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rh71

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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Do you believe your download speed is affected by your upload speed ? You can throttle your upload speed with the experimental client.

I have a capped upload at home so I can only give about 15KBps upload max total. My download speeds are HARDLY EVER above 20KBps with various tv eps. I'm downloading the HALO2 demo movie from work and they are flying. Is this because my upload speeds are high too ? Or is it simply the fact that there is a lot of bandwidth for these new/desirable torrents ?

Are they trying to lie to us saying that our download rate is proportional to our upload rate ?
 
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arod

Diamond Member
Sep 26, 2000
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When I get something off there it slows down alot when Im uploading, I use a program called Net Limiter that allows me to control any uploading on my computer... not just bittorrent.

At work though there is no need for Net Limiter, my upload is much faster than my download is..
 
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amnesiac

Lifer
Oct 13, 1999
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If you set your upstream TOO high it borks your downstream. Trust me on this.

With my 768/128 connection, I averaged 15K up/ 10-25K down.

With the experimental client, I set upstream to 8K max (select "dialup" not "DSL") and I've gotten downloads as high as 45-50K, without screwing up my connection speed.
 
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amnesiac

Lifer
Oct 13, 1999
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Oh, some of you may have noticed that one of the major torrent sites gets congested often. I suggest you donate to help them upgrade their equipment. Even if 1/3 of the users donated just $5 they could easily have enough to upgrade.
 
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dugweb

Diamond Member
Oct 17, 2002
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ok, can someone explain what bittorrent is exactly? I just downloaded it for the halo movie, and now after reading this thread it sounds like something i dont want
 
EvilYoda

EvilYoda

Lifer
Apr 1, 2001
21,198
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yeah, the Smallville torrent is really slow for me too...

and as for the original question, yeah, I think it's supposed to affect things, but I haven't really paid enough attention to know for sure...hard to tell when so much depends on how many people are also seeding/dling the same torrent.
 
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notfred

Lifer
Feb 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: EvilYoda
yeah, the Smallville torrent is really slow for me too...

and as for the original question, yeah, I think it's supposed to affect things, but I haven't really paid enough attention to know for sure...hard to tell when so much depends on how many people are also seeding/dling the same torrent.
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I don't mean it's slow.... it won't connect to the tracker at all.
 
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pulse8

Lifer
May 3, 2000
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Originally posted by: Tyler
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
yeah, the Smallville torrent is really slow for me too...

and as for the original question, yeah, I think it's supposed to affect things, but I haven't really paid enough attention to know for sure...hard to tell when so much depends on how many people are also seeding/dling the same torrent.
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I don't mean it's slow.... it won't connect to the tracker at all.
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Mine won't connect to the tracker either.
 
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notfred

Lifer
Feb 12, 2001
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Smallville still doesn't work, and it dosn't look like Enterprise has been released yet... sigh...
 
rh71

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Tyler
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
yeah, the Smallville torrent is really slow for me too...

and as for the original question, yeah, I think it's supposed to affect things, but I haven't really paid enough attention to know for sure...hard to tell when so much depends on how many people are also seeding/dling the same torrent.
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I don't mean it's slow.... it won't connect to the tracker at all.
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Mine won't connect to the tracker either.
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Leave the Torrent client up for it... sometimes I go to bed with an error connecting to tracker but leave it open, only to find it has started the download when I wake up in the morning. Someone will re-seed them if they're dead. If it's a new tracker, try again later.

 
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notfred

Lifer
Feb 12, 2001
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Smallville is working now, downlaoding at 70k, uplaoding at 64k....

Edit: updated speeds.
 
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Spac3d

Banned
Jul 3, 2001
6,651
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I tried BitTorrent ... but even after leaving it on for an hour, it always uploads at 60k/s and downloads at some single digit like 7k/s. If I even got to a 1:1 ratio, I would leave it on.
 
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igowerf

Diamond Member
Jun 27, 2000
7,697
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I've been able to get about 400K/sec down while only uploading around 10K/sec. The most I've uploaded at is around 70K/sec.
 
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Atlantean

Diamond Member
May 2, 2001
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Nope I don't think so, well not all the time anyways as long as there are people seeding the file then I can get decent speeds. My upload on there was at 60kbps the other day while my download was at 200 kbps. I would say that the more people downloading it the better your speeds will be cause you are downloading the files off them.
 
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notfred

Lifer
Feb 12, 2001
38,241
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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
It makes me sick that people like me who don't cap their upload feed leechers like you. :disgust:

- M4H
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I'm currently uplaoding at 104k/sec on a file that I finished downloading half an hour ago.
 
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morkinva

Diamond Member
Nov 16, 1999
3,656
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Originally posted by: JudistPriest
ok, can someone explain what bittorrent is exactly? I just downloaded it for the halo movie, and now after reading this thread it sounds like something i dont want
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