torrent help

[Archie@]

hi Guys,

I know this isn't really game related but since this is were most of the tech heads hang out I thought it might be more appropriate to post here than elsewhere..... anyways to the point.

I’ve been downloading a fair few torrents, but the problem is, it takes for ever. I have a cable connection so I would at least like a 200-300kbs download and not the pathetic 20-30kbs that I am getting.

I’ve read up a bit about opening ports etc etc but the problem is I’m using a USB modem... to be precise a Motorola surfboard hunka junk, so there is only one port.

is there anything I can do to up the speed of the downloading of por.... i mean family orientated movies or am I doomed forever in eternal frustration whilst the torrent hogs my precious counterstrike time.

ta

[(B1) MR_fanny]

i get similar speed to you also, the most i got for one torrent was 70kbs. it all depends on the number of seeds and peers there are. also from what i under stand its an upload download ratio so if your upload speed is high so is your dl speed. sif..im with optus cable so im stuck with 128kbs upload hence thats the reason why my dl's suck ass.

[AlphA]

USB modem should make very little difference dude, (B1) MR_fanny might be onto something RE upload speeds.

Im on DSLAM 12mb DSL and upload at about 300kbs that could be your prob. "upload speeds"

[Archie@]

USB modem should make very little difference dude, (B1) MR_fanny might be onto something RE upload speeds.

Im on DSLAM 12mb DSL and upload at about 300kbs that could be your prob. "upload speeds"

hehe yeah....i just found out what the problem was.... torrent shows upload/download in bits so the 15 odd bits i'm receiving is more like 125 kilobytes.

Now i just actually realised that my ISP capps my uploads at 125kbs were as my download speed isn't capped. so no matter what it seems im destined to have to set downloads for overnight jobs.

ohhh welllll.........

cheers guys

[Cubes]

Cap uploads around 10-11Kb/s.

Bittornado is a decent reliable torrent client, I find it performs better than the popular Azureus.

Any more than ~10-11Kb/s and you will have trouble sending ack packets to your sender.

In lamens, the sender sends a packet and waits to hear back from the receiver, once it hears back it sends another.

You need to reserve some upload bandwidth for ack packets.

Also.. Don't go doing these 'rwin/mtu etc optimizations' you find around the web.

Often than not they only make matters worse.

WinXP does a fairly good job on its own.

[ferni]

The stuff you have read about port forwarding is on a router/firewall, since you don't have a router you just have a modem, you won't need to forward ports, but i hope you are running a firewall on your computer since you don't have a router - just open the ports that your bit torrent client uses on your firewall. Check the preferences of your bit torrent client to find out what ports to forward.

I'm on 1500/256 ADSL, and on good sourced torrents can max out my connection at 160kB/sec...

If your on cable, both Telstra and optus cap at 128kbit/s upload which is around 12-15kB/sec... set your bit torrent clients max upload to 10kB/sec.

Next is to find torrents which have good sources... Usually new torrents released have the best speeds, the more people on them usually the better speeds. Ratio sites like filelist.org and wild-bytes.org are ratio sites(they keep track of how much you download and upload) i always get good speeds on.

Lastly always try to make sure you share the torrent once you've finished downloading till you have uploaded as much as you downloaded (1:1 ratio).

[ABuSD]

slow down egg heads!

so what program are u using to d/l? im after a good one also, i was using one which i cant remember but i was rank, now i try and get most of my stuff off BearShare, get really fast speeds out of that most of the time, but it doesnt have as many things as a torrent program would.

Cheers

All the best.

[lwells]

The line about having your upload speed set high to increase download speeds is incorrect: quite often its the opposite. I cap most of my torrents at about 4-5Kbyte/sec upload and can quite happily do hundreds of kbytes down per sec.

Each torrent only needs a couple of Kbytes upstream so it can send enough data out to let the peers/seed/tracker know what's going on.

Lucien.

[Archie@]

slow down egg heads!

so what program are u using to d/l? im after a good one also, i was using one which i cant remember but i was rank, now i try and get most of my stuff off BearShare, get really fast speeds out of that most of the time, but it doesnt have as many things as a torrent program would.

Cheers

All the best.

currently using bittorrent.... reasonably good. i find the best thing about it is that you are not limited to using one site to download from. i usually search torrents when it's a slow day at work, e-mail the torrent file home and when i get home i can just start the download in bittorrent.

[lwells]

I use Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/): its not perfect, but its open source (so no nasties) and is constantly updated.

Lucien.

[ferni]

Azureus is a good popular one, only down side is it written in java, i hate java, so slow.

I use ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/) which is ok, seems to work fine for me, but friends have had a couple of problems with it.

As for the upload thing, it depends how the client is written - But from what i understand the upload cap should be for uploading of data of the torrent itself, not the requests out to the tracker and connecting to peers etc... otherwise it would flood itself in with the data being uploaded. Also from the tracker specs i've read, which was a while ago - they do take note of how much you uploaded and are uploading, and give you more/less sources, so by uploading 10k/s rather than 5k/s, you should get better download speeds (as long as you aren't flooding/maxing out your upload bandwidth). But if your getting speeds your happy with by capping the upload at a lower rate then your doing fine

[lwells]

Azureus is a good popular one, only down side is it written in java, i hate java, so slow.

Yes, but it also means its sandboxed and crossplatform. I must say that despite it being written in Java, I haven't noticed it being unresponsive.

I use to use ABC but got frustrated with its general instability and slow pace of development.

Lucien.

[VL-TRBO-RB20]

sorry havnt read most of the posts..

but have you port forwarded n all that stuff?

how many seeds does it have,

prob already said but yeah sorry

[ABuSD]

I had alot of problems with ABC also.

[AlphA]

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

[Guest Mashrock]

i use abc.. no problems at all its great!

[BigDatto]

If you've got good bandwidth sign up for a good news server & smash Usenet. I get 500-700k in the binary newsgroups. A good server will cost $USD 10-15 per month, but its leech heaven. Bittorrent/Fast Track et al ain't what it used to be, Usenet just gets better...

[lwells]

Meh. Go truely old sk00l: IRC (dcc) baby!

Lucien.

[Topaz]

I use bittorretn 3.4.2 program and download from

Pirate Bay

Torrent Spy

Kerrazy Torrent

also, upload speed from seeder will affect download speed

[AlphA]

Meh.  Go truely old sk00l:  IRC (dcc) baby!

Lucien.

Haha, I havent used MIRC in years! Is that still alive?