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How fast can I downlaod?


Paul Weinstock

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Hello, everybody.

Excuse me, Moogly, to cut into the conversation, but our friend Paul Weinstock wanted to know Download Speed and so I do. But your answer is about upload speed! What is the relation?

Is it the same limit speed?

And the chart is theoretical . In the practice how is it?

Excuse me again and thank you for your explanation.

Cheers.

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You download as fast as your ISP allows you. Firstly, they rent you a connection at a certain speed. This means you can both RECEIVE and SEND data at a certain THEORETICAL max rate. uTorrent and other bittorrent clients assume you can reach 70-80% of this theoretical max while still using your connection for other things. That is why the setup guide and Speed Guide (Ctrl-G) is only interested in upload... your limiting factor.

To test your download sustained speed... which may be LESS than theoretical max due to ISP interference, check the test torrents. The setup guide mentions http://slackware.com/torrents/ and http://dstribution.openoffice.org/p2p/

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If you turn off DHT, LPD, and Resolve IPs...plus reduce net.max_halfopen to only 1-4...plus make sure global and per torrent connections max is considerably less than 100.

...you could probably upload a lot faster than 20% max without appreciable lag and packet loss.

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