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How fast do you get stuff with bit torrent?

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Originally posted by: Cheezeit
What is your normal download speed? 5kbs seems pretty slow to me. Are there ways to speed things up?

thoughts...
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Your ISP may rery well be throttling the BT protocol. Google Sandvine or Ellacoya to see what they use to do it. That's what my ISP has recently begun. My speeds went feom 360kb to 20kb., often no more than 5kb. Bastards! I went to Usenet.
 
It depends on the numbers of seeders vs leechers. If there are 500 seeders but 5000 people downloading, speeds are going to be a lot slower than something with 100 seeders and only 10 leechers.
 
Originally posted by: Bozono
Originally posted by: Cheezeit
What is your normal download speed? 5kbs seems pretty slow to me. Are there ways to speed things up?

thoughts...
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Your ISP may rery well be throttling the BT protocol. Google Sandvine or Ellacoya to see what they use to do it. That's what my ISP has recently begun. My speeds went feom 360kb to 20kb., often no more than 5kb. Bastards! I went to Usenet.
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This is a good point. If your ISP is using Ellacoya kit (my old ISP used the e30), then that's packet-shaping kit, which identifies traffic from the headers & data, and applies pre-set rules to it. i.e. it sees BitTorrent traffic and slows it down to a pre-set value, say 30kB/sec max.

If, on a very busy torrent (try OpenOffice.org), you are getting poor speeds and all your ports are forwarded to your machine, then it's likely that your ISP is throttling you.
 
So what, BT is the best thing right now? Last popular filesharing program I used to view other users personal creations, like home movies and their non-copyrighted drawings, it was about 3 years ago and it was Kazaa. Uninstalled it a long time ago, does anyone still use it? Should I go BT? I have 13 gigs to waste this month.
 
Originally posted by: Cheezeit
Originally posted by: purbeast0
only n00bs use bt ...
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More like :roll:

I guess all the diamond members and lifers posting their speeds in this thread are n00bs then huh? Stick to eDonkey and KaZaA, I'm sure you think there's nothing better and that's what we want you to believe.
 
I guess all the diamond members and lifers posting their speeds in this thread are n00bs then huh? Stick to eDonkey and KaZaA, I'm sure you think there's nothing better and that's what we want you to believe.
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Looks like this pretty much sums it up for me.
 
Dumb questions:

How do you tell how many seeders there are? and It doesn't upload stuff when I'm not downloading/the program isn't running, right?
 
Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Dumb questions:

How do you tell how many seeders there are? and It doesn't upload stuff when I'm not downloading/the program isn't running, right?
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it says it in the window, and no the progrom has to be running for anything to happen
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Dumb questions:

How do you tell how many seeders there are? and It doesn't upload stuff when I'm not downloading/the program isn't running, right?
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it says it in the window, and no the progrom has to be running for anything to happen
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I must be retarded, I'm using BT 4.0.1 and I see no such thing in the window? I just have the slider bar for max upload speed, current upload speed, current download speed, and progress.
 
a friend of mine here at work called his ISP to ask why he was getting slow speeds when leeching using bt.

his ISP told him that bit torrent was "illegal" and used to download pirated warez.

i just said to him that it was pretty much the most retarded thing i have ever heard, but my question is:

is there a way for the ISP to know that you are using bit torrent? if so, can they limit your bandwidth for that?

what a crock - i use BT to download a lot of legal torrents in addition to other stuff.

my view is that if you pay for the service (bandwidth), you should be able to use it for bit torrent purposes. pirated crap & warez i know the ISP might have a problem with, but just using bit torrent shouldn't be grounds for a bandwidth squeeze.

i don't know... someone educate me on this.
 
Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Dumb questions:

How do you tell how many seeders there are? and It doesn't upload stuff when I'm not downloading/the program isn't running, right?
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it says it in the window, and no the progrom has to be running for anything to happen
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I must be retarded, I'm using BT 4.0.1 and I see no such thing in the window? I just have the slider bar for max upload speed, current upload speed, current download speed, and progress.
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screenshot please.
 
Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Originally posted by: Cheezeit
Originally posted by: purbeast0
only n00bs use bt ...
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😕
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More like :roll:

I guess all the diamond members and lifers posting their speeds in this thread are n00bs then huh? Stick to eDonkey and KaZaA, I'm sure you think there's nothing better and that's what we want you to believe.
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I think he is implying that uber 1337 h4x0r5 use Usenet, but since it is just a huge piracy (and pr0n) network...
 
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