Normal torrent DL speeds?

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travis712

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Well after fighting a few bit torrent downloaders, I tryed Azureus. & I like it, it actually works. Im DLing one file, and am getting a speed of 30-35 kb/s. Is this normal you think?

EDIT: as I was typing this, I go to look at Azureus, and it was stopped. 0 kb/s on DL and UL, then went to 7 kb/s, then back to 0.

Whats up with this? Do I need to be sharing a lot of stuff?
 
I think it depends largely on how many seeders there are. 30-35 sounds pretty good for an average-popularity file. Sometimes the fast uploaders will logoff, so it stops or goes really slow. On really popular files with lots of seeders I've gotten 50-300KB/s. Now that's what I like!
 
give the torrent time, and yes it matters how many seeders there are, and another bit client u might like is BitTornado the STABLE not the Experimental.

heres some popular sites:
 
yeah I think I may have things set up correct. I'm getting 5kb/s for most of my stuff though. :eek:


Edit, two minutes later=70 kb/s. lol, sweet.
 
uTorrent for the win!

I've hit 400+ download speeds if you get enough seeders.

Also, don't forget about www.avastyematey - it searches all of the other torrent sites and links to them. Best torrent search engine.

 
yeah, 400 is uncommon for me on some files.


I just downloaded ubuntu linux at a pretty constant rate of 200kbps.
 
drdeutsch said:
Also, don't forget about www.avastyematey
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http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=760666

(18) You will not discuss, suggest, engage, or encourage any ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. Links provided to locations that deal with any such activity are also expressly forbidden.

meaning of course your linkage needs to be as pure as the driven snow :p
you however slide this time, in fact the first (and only) admin warning I ever recieved was for doing the same thing, linked a niffty networking tool but from the wrong side of the tracks
 
Ah I apoligize for this thread. Please see that I was just asking a few questions, not asking for links. I do appreciate the links, though. :)
 
the "topic" is allowed, provided no one feels the need to unburden their soul with specifics :p
 
I'm on a 9MB down/1MB up connection, and using utorrent, I have typically ~80 - 110 kb/s w/ public trackers (sustained transer rates); on private trackers, I typically sustain > 300 kb/s...
 
on private tracker i usually get upto 700, public is just random from 5-200 except for ubuntu and 3dmark06 was super fast
 
ValeX said:
Also, if you dont upload back, it will bottleneck your ability to download, its a built-in feature to avoid free-loaders.....try putting upload to full
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Actually, uncapping your upload can actually make your download speed go *down*. You'll be uploading with acknowledgment packets that you won't download properly. From what I hear, your upload should be capped around 60-70% of your max upload.. I think it's 60-70%...
 
I used to use Azureus, then I found uTorrent. Azureus was only using 3MB of RAM but the Java client it needs to run was sometimes in the 100MB range. uTorrent is consitently in the 10MB range, it is easier to setup, and gives me more control over torrents. On top of this it is constantly being updated.

I hate you guys, most of my torrents, hell 3DMark06 from MajorGeeks was topping out at 30 KB/s. If I have to download something over 200MB my connection eventually craps out, thank goodness for torrents.
 
Major_A said:
I hate you guys, most of my torrents, hell 3DMark06 from MajorGeeks was topping out at 30 KB/s. If I have to download something over 200MB my connection eventually craps out, thank goodness for torrents.
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Majorgeeks is regularly slow! I always have slow d/l rates from them!

Now i can hit 550+ usually getting linux distros, but regularly only get 70-350k on most trackers.
 
It all depends on how many seeds and leechers are sharing the bandwidth, and that ties into when you actually jump into the torrent.

You can hop on a torrent with one seed but 500 leechers and probably get awesome speeds until everyone gets the full file and most of those leechers disconnect.

You may download at 600KB/s or even higher, but think of how many people it takes at an upload rate of 30KB/s to get that data to you...this is why uploading is extremely important. Turn up your upload and get a client that manages it.
 
feigned said:
It all depends on how many seeds and leechers are sharing the bandwidth, and that ties into when you actually jump into the torrent.

You can hop on a torrent with one seed but 500 leechers and probably get awesome speeds until everyone gets the full file and most of those leechers disconnect.

You may download at 600KB/s or even higher, but think of how many people it takes at an upload rate of 30KB/s to get that data to you...this is why uploading is extremely important. Turn up your upload and get a client that manages it.
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QFT, you should be able to disconnect from any people not uploading period.
 
The biggest difference I found was Port Forwarding (default 6881 for torrent programs). Once I forwarded the port in my router I got 5-10 times faster torrent downloads. If you haven't already done this I suggest you try it out.

Also, uTorrent is a great program.
 
we post pics of our fastest download and blur out any questionable stuff.
+showing what torrent program u use, just an idea.
 
i have hit 1030 downloading fedora over my cox cable internet connection, i was amazed. i think i have a screen shot somewhere
 
cleanup on isle 4

:rolleyes:

self incrimination makes for good Police reality TV shows
not forum posts by "supposedly" bright forum members
please bear that in mind
 
I'll second (or third) uTorrent, very small and does not take over system *cough* azureus.

I'm on Comcast cable with 6.6mbit down (though I have seen 9mbit down frequently) and 256k up. I usually am downloading at 500-700k, and most of the time I can still cruise the web just fine while downloading. The trick is to go into the scheduler, set the down speed to 999, the up speed to 10, and then pick each box to be 'Limited by Scheduler'. If I change the up speed to anything above that it starts interfering with the packets downloading. Play around with it, YMMV. In the uTorrent client interface the up speed usually bounces around from 9-11kB/s up.

If I see a drop in performance I change the port (and port forwarding), this is usually about every week or so.
 
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