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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!

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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!

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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.

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alright, im gonna try that now that im here on my university computer.

firing up µtorrent!

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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 µtorrent

im now up to 500kbps! and upload has improved to 8kbps

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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?

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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?

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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. :)

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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.html

KILOBYTE: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/k/kilobyte.html

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That parenthesis should be on the second line Firon :P

Big K is a unit for temperature

Actually 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 = 1024

K = Kelvin

But 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.

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