torrent speed

[vpcsb]

Hi guys I have taken a new internet connection...

I am quite happy with its torrent downloading speed bandwidth. It is nearly 10MB/s..

But the problem is that I get that kind of speed (4-8 MB/s) only with 1000 or more seeders.. and if the no of seeders is less than 600, I get only few kB/s like 4-20 kB/s... I don't understand what is the problem..Is it the problem of my ISP ? Because some of my friends get much more speed with 300-400 seeders only with different ISP..

When I used a lower bandwidth connection(250-320KB/s) form a different ISP , I always got 250-280 kB/s with only 300 or 350 seeders...

Now I don't understand why more than 1000 or 1500 seeders needed to get good speed with such a higher bandwidth connection.. I am disappointed too much. .

Has someone got any idea in this regard??

Please reply as early as possible.

Thanks in advance..

[ciaobaby]

It's not about "how many seeds there are" (or the swarm size).

It's about how many can or will CONNECT eg: 1(6000) means there IS only ONE that counts for anything.

Whereas 10(50) means more download slots.

[vpcsb]

Thanks ciaobaby...

sometimes my downloads starts with good speed but after 50 or 60% download speed becomes very low..

sometimes with much more seeders connected I get less speed than those one with less seeders connected..

How is this possible???

[ciaobaby]

Several reasons

Faster upload slots.

Multiple connections from one IP allowed.

uTorrent has "fetched" all the rare pieces.

Upload slots became available.

Look at the peer flags on the peers tab to get more info on what each connected peer is telling your client.