SPants Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Recently seeing just a trickle where I used to see a torrent in popular TV show downloads, I tried an Open Office download. It came through pretty much screaming, at least by my standards, between 50 and 100 kB/s. But my TV torrents are at around a tenth of that now - and that didn't used to be the case, just a few weeks ago, though of course I can't repeat the same downloads to verify. I'm not sure I am reading the 'swarm' stats right, but right now, for example, seeds/peers for "The Shield Season 6" show as follow: 10(51) 12(294) ...but with my d/l speed showing at only around 3kB/s. It looks/seems intuitively like these are popular downloads and so should be coming through much more quickly.I'm using a Sprint air-card, and haven't found any posts bearing on the question of throttling by Sprint. Likely? Is there a definitive test for this? A workaround? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Well, it could always be that you're running into a bit of bad luck, and just aren't connecting to fast peers. Using a wireless connection, is your port forwarded properly? If not, you're going to have a harder time connecting to peers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted January 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 wait, is there port-forwarding involved here? Port-forwarding test fails, yes, but I thought there was no concern over port-forwarding if I have a direct always-on connection. And the icon USED to be green, but only when the speed cranks up, apparently for other reasons, I assumed. I've got no router, just my "air-card"..."and if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 It's generally in small/niche content where being firewalled is bad because two firewalled peers will never connect. In a popular torrent for example I ran over the weekend I now have a 20:1 ratio because I am not forwarded, yet my uT says I am, but I am only connecting to 20% of the peers due to them being connectable. I do not lack upload, because when I connect to peers who are forwarded correctly, I upload at my maximum... but the sheer NUMBER of people I can connect to is limited due to not being forwarded/unable to be forwarded.I like the quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gypsyroads Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 What does your IP say your speeds should be? and what do the speed tests show?I also have a wireless card, maybe i can help you to max its potential.Ive come to realize, wireless cards tend to need tweeking,and depending on torrent, is how you config the settings in Utorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted January 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Thanks for the help, all.I dunno what's up with all the speed-test sites, or maybe it's my laptop settings (?) but not a ONE of those speed-test links takes me to anything that looks like an actual speed test, now - instead, all are trying to sell me T1 lines, computers, new service, etc, and from the mileage, they seem to think I'm on the US West coast, which sure isn't supported by any setting I know of on my laptop. Whatever-- too frustrating to deal with that right now. My memory of setting utorrent up on this machine a few weeks back was that I was getting about 300kB/s. If you know of a test-link that doesn't require multiple pages of registration to get a speed-test done, lemme know...(did I miss some sea-change in that formerly-simple service?)But note that as I said, my test d/l of the openoffice torrent was in an acceptable range of maybe 50-100kB/sec. It's the OTHERS-- seemingly without regard to the fact that they're popular and have lots of seeds/leechers-- that are nevertheless only dribbling in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 http://www.dslextreme.com/speedtest/test.phpIt requires Java to work, but other than that, I had no problem with it.http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?more=1There are other mirrors here that work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPants Posted January 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 if at this point it matters what my speed is (other than to me!), I did get some good speed tests this evening:speedtest.net says 1191 D / 300 Unetspeed.stanford.edu says 1030 D / 302 Udslreports.com says (gulp) 712 D / 159 Uany relationship to those dribbling TV downloads (at 5-10kB/s) is purely coincidental - "OO" downloaded at 50-100kB/s, which I'd settle for... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 You using the xx/256k setting in Speed Guide (CTRL+G)?(That's closest to your ~300 kilobits/sec upload bandwidth.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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