may be capping the upload speed in their torrent clients.
Torrents suck imo
Torrents suck imo
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useful info for people using natted routers as discussed earlier
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...y/worki01.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...y/worki01.mspx
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