supernatural_sheep Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Is there any way to check whether my download speed is, well, normal?Friends brag of average speeds of over 200 kp/s, but I can't make mine surpass 40... is my router slowing me down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 When I worry my speed is being throttled the first thing I do is get a well known fast torrent with lots of seeds. The best way I've found to do this is to browse all torrents on a popular site and sort by the number of seeds. Last time I checked the first item listed on the next link had 4257 seeds and 3397 leaches. Download a few hundred mb of whatever is listed first. [sNIP] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernatural_sheep Posted August 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 I do that, too. >_>Hmm. I guess what I'm trying to say is... is it normal to have an upload speed three times as fast as your download speed?*goes to try ciper's suggestion anyway*EDIT: Umm... this movie's got about 5k seeders, and I'm downloading at 5 kb/s. I think that's an issue (well, it says only 5 seeders are seeding now)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Your up speed is 120k but the down is only 40? Have you tried the tools on the DSLReports site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernatural_sheep Posted August 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Well, basically, right now my upload speed is 15k but my download's 5. Ehehehehe... link me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Let's get this fact straight: more seeds does NOT mean more speed. In fact, more seeds/peers means it'll take a longer time for µTorrent to weed through the slow peers to find the fast peers, if it ever does find them. I've seen this happen enough times already.Check the Speed Guide and tell us what the speed tester rates your connection's upload and download speeds to be. While you're at it, tell us if the port checker says your port is fine, and what the Speed Guide shows your current settings to be. Lastly, try a test torrent and tell us how it runs:http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/index.htmlhttp://www.slackware.com/torrents/http://www.ubuntu.com/download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 Ultima: Sorting through slow/fast peers is better than testing with a torrent where other clients send no data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 So you're telling me those test torrents I linked to have clients that send no data? I'm staring at a Slackware torrent nearly max my connection's download bandwidth out at the moment (~1 MiB/s), and I'm only connected to a handful of seeds/peers.Sorting through seeds/peers isn't fast if µTorrent can wait several minutes before timing a connection out due to snubbing. Testing torrents that are known to be fast is the correct way to test, not arbitrarily "guessing" or "assuming" that more seeds implies more speed. People have talked about torrents with tens of thousands of seeds/peers; they turned out to be fake torrents.You might be wondering why it looks like I'm getting worked up about this (and maybe I am -- just a tad bit), but spreading/perpetuating that misconception doesn't help anyone. I'm not denying your good intentions here, just debunking the myth.That said, I'll repeat my previous suggestion to supernatural_sheep, since it's sorta getting lost:Check the Speed Guide and tell us what the speed tester rates your connection's upload and download speeds to be. While you're at it, tell us if the port checker says your port is fine, and what the Speed Guide shows your current settings to be. Lastly, try a test torrent and tell us how it runs:http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/index.htmlhttp://www.slackware.com/torrents/http://www.ubuntu.com/download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernatural_sheep Posted August 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2007 --SPEED TEST RESULTS --Download Speed: 626 Kb/sUpload Speed: 120 Kb/s--------------------------ERROR! The port's forwarded through my firewalls and router, but my modem box (Westell model 6100) apparently has a built-in firewall, one that I've no idea how to get past.--------------------------Ehh... I already have OpenOffice, and I'm not really interested in Slackware or Ubuntu, but I guess I'll open a torrent just to see...Slackware 12.0 ISO disc 1 downloads faster than any other torrent I've ever opened (I've done about ten, lol) averaging (with no other downloads/seeds slowing it) a record 86 kb/s! The download time's only about 2 hours and 40 minutes, which is incredible for me, considering its size (638 mbs). Any other 600 mbs file would probably take me all night to download. Still, I'd much prefer a mb a second to this paltry pace. What can be done, Ultima? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nos_slived Posted August 14, 2007 Report Share Posted August 14, 2007 Given your speed test results, it is amazing that you managed to get up to 86kB/s. You aren't going to get much faster than that, as 626kb/s is ~78kB/s.As for the modem, did you bother to check PortForward.com?http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Westell/Westell6100/Utorrent.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 14, 2007 Report Share Posted August 14, 2007 Are you using the xx/128k setting in Speed Guide (CTRL+G)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernatural_sheep Posted August 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2007 @nos_slived: 86 kb/s was actually the average. I maxed over 90 kb/s, believe it or not.I was there. I did everything directed, but at the end came something that wasn't even mentioned: my modem box asked if I wanted to make the service HOSTED(click OK) or DYNAMIC(click CANCEL). I tried both options (though not at the same time), and neither worked. Help?@Switeck: Nope. A friend advised me to set my upload limit ~10 kb/s, and as soon as I did, I noticed a substantial (about 30%) increase in speed. Before I'd done that, my upload speed had almost always surpassed my download speed by two or three times... I'm not sure how much of a difference this makes, but my average speed then was about 14 kb/s (I've not yet tried the xx/128k setting while downloading Slackware [or anything relatively fast, for that matter], though...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 18, 2007 Report Share Posted August 18, 2007 The xx/128k setting will help most on regular torrents.On the Slackware torrent, you're competing with VERY fast seeders...so you likely won't get much of a chance at all to upload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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