Speed for all torrents caps at around 30kbps?

[davejhj]

Speed for all torrents caps at around 30kbps? No matter how many seeders I have i've never seen this speed go further than about 32kbps? I ran the speed tests, please see below:

Speed Test Result

dslreports.com speed test 2007-01-04 07:48:51 EST:

751 / 231 (Kbps)

(91.7 / 28.2 KB/sec)

Compared to the average of 80 tests from bigpond.net.au:

* download is 30% better, upload is 39% better

http://www.dslreports.com/im/21010322/81265.png

Am I doing something wrong or should I be doing something?

Cheers...

[µtorrent-Guest]

press CRTL+G, choose xx/256k and see what speeds you can get then. Try then something from legaltorrents.com

If that maxes out your Downloadline, nothing else you can do, then the torrents you are choosing don't offer faster swarm speeds.

[davejhj]

Im very new at this so apologies for the noob questions. So each torrent has a separate swarm speed, how do I check the torrent to see the swarm speed it's been set at?

[µtorrent-Guest]

yes, every torrent is a seperate swarm for itself.

and no, you can't "see" something like "what is this swarm speed set at?".

What you can see and what could give you an indication what speeds a swarm is capable of is the "Peer Download Rate" column. If you see a few other peers that show you their speeds in a 70kB/s range, than you can make some assumptions what the overall speed in the swarm might be. (Note that this values are not 100% accurate, because IIRC does µT only calculate this value from speed and ammount of the "have-messages" he get from other peers.)

as a rule of thumb: if you have choosen the correct value in CRTL+G, if your network equipment has no problems to actually flawlessly handle these values, if your ISP is not throttleing your traffic and if the overall swarm speed is high enough to max out your downloadspeed then you will see this happen!