bip_at Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 I am new to torrent, so I don't know, if the speed i get with my torrent is normal or too slow.Connection status is green, connection setup done by the speed guide.The test torrent from the FAQ section was very fast -- it used all capacities of my connection (100 kB/sec download),so I assume I setup everything correctly and my provider is not throttling p2p (my provider is Tiscali in Germany).However, the other torrent I tried gave me only poor speed -- average of 10 kB/s. It has plenty of seeders/leechers but i don't get good speeds from them. At first I thought that this is normal, but other people on the internet seem to have much faster speed with the same torrent. So, can someone explain me what I am doing wrong and what the download speed depends on other then the client setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/index.htmlTry a torrent from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bip_at Posted November 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 like i said, this one works perfectly (100 kb/sec). but the torrent i want to download just stucks at something around 10 kb/sek. sometimes a get a connection to a seeder/peer on 100 kb/sek, but only for a couple of minutes, the it disconnects again. i have the impression then the other people do not have such problems and can get constant high speed. is it a wrong impression?PS. does the share on the overall download speed depend on my upload? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Your download speed does depend loosely on your upload speed, at least on torrents where there's not enough fast seeds to go around.Also if you're uploading TOO fast for your connection, then your download speed suffers far worse than uploading only a little (such as 6 KB/sec). However for best results your upload speed needs to be about 80% of your connection's max.Many of my torrents don't download at faster than 100 KB/sec, but they usually manage 20-50 KB/sec. These are torrents with few seeds (<5) and often less than 40 peers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 @bip_at: Indeed you've the wrong impression. BitTorrent does NOT guarantee speeds just as any other P2P protocol can't. If OpenOffice.org runs properly, then the problem likely lies with the torrent you're trying to download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bip_at Posted November 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 The proportion seeders/peers in swarm of my torrent is 1/10. Does it explain the slow download speed or should the speed be better with this proportion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 No, number of seeds/peers connected does not indicate how fast you can download either. It's not quantity of peers, it's about quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bip_at Posted November 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 but is there a system in how the fast seeds/peers are distributed? I hardly get good seeds/peers and when i get them, then only just for a few minutes. But at the same time other people with the same torent seem to have constantly good seeds/peers connected ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Since BitTorrent is loosely based around a tit-for-tat system, if you upload more to people, they're more likely to give you preference over other peers, and it could be that the faster peers are preferring people who uploaded to them before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bip_at Posted November 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 I think I have found the root of the problem -- it's my router. Althrough the speed guide stated that the torrent-port is forwarded correctly disabling the router increased both -- my downlaod and my upload. Before I disabled the router my upload speed had always been at 6 kb/s althrough i had set 12 as maximum. I use Netgear RP614 v3 -- has anyone expirienced the same with this router? Can somebody tell me, how a router can harm the bittorrent actvities when the prot is forwarded correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Dunno, the router can have some features that slow things down. What exactly I'm not sure myself. Try disabling DHT -- maybe your router can't handle the "connections" generated by it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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