Anyone else think bittorent sucks?

[Dudd]

What's the point? I'm uploading at 40kbs/sec, and getting a whopping 7kb/sec downloading. Does this happen to everyone, or do I just suck at the internet?

 

[nodoubts2k]

I hardly use it, basically the same thing happens sometimes.

 

[dighn]

i only use it to download things that have a lot of sources

 

[iwearnosox]

It sucks big time, I hate it.

 

[konichiwa]

So limit your upload speed ... most consumer broadband connections' download speed decreases as upload speed increases.

Limiting your upload == faster download

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

works for me, works fantastic for me.


if everybody downloaded faster than they uploaded, where would the bandwidth come from? Chill out, at least your download is moving.

 

[spanky]

i would like to vote for u suck at the internet.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: konichiwa
So limit your upload speed ... most consumer broadband connections' download speed decreases as upload speed increases.

Limiting your upload == faster download

That doesn't work, torrent stays slow.

It sucks.

 

[konichiwa]

Works fine for me; limit my upload to 10k or so and get nice speeds. My condolences

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: spanky
i would like to vote for u suck at the internet.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: konichiwa
So limit your upload speed ... most consumer broadband connections' download speed decreases as upload speed increases.

Limiting your upload == faster download

That doesn't work, torrent stays slow.

It sucks.

maybe the thing you are downloading doesn't have many sources, or your router/whatever is blocking the port necessary for it to run. before i opened those ports i was downloading at 20kb/sec, after 150kb/sec (max of my connection). this is all with the upload limit in bt set to 20kb/sec

 

[nodoubts2k]

according to the BT website, your DL speed is based on your Upload speed.

 

[Hubris]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: spanky
i would like to vote for u suck at the internet.

It saves me from having to pay for newsgroup service, so I'm all thumbs up about it. Popular stuff tends to move pretty quickly.

 

[Howard]

I get like 250 KB/s while uploading at 5KB/s if there are more than about 20 seeds.

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: spanky
i would like to vote for u suck at the internet.

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: Howard
I get like 250 KB/s while uploading at 5KB/s if there are more than about 20 seeds.

Exactly, depend entirely on how many seeds there are. If you're trying to get some obscure file that no one is dowloading/seeding, then you are only going to be able to download as fast as that one person can upload.

 

[kazamobah]

It's alright. I don't use it that much but the few times I did use it the download jumped up to 300KB/s after awhile.

 

[BaboonGuy]

BitTorrent rocks. There are some tricks to it though. I forgot exactly which ports you should make sure you have open, but if you have them all open it's supposed to be faster. Also, use the Experimental client, it's awesome.

 

[AvesPKS]

Ever since it got capped at by my school, yes.

 

[bacon333]

bit torrent rocks. although it doesn't guarantee you the file like edonkey or emule, downloads finish quicker than any other p2p client. I never filled a 120 gig in 2 weeks until the arrival of bit torrent.

 

[notfred]

You just suck

 

[Conky]

I like using Burst! for bittorrent downloads. I cap my uploads at 10 k/s and I get pretty nice download speeds.

 

[BigPoppa]

I use bittorrent damn near daily. Movies, games, music (full cd's, good (192kbps usually) rips). Between it and ircspy/packetnews, you can find anything but the most remote things.

 

[silverpig]

It rocks. Gotta make sure you get the files while they're hot for the best speeds though. If you wait, or get something obscure, then it gets slow.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
BitTorrent rocks. There are some tricks to it though. I forgot exactly which ports you should make sure you have open, but if you have them all open it's supposed to be faster. Also, use the Experimental client, it's awesome.

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