Dark_Messiah Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 ISP: novis.pt (24Mb D / 640 Kb U)Max half_open: 80Router: D-link DI-624 (uTorrent has shows green light on, port fowarded)distance to isp hub: 500~700mutorrent settings: xx/256Kmy system, and it includes utorrent, obviously (or else I would'nt be here) never goes high when it comes to speed...My average on utorrent is a depressing 100KB... it is depressing cuz I'm on the fastest ISP in my country, near the ISP hub, but I don't get high-speed transfers!... as far as I now, my isp doesn't block connections, or any o'that stuff... but where are the 3000 KB I should be enjoying? I know it rarelly reaches the level the isp announces, but heck... speedtesting from here to NY (which I believe, in terms of connection, is almost a neighbour to me... cuz my isp connects to a fiber-optic backbone in france, wich has connections through the atlantic, all the way to the states, supposedly allowing me to connect to the NY test server almost entirely through fiber-optics...) results in values such as 312 KB D / 50 KB U... and that's it! that's also the higher value I ever scored on a torrent...Only the slackware torrent get's me going faster... around 500 KB max D speed...I don't think it is a tracker issue, since in the past few months I've been downloading from lots of diferent ones...it could also be a torrent problem, but I've been downloading lots of stuff latelly, so it would be expected for me to get fast D on at least one... but nope... slackware is the fastest torrent I've ever downloaded...What do u guys think I could do to improve this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Dunno what to say... if even the speed test shows junk speeds, I wouldn't expect that your ISP is actually providing you with the advertised speeds... While testing, did you make sure you weren't using any other internet-related application besides your browser? (That means µTorrent needs to have been exited) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Messiah Posted February 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Yup... I did...I also think there's something wrong with the isp... I'll check that this afternoon.But do any of u know if the router I'm using tends to create speed issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 It's possible, I suppose, but I tend to doubt that. If you really want to test, try connecting your computer directly to your modem and then test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Messiah Posted February 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 I did... no change...The ISP told me about my connection being in fine conditions, and that the max it could reach was 1.8MBs, maybe 2... I checked by doing simultaneous ftp downloads and it's true... now the issue is the slow speed IN uTorrent... I don't understand why on earth am I unable to connect to more peers at once, to achieve higher speeds! I mean... sometimes there's like... 1000 peers and I'm only connected to 10! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurahashi Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 My first thought - why only xxx/256? Your connection should work better at xxx/512 or even xxx/640.Did you ever monitored your network traffic by third party software? Lvlord patch applied? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Messiah Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 never monitored... but utorrent speed tests indicate an upload max of 500 Kbpsmax halfopen is patched to 80, and I set the halfopen value in utorrent to 35xx/512 would be too much, don't u think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Um, what happened to the speed tests showing "50 KB U"? If the speed test shows 500kbps, what does it show for upload? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Messiah Posted February 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 ...right now it shows 528 kbps upload... wich equals aprox 60 KBps, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 lol er... sorry? I think I might've misread your post earlier (and totally missed the "an upload max of" part ). You should select xx/512k in the Speed Guide.Another semi-random question: which Slackware torrent did you try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Messiah Posted February 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 the one in the utorrent guide, or something... the torrent was downloaded somewhere from utorrent's sitebut, wouldn't 512 totally eat up my bandwith? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 Even the xx/512k setting only uploads at 47 KB/sec max...while the measured max upload speeds are actually 50 KB/sec, leaving some margin of safety.A true xx/512k upload should be capable of close to 60 KB/sec upload speed for files to FTP and HTTP sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 FWIW, the Slackware torrent linked in the setup guide is a tad bit old, so it might not be as well seeded as the newer ones -- can you try testing the Slackware 11.0 torrents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Messiah Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Still on 500 KBps...I haven't tried the xx/512 settings yet, though... I'm still waiting for someone to tell me if it would block my connection or not... cuz I think it would...maybe setting everything manually to mach "xx/450" settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 No it won't kill your connection... Switeck already addressed that question ;o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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