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Downloading still slow For large files!?!?


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Tobster, please refrain opening a new thread. You already opened up a thread before about the same problem. With your problematic torrent, tell us the seeds and peers it has available. Most likely, it's them that's causing the problem. Poorly seeded torrents and low amounts of users downloading/uploading will cause the swarm speed go really slow.

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Have you patched your tcpip config with lvllord's patch? If so, how much? What is your download/upload speed? Have you tried to configure with µTorrent's speed guide? If your upload is 384kbps, then choose xxx/384 option in the speed guide.

My guess is that, you have too little connections per torrent, but i may be wrong.

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The explanation on why to use the patch is HERE and the link to get the patch directly is HERE

And after you patched it (please put it between 50-100) set the net.max_halfopen to 75% your set value in the patch. eg: patched to 100, set it to 75. Simply put, the patch will enable you to connect to peers faster.

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With your speeds, it is wise to put it to only patch it to 50 and set max_halfopen to 35.

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Ok I will do as you say and then will let you know how I go ok. Thanks for your help so far appreciate it.

Done the patch set it 50 no real change though unfortunatley? Still very poor download speed.

Anything else that can be done?

Don't double post.

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When trying to download Ubuntu 6.06 Beta 2 it is downloadeing very fast peaking at 60 kb ps! So what can I do now? And can you explain what you mean about the swarm if you dont mind? I am now also having trouble with download speed when just trying to download for example a patch for a program directly from a website im getting cruddy speeds of 15 kb ps and it is very annoying.

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lol o i love utorrent its free so i ant complaining im just saying i would like faster speeds but i can live witht he ones i have, i think it has some thing to do with my isp because i have cox and i read the bad isps and cox is one but idont know if there is any thing i can do to fix it.

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@tobster: If it downloads fast on Ubuntu, then there's nothing wrong. If it's slowing your connection down, you can look all over the forums, it's already answered.

@oddy: Uninstall NIS like I said and see how it goes.

To both of you... if you can't be patient with downloading, then you're not understanding how BitTorrent works. BitTorrent was never designed to give you maximum speeds. It was designed to keep bandwidth usage low for initial seeders. Plain and simple. If a single torrent is slow (where you can download fast on other torrents), then the issue lies with that specific torrent. I'm not sure why you both keep complaining about it.

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I dont know how to fix that either I wish i did. utorrents actually slowing down my download speed out of utorrent my download speeds gone from between 45-60 kb ps to 13 its pissing me off!!

I have this happen sometimes too.. but that can be normal... sometimes on a torrent you may have 1 or 2 seeds.. and 50 or so peers... now say all the peers only have 50% of the file.. that means at first you will download really fast up until you reach the same 50% level of all peers.. the peers can't send you data they have not downloaded themself.....you will be limited to the upload speed of the 2 seeds..

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Dunno, Kaspersky Internet Security works fine on my end, but it's still a beta. For now, I guess you can stick to dedicated products instead of a suite/package, like Outpost or Look 'n' Stop for your firewall, and AVG, ClamWin, or Kaspersky for your antivirus.

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