postalUT Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 -I have tried Ultima's guide and most of the other guides I could get my hands on-Status is green-Port Checker says port 37916 is good and forwarding properly-Speed guide has following settings:Connection Type xx/128kbpsUpload limit 9kB/sConnections per torrent 55Max active torrent 1Upload slots 3Connections (global) 80Max active downloads 1-Windows XP SP2 with all critical updates-No software firewall, just hardware firewall in router-Netgear WGT624v1-College LAN -I would assume t(something) but totally unsure-Compaq Presario Notebook AMD x64 3400+, 1 gig ram, onboard wireless and ethernet adaptersI realize that a college connection is not the ideal situation for torrent downloading, however, I'm getting much slower speeds that both my roomates (using similar Netgear routers) and people connecting from other parts of campus (e.g. 24kB/s with 9 out of 47 seeds being utilized) Am I not connecting to enough people? Too many?My speed test results ranged from around 180 after several tests to 325 after several more tests with very few results inbetween Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Are you even sustaining the 9 KB/sec upload speed ok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postalUT Posted January 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 I'd say about 75% of the time. But it will dip down into the sub 4kbps range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Can you tell me more about your roommate's useage of BitTorrent clients and their overall bandwidth use?Is It possible they are using most/all of the internet bandwidth dedicated to your node of the network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postalUT Posted January 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 I know specifically that one roomate is using a similar Netgear router and limits his upload speeds to the xx/64kbps setting. I tried this setting with zero improvement to download speeds. As for bandwidth choking, I doubt that this is the issue since I seem to be the only one with any major downloading going on round the clock. But I can't say for sure about other computers in the same building (I'm not sure how the building network is set up). Occasionally the others will have a torrent up but nothing more than a couple of hours at a time besides seeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 You may be limited to a very low amount of BitTorrent traffic, both per second and total per day.Even if you're only averaging 10-20 KB/sec download, that's probably all you can expect to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postalUT Posted January 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 That's what I figured. THe university keeps a pretty close watch on traffic and they may cap it. Theres also a strong collision problem here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 You definitely don't want to be downloading the same torrent as someone on the same LAN as you...you'll get mistaken as same internet ip and often ignored or even banned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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