solusalt Posted July 5, 2006 Report Posted July 5, 2006 I am at a good college with good internet connection. However, they do block ports to the extent that i do not get green lights and instead yellow. still, i can download at about 50-70k a second bittorrent which is ok. At times I see my download speed go 300-400k a second, this enjoyable speed lasts for a few minutes but then soon returns to the slower speed. on the speed graph, the download speed is constantly spiking up and then dropping back to around 50, which makes me think my download is quite capable of speed, for a short time getting thru, but quickly getting realized that a speed faster then 50-70k is occurring and dropping to the capped speed.is that what this is, a cap?what can i do about it.
Switeck Posted July 6, 2006 Report Posted July 6, 2006 It's probably a cap, and be happy you can even get 10+ KB/sec on bittorrent from outside sources! Most people are firewalled so hard BitTorrent won't connect at all. Do remember you're using a massively shared resource (the outgoing internet connection) -- so seeking faster download speeds may just invite trouble that causes you to later get no download speeds. Disable DHT and UPnP, as they need to be unfirewalled at your ISP level anyway...and since you almost certainly cannot be, they just waste bandwidth. You definitely want PEX turned on though, to make up for the "loss" of DHT and being unfirewalled.Whatever upload speed you regularly are seeing, cap upload speed in Torrent to at least slightly lower than that. This should increase download speeds some and not hurt upload speeds much. After all, the top speeds you're seeing may just be temporary unsustainable bursts.
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