Caeleas Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 I am new to this torrent thing. I have gone through the Set Up Guide and ran the test torrent. I averaged a speed of 230 kB/s. I have now tried 5 other torrents and I get and average of 15 kB/s, sometimes it peeks to 50 kB/s for about a minute then it drops back down. I just want to know if there is something I might be overlooking, or if I am just having bad luck. I have tried torrents with a good seed/peer ratio. Well at least I think I am 2700 seeds and 2800 peers. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Any insight would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 You could be having both problems. If you check out Ctrl-P -> BitTorrent what is your encryption level? You may require setting it to Forced and disallow unencrypted connections to get the same speed as the test openoffice torrent. Both OpenOffice and slackware are homed and seeded on multiple fast peers so that's the reason for the difference.How many peers connect to you and for how long? More information about your setup would be useful if the encryption doesn't solve it. In a case like this usually I'd recommend testing the in-development 1.8 line self-encapsulated to see if the test torrent runs faster, but so I'm stuck at the "other peers not configured correctly" response. Are you trying to run too many torrents simultaneously? A list / picture of your Speed Guide would help fine-tune your other settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caeleas Posted January 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 I am only tring to download 1 torrent at a time. My ISP is Charter and I have 3 meg service. My router is a WRT54G ver. 8. I am running Windows XP sp2. My procesor is a Pentium 4 3.2GHz, and I have 2.75 GB of RAM. Net.Max_halfopen is set to 8. Here are some screen shots of my settings if it will help. If there is anything else I can priovide you with just let me know.http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n248/Caeleas/speedguide1.jpghttp://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n248/Caeleas/encry.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 OK! well... theoretically if your cable is indeed 3 Mbit down then you're being shaped. If it's only 256 Kbps then you can only expect 32 KiBps sustained in uT. Can you try 1.8 like I mentioned... be sure you can download ~ 200-250 KiBps in uT for http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ ? The likely scenario is you're just getting unlucky peer connections :/ In that case you may want to lower active peers per torrent and raise the concurrent torrents to allow for at LEAST 1 Mbit down sustained among 3-4 torrents. Thanks for the info and system specs. I'm sorry it doesn't directly solve the problem at hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caeleas Posted February 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Just to up date you. I tried 1.8. I was able to peak at around 100 KiBps with an average around 60 KiBps using the Open Office torrent. I do thank you for taking the time to help me out. Many Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Hmm, well since it's not much better then it would seem Charter is one of those ISPs which mucks with your speeds. You can always pop on that openoffice during different hours/days for 1-3 minutes to check on your sustained speeds. This will help determine if it's an ALWAYS-ON problem or just profiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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