Hells_Weapon Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 I ran a few speed tests the fast one was without uTorrent running the other was with, does this mean that my ISP (ntl.com) practices P2P bandwidth throttling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 No, if µTorrent is running that bandwidth is being used already so the speed test can't use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hells_Weapon Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 PS i'm also going though a Belkin Wireless router, which has a integrated firewall that includes uTorrent as an accepted accessor same for the windows firewalluTorrent is set to run off a single port which has been specifically clear on the firewall as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hells_Weapon Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 uTorrent reported using 30 down and 20 up and uTorrent never seems to exceeds 100 down and 20 up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 http://www.utorrent.com/setup_guide.phpTry selecting xx/192k or xx/128k in the Speed Guide. Your connection's upload rate can't handle high upload rates, so 20 is probably the maximum anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hells_Weapon Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 If that is the case why do the speed reports consistently return 600 to 800 download speed and 150 to 250 upload? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Because there's a difference between kbps and KiB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hells_Weapon Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 sorry you've lost me there, how does a 24bit rounding error account for 800% of the bandwidth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 ???Where'd you get the idea of "rounding error" from?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KbpsTake note of the Related Units section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hells_Weapon Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 from http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.htmlone kibibit 1 Kibit = 1024 bitone kilobit 1 kbit = 1000 bitie a 24 bit rounding error1 kib = 8192 bit1 kb = 8000 bithowever that still does help me understand what that's got to do with a download speed of 100kb/s (as reported by uTorrent) reading as a speed of 800Kbps (from the speed test you recommend) or Upload speed of 20kb/s reading as 150kbs.it your right and 100:20 is my real speed doesn't that imply the speed test has an 800% margin of error to it for it to return 800:150?I'm not saying your wrong but i don't understand how you reached the conclusion, please explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 The website you're getting your speed tests done at are reporting speeds of kilobits/sec while your DOWNLOAD and UPLOAD speeds in µTorrent are in kibibytes/sec. So the differences are indeed about 8:1 or even 10:1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hells_Weapon Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 ah I see, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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