Loads of peers, slow download.

[deek72]

Hi. Is there ANYTHING you can do about a generally slow torrent download? I'm connected to loads of peers (20/40) and leechers 50/180) but downloading at an average 50kB/s. I'm on Virgin Media 10mb d/l with 512k u/l.

I know my settings are more or less right (xx/384) because when I try the open office test download my speed shoots up to >800kB/s.

So it must be the particular torrent I'm downloading, but can I do anything to speed it up? Would a different torrent (of the same file, if you know what I mean!) be any quicker? Or are they all the same torrent but with different links to it?

Thanks.

Derek

[Switeck]

Peers are sometimes called 'leechers'. Surely you meant "seeds" where you put "peers"?

What's the availability?

Have you reset your modem+router in the last few hours? (turning it off for 1 minute, then back on)

Are you seeing hash fails?

Do you use an IPFILTER.DAT list to block hostile ips?

[deek72]

Yes, sorry. I did mean seeds and leechers.

Availability:28.999.

Haven't reset modem (although I don't think that's a problem, ie. the open office torrent being so fast).

7 Hashfalls (41.0mb).

Don't know about ipfilter.dat. Is that something you have to do yourself? What does it do?

Thanks for your input.

Derek

PS. I have noticed though that whilst I may be connected to 20 seeds, I am usually only actually downloading from maybe 4 or 5 of them, and even theywill only be downloading at very slow speeds, say from 0.1 to 4.0kB/s. Why would that be? Are these people limiting THEIR download speed to ME?

[Ultima]

Seems like it's just a slow swarm.