Hrundi Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 I've noticed that most of the time, my download speeds are abysmally slow, ranging from 0.smallnumber kb/s to a few kb/s at the top range from most peers. I have the green light and have tried various things, none of which have helped. The strange thing is that I am capable of reaching very high speeds as well, but only with certain peers. In those cases, I am capable of getting easily 100kb/s+ from that individual peer, sometimes with total speeds over 1mb/s. What could cause this? And is there any way to get more speed out of the low-range peers?An example would be one torrent, where I'm connected to 18(24) seeds and 4(14) peers.Downloads from individual peers are as follows: 180kb/s, 30kb/s, 30kb/s, 10kb/s, 7kb/s and then the rest are from 0.1 to approximately 2kb/s. Now getting these speeds is fine, except that with a lot of torrents, I don't get those few miracle peers ( including the 30kb/s ones), which leads to a very slow download. Is this normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Yes, it's normal -- that's P2P for ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 By my estimates, people's average upload speed TOTAL for BitTorrent clients is probably about 30 KB/sec. Even assuming they're only running 1 torrent at a time and allowing the standard default of 4 upload slots...that's less than 8 KB/sec on average to each peer they're uploading to at any given moment.Really, even getting 5 KB/sec from a single peer is probably beating the averages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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