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Torrent Download Speeds (pg. 3)
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
it's not the OS....it's either your isp or torrent software u are using. Can u d/l a file somewhere else at the faster speed? |
If I download a direct download link without a download manager I get the full 60k/s. It's only torrents that aren't going above 30k/s. Suppose I could try another torrent client. I'm using exactly the same client as I was with Windows 7 though, with the same settings too. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
If I download a direct download link without a download manager I get the full 60k/s. It's only torrents that aren't going above 30k/s. Suppose I could try another torrent client. I'm using exactly the same client as I was with Windows 7 though, with the same settings too. |
If u happen to be using uTorrent (or try it with whatever u are using)...right click the file---->bandwidth..make sure upload is not unlimited. I have personally seen torrents download slowly because of this even when u have your upload capped in the settings. |
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| kadomony |
| try increasing your half-open tcp connections to 80 or more |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| My last recommendation is to reboot your router. Linksys routers especially start to up when u run a torrent client for a long time. They store connections in memory and after a while it gets overloaded and slows everything down. I had to reboot a lot when I used a WRT54G. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| it must be something specific with the torrent client, perhaps its something to do with the rate of data being written to the drive as you're downloading?? the write cache or something?? |
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| boris_the_bear |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
Win 7 does need a much more powerful machine to run it compared to XP. If you're on an older machine then stick with XP for sure. Comparing the 2 on a new build...Win 7 is faster. |
does not compute |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ridexer
Because torrents show different format of download speed that your internet speed does... Multiply by 8 and you get the "internet speed" amount. |
What.The.. Idiot if I may say so myself.
Mikey: Try to use a non-standard port. Make sure that it isn't one in the low range. Also, XP handles network traffic VERY differently than Win7. A torrent opens a lot of connections, so this could be the issue. I suspect that it is. As Kadomony suggested, change the half open connections. Are you using uTorrent? |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Also, XP handles network traffic VERY differently than Win7. |
I meant to bring that up at some point, actually.
When I used XP on my old computer, with the same ISP/connection I have now, the fastest I could DL stuff was only ever about 700-800kb/s (once or twice I broke the 1MB/s speed, but only from Australian servers fairly close-by. As soon as I upgraded my , I started getting regular speeds of 1.5-2.5MB/s from all over the place. Is that because of Win7? Or just that I got a faster computer? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Is that because of Win7? Or just that I got a faster computer? |
i would've guessed neither. OS's/PCs have negligible effect on how fast your downloads can go. its all about ISPs, line quality & seeders (if we're talking about torrents). |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i would've guessed neither. OS's/PCs have negligible effect on how fast your downloads can go. its all about ISPs, line quality & seeders (if we're talking about torrents). |
I actually hardly ever use torrents. I was talking about directly downloading from a server (for example, my own webspace). The difference in speed was immediately noticeable. I upgraded PC and OS at the same time though, so I wasn't sure which one was causing the speed increase. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
dunno, but like i said it shouldnt really make a difference, unless there's some settings that were changed with the new guts & software.
im still stuck @ 150kb max speed :( internode are building a new exchange so hoping that will increase soon. you tasmania. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
dunno, but like i said it shouldnt really make a difference, unless there's some settings that were changed with the new guts & software.
im still stuck @ 150kb max speed :( internode are building a new exchange so hoping that will increase soon. you tasmania. |
Same router and cables, and I don't think my network card is any faster than my last one was either.
150kb/s is a bit gay. Internode are apparently good though. When we switched from Telstra we wanted to go with them (they have a faster upload speed cap) but they don't run from the exchange near us, so we went with iiNet instead. And the exchange is about 300m away too, so it's nice and fast for ADSL2+ :D |
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