Jyosua Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 I've tested my download speeds for direct downloads, and I can easily get up to 5-6 Megabytes per second on direct downloads, yet when I torrent, I can only seem to get up to about 800 kb/s, yet my Upload speed can get up to 2.1 Megabytes per second. In essence I end up uploaded Many, many times more than I download before the torrent even finishes downloading. Anyone have any clue as to why this might be happening? If you need screens of my settings, just ask. Oh and it's not an NAT problem by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 When the average people are on lines that with *MAYBE* 1 megabit/sec upload but 8+ megabit/sec download...this is to be expected. But your settings and choice/number of torrents may contribute to the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyosua Posted September 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 I only torrent one thing at a time, and here are my settings:Edit: yeah I realize my upload speed is ungodly compared to others, but I'm hoping it's just a setting problem still. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 Doesn't seem to me like there's anything too particularly wrong about your settings. Perhaps you can try Switeck's list of alternate settings, but I tend to doubt it'll make that much of a difference on higher-end connections.Chances are, it's just that very few people have the upload capacity to max out your connection's massive download rate. Be glad to know that your connection is indeed rather godly (at least by US standards). At the very least, if you upload more, BitTorrent's design would mean that you will likely end up as a preferred peer for most other peers, meaning other peers will prioritize your requests for data over other peers' (theoretically, anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 Your network software and hardware may not be able to handle even 100 connections at once...if you're using wireless, USB, Belkin/Linksys/D-Link routers.Do you see any download speed increase lowering upload speed from 2240 to 2000 KiloBYTES/second? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyosua Posted September 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 A slight increase, but not much. I've tried lowering the upload to 1 Megabyte per second to see what happens, and my download speed for torrents still caps out at around 800 kilobytes to a meg.Also, my router/fios modem isn't a Belkin, Linksys, or D-Link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted September 6, 2009 Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 How's your network setup? Make/model modem/router? Have you tried any Ubuntu or other heavily seeded torrents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 I've heard the router Verizon supplies with their FIOS service is horrible...so 1st link in my signature, slow speed section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Verizon provides customers with Actiontec routers, which aren't that horrible. My cousin has Verizon FIOS, uses the supplied router, and it works perfectly fine for him with regards to speed. I'm still chalking this up as luck-of-the-draw. It's not always so easy to max out even 10mbit/s with BitTorrent, to say nothing of 50mbit/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyosua Posted September 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Looks like you guys are right, it's just the lack of seeds with good upload capabilities. Glasnost reports my IP doesn't throttle bittorrent, and this proves it:http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3889/holyshittorrentspeed.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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