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[ayhem]

Is that a record d/l reached 703 kb/s on one movie file?

[Lord Alderaan]

I reach 1MB/s on a single torrent from time to time. That is pretty much my max speed. However people have reached speeds above 20MB/s on a single torrent.

Below 10MB/s your internet connection is the likely bottleneck so people with better connections will get higher speeds. Above 10MB/s your home network or your harddisk might become an issue. Which can be solved with a GB home network and a raid setup which will make your internet connection the bottleneck again.

Also it is possible to run a tracker on a LAN such as your home network or a LAN party and the speeds there can be incredible.

But the fact remains that 700kb/s is a nice speed to download something

[Firon]

Not even. I've hit 5 MB/s. People with gbit boxes have hit 40.

[jewelisheaven]

The question is whether they obtained this without suffering disk overload and / or CPU usage stalling due to hashing.

[Lord Alderaan]

Disk overload -=> Use a raid setup

CPU usage -=> Buy better CPU

[jewelisheaven]

LOL, indeed, but my point is I figure from my tests/throughput that for whatever reason 1 MiBps is equivalent to about needing 100KHz of a processor... If indeed all of that CPU usage is done for hashing perhaps there can be some sort of setting to toggle back the hashing to a more manageable level thereby decreasing CPU usage and only requiring more data throughput.