1.5 has increased my download speeds by 85% +

[snowy]

I don't know what you've done guys, but on my 20 megabit connection, i am now getting 1.6 MB/s downloads at peak time (in the UK, it's 8:30pm here

whereas before i NEVER got over about 850kbps, even when cherry picking torrents with loads of seeds (on a private tracker with over 200 seeds and <10 peers).

Decided to try the same 'cherry picking' tonight seeing as there's a new version out and the speeds are insane. Thanks for a fantastic little program.

[Firon]

Yeah, the speeds were teaked in the betas to handle 10mbit+ far, far better.

[Soggy Bottom]

Yeah, the speeds were teaked in the betas to handle 10mbit+ far, far better.

I think i can vouch for that too. Im on a 24/8 mbit cable connection and i downloaded the Openoffice torrent (very well seeded) with an average speed of 2.3 Mb/sec. Very nice!

[snowy]

trying the open office one now

can't wait to see what speeds i get at 2am or something.

[jult]

Make sure you state if you mean Bits or Bytes..

[Dark Shroud]

This is the common way to indicate the difference:

KB = bytes

Kb = bits

[DreadWingKnight]

The other common way (and easier for everyone to differentiate, the one I use) is to spell it out.

Not all systems measure it the same (unfortunately)

[jult]

Actually "Kb" means Kilobytes. "KB" means KiloBit, so it's the other way around.

However, when you see "kbps" or "mbps" it's more likely to mean bit per second.

[Ultima]

Wrong.

KB/kB means kilobyte, Kb/kb means kilobit. Proof? In any case, KiB is the more correct way of writing the kilobyte that means 1024 bytes that we're all used to, though it's actually called kibibytes. Bits are smaller than bytes, hence the corresponding case difference... And hence the reason kbps means kilobits per second.

[jult]

No. KB/kB means kilobyte, Kb/kb means kilobit. Proof? In any case, KiB is the more correct way of writing kilobyte.

That's not even close to being 'proof', wikipedia never proves anything. That's a mistake as often made as referrer/referer. Originally, kB (with a small k) meant kiloBytes and KB meant KiloBit. It changes because internet providers wanted to advertise their speeds in larger numbers. They wanted to be able to say "1024 kbps" rather than "128 kB/sec" (the one uTorrent is using).

[Ultima]

... b has always been bits, and B has always been bytes. The prefix K or k makes no difference in their meanings.

[Allied]

In Cisco I learned that kB=Bytes and kb=Bits

[jult]

Bits are smaller than bytes

No, a byte is simply 8 bits.

And hence the reason kbps means kilobits per second.

Wrong again. A kilobit unit is never plural. It's either "kilo bit per second" or "a kilo bits".

[jult]

the capital letter "K" is expressed in binary bits as 01001011, the lower k is just "kilo".

[Ultima]

Kilobit is a unit, so there's nothing wrong with saying kilobits. Is there a problem with saying kilmeters? Or do we say 100 kilo meters? Also, we're talking about prefixes here, not about binary representations of letters, so don't get your discussions mixed up. At this point, you're just arguing about semantics, so I'm just going to disconnect myself from this discussion, as it's getting nowhere fast. Don't misunderstand this as a "I'm wrong and I give up."

[Firon]

K as a prefix doesn't really exist (it's made up, and incorrect. I'm speaking of prefixes, not SI base units, so don't bring up Kelvin), but k does. B is bytes, b is bits. This is, of course, according to the standard system of units, which I would assume is more correct than you.

K is an informal prefix, which isn't even used consistently. The correct ones to use are kb for kilobits, and kB for kilobytes. To be even more formal, kB is exactly 1000 bytes, and KiB (Ki being the binary prefix) is 1024 bytes.

Also, for the record, the term kilobits (and bits or anything using it) IS pluralized when appropriate. You would not say 1000 kilobit per second, you would say 1000 kilobits per second.