Great Speeds To Not So Great Speeds

[Cpt.America81]

Eveything works great on the openoffice torrent as a test @ about 300-330 kbps than on other torrents im getting anywhere from 120-200 kbps is this about the swarm if so what can i do? A few days ago i was dling every torrent i wanted at around 300kbps then i had to reformat my hdd due an unknown error could it be newer network drivers i installed. Hope this is enough info thanks.

[Switeck]

Did you run Speed Guide (CTRL+G)?

Try Ultima's Troubleshooting Guide?:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992

[Cpt.America81]

I used both i get great speeds on most torrents around 300kbps is this about right for a 3mb line? some torrents I run only get 80-90kbps im sure its lack of seeds or people limiting upload.

[Switeck]

If you're getting more download speed than upload speed, you're probably doing ok. After all, if you're downloading faster than uploading...someone else isn't. (Admittedly, they may be a seed...but many if not most seeds don't stick around as long as they took to download the file.)

A 3 megabits/sec download line probably maxes out around 300-350 KiloBYTES/sec for a single-connection website HTTP download. BitTorrents tend to run a little slower because there is bandwidth used up by having lots of connections at once plus BitTorrent communication traffic that is not directly a part of the file itself.

Your upload side probably is 512 kilobits/sec or less, so don't be surprised if you never upload faster than 50 KiloBYTES/sec. You'll need to make sure of that amount, as that's what Speed Guide (CTRL+G) asks for.