Structure7 Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I've been using µTorrent at home on a good broadband connection and usually see around 150-200 kB/s max download. Inspired by another post about using removable media (thumbdrive, etc.) to download "on the go," I brought my drive to school (a large university) and fired up µTorrent. Now I'm running only one file right now, but I'm getting a max download spiking to 600 kB/s and maintaining 450 kB/s!!! I had no idea such speeds were possible anywhere. I just assumed my cable connection at home was good enough... I had no idea the school's connection would blow it out of the water! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pax Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Hehe Would be fun to have a good speed-test torrent to experiment with to set things up as good as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcaholjunkie Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 pax: the openoffice torrent is a good torrent to test your speed and should go at your full connection speed if you have utorrent (and firewall, and router if applicable) configured correctly (http://www.openoffice.org/) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 For a direct link, click the one in my signature, but it won't always bring you speeds over 500+kB/s. Less than that should be okay though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pax Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Thanks for the tip.. I peaked out at around 670 kB/sec, while my 4 other torrents kept runningreasonably well (between 25 and 80 kB/sec each) That's some nice seeding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Structure7 Posted December 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I must have to do some tweaking on my home setup. I got like 5 kB/s max here! Ack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleazar Posted December 10, 2005 Report Share Posted December 10, 2005 I brought my drive to school (a large university) and fired up µTorrent.what port did you use at your university? i could never seem to find a port that allowed speeds of more than like 2kbps at my school, and it took forever to connect to peers, and almost 0kbps upload speed. just curious. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuhairmahd Posted December 10, 2005 Report Share Posted December 10, 2005 I got 950 KBPS on that test torrent. Comcast isn't bad after all . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Structure7 Posted December 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I brought my drive to school (a large university) and fired up µTorrent.what port did you use at your university? i could never seem to find a port that allowed speeds of more than like 2kbps at my school' date=' and it took forever to connect to peers, and almost 0kbps upload speed. just curious. thanks![/quote']I just let the program pick a random port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleazar Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 alright, im gonna try that now that im here on my university computer.firing up µtorrent!==im trying the OpenOffice torrent. my download speed is slowing climbing. its now reaching 80kbps. the upload hasnt gone above .4kbps tho. it seems to be working! the random port button killed it. thanks man! thanks µtorrentim now up to 500kbps! and upload has improved to 8kbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MageMinds Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I peaked at 995 KB/s Almost the 100% I'm able to handle on my connection. There wasn't enough time to raise higher I think I would be able to get that full 1.2 MB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeboyz Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 wow. I have a 1.5m/384k ADSL. I have my upload set to limit at 30 in Utorrent so my bandwidth does not get saturated. Sometimes I have gotten as high as 180kB in Utorrent for downloads, though I average between 80 and 100 mostly. I think my max is like 196kB possible download, so that is pretty good, 180kB I mean.Bit Spirit still maintains a higher speed for a longer time, but I like Utorrent better so don't mind the slightly slower pace of Utorrent by comparision. Utorrent is leaner and easier to config and you only have a single EXE to worry about. Utorrent doesn't even require an install. How cool is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reuven Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Using the OpenOffice torrent ,My max speed only reached 180 kb/sec. without any other torrents running. I am on ADSL receive rate specified at 1856kbits/sec. So it should be possible to speed up, but how? My adsl is supposed to be 1500m/384m ,why the large difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 reuven: Do you see a "NAT Error" in the µTorrent statusbar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Reuven, 180 kb/s or 180 kB/s? :| If it's the former, indeed you'd have a speed problem, if it's the latter everything is OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reuven Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 No, I only get one of these 2 notices Error. the system cannot find the path specified. Or the system cannot find the file specified. This has only happened with certain files ie. large music files, Wagner and Bach's etc. Sorry kB/sec not kb/sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxygenuk Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Reuven, 180 kb/s or 180 kB/s? :| If it's the former, indeed you'd have a speed problem, if it's the latter everything is OK.wtf? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QauNuckShin Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 oxygenuk; 8 kb/s = 1 kB/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Oxygenuk: are you trying to be funny? I don't get what you mean... :/Reuven: if it's kB/s, then everything's already maxed out. You see, 180x10 = 1800 kb/s, which is just about your maximum achievable bandwidth. You should consider yourself one of the lucky ones that doesn't have speed problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reuven Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Thank you for all the information. Now I have a real problem that I posted under "status: error The system cannot find the etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus_1250 Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 @oxygenuk: a small k is also not the same as a big one (K) either ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Big K is Kelvin. (or 2^10 if you like the binary prefixes)Small k is kilo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 That parenthesis should be on the second line Firon Big K is a unit for temperature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeboyz Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Using the OpenOffice torrent ,My max speed only reached 180 kb/sec. without any other torrents running. I am on ADSL receive rate specified at 1856kbits/sec. So it should be possible to speed up, but how? My adsl is supposed to be 1500m/384m ,why the large difference?There is kilo BITS and kilo BYTES.Basically, if you have 1.5m, you should be getting about a max theoretical of 196kB. 180 is very good. Heck, anything over 100 is pretty darn great. KILOBIT: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/k/kilobit.htmlKILOBYTE: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/k/kilobyte.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus_1250 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 That parenthesis should be on the second line Firon Big K is a unit for temperatureActually no. It is really confusing. Someone probably figured that if the small k means kilo (1000), he could clear up things by using a big K when meaning 1024. But a capital K also means Kelvin, but I don't think he though about that. Also, M (mega), G (giga) etc all use capital letters, so the small k is an exception. So:k = 1000 K = 1024K = KelvinBut very few people seem to use k/K the right way, so you susually don't have a clue with what they mean. Same for b or B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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