WTF, file sharing speed slow as hell

[6TNINE]

I am at a university (nebraska) and my ethernet runs really fast, t-1. off webpages, i can get d/l of upwards of 800k/sec, but always at least 100k. when i use things like morpheus, direct connect, hotline, and audiogalaxy, i only can get like 1k/sec. WTF. someone help please

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[SnowPunk98]

T1 is 1.544Mbps webpage servers usually have fast servers meaning you get better speeds, all the other stuff you mentioned probably has a really slow connection just because you are on a fast connection doesnt mean the other end is

 

[Garion]

FYI, T1 gives you a bout 150KB/s. Your school has obviously learned their lesson and put serious bandwidth caps on things like Morpheus, etc. Not much of a way around that!

- G

 

[Techwhore]

<< Your school has obviously learned their lesson and put serious bandwidth caps on things like Morpheus, etc. Not much of a way around that! >>



EXACTLY... here at the State University of New York at Albany we did the exact same thing. I'm both a student and academic computing employee. We upgraded to an OC3 line about a year or two ago just to keep up with the bandwidth. We've implemented caps on such programs as Napster and it's clones... Even with the caps though, the network is at or near 100% bandwidth consumption almost all the time. There's about 2 hours, between 3 AM and 5 AM where it drops to about 80% usage...

There's no way around this... unless you befriend the network admin in charge of that area and somehow convince him to uncap your IP... no admin would do that though sorry...

 

[toant103]

same thing here at Virginia Tech. We disable Morpheus and Kaazaa

 

[gaidin123]

Yup. You're capped. If any university isn't throttling the bandwidth of filesharing apps and has even a medium sized base of students connected to the on campus network, then the performance is probably horrible. The Kazaa/Morpheus/iMesh network will scale to use every bit of bandwidth that there is, making most every other service unbearably slow. Napster, Gnutella, and countless others can't scale as well and so weren't as much of a problem.

Peer to peer filesharing apps kind of got themselves into a Catch-22. They've enabled millions to share files of any type, but they've also forced most institutions affected by these programs to implement some pretty hard bandwidth restrictions and to monitor their networks much more than they used to.

Stick a single machine on a fat pipe with, say, a single copy of some new movie running Morpheus. Wait a little while. Watch all the bandwidth be used up.

Gaidin

 

[6TNINE]

thats what pisses me off........i obviously thought that they capped it as well. but then i called them up and they claim that it isnt anything on their end i.e.: that they didnt cap it. f*ckers. pisses me off. up till bout a month ago, i was getting bad ass speed, now nothing. dammit. even sending a file through aol im goes at like 5k

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