Hylex Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 I am new to downloading/uploading torrents and was wondering what would be considered a good transfer rate. I have seen mine up to around 180 KB/s, but also speeds of under 1 KB/s. I am generally happy if my rate is in the 20s KB/s abd was wondering what sort of rates you get and what's the lowest speed you are satisfied with?
stihia Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 We can tell you that only after YOU tell us your TESTED DL/UL speeds, whether you followed the speed guide or not, whether you have a green light or not, whether you're using protocol encryption or not, router/modem and firewall used and many, many others...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 To me, anything over 20KB/s is acceptable, though I'm coming to expect >100KB/s with well-seeded torrents in the later uTorrents. Since I've started using uTorrent, it has generally gotten faster, and went from subpar to well above average. For me anyway.
Nefarious Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 50kB/s is fine by me normally get 30-40 thou it's not bad
Hylex Posted June 14, 2006 Author Report Posted June 14, 2006 We can tell you that only after YOU tell us your TESTED DL/UL speeds, whether you followed the speed guide or not, whether you have a green light or not, whether you're using protocol encryption or not, router/modem and firewall used and many, many others... I don't see how any of that justifies what YOU deem as a satisfactory transfer speed. I was merely asking what speed others were experiencing to see if my speeds are considerably lower. Where is this speed guide you mentioned? And yes, I have a "green light" as well as opened a listening port to both my router and firewall.
Nefarious Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 well, the thing is everyone has different connection speeds, so someone with a 256kbps line would say 20kB/s is fine, while another on a 10mbps would say anything less than 100kB/s is not good at all, so it's relativealso the speed u are having is also very very relative, u could be downloading a torrent where there is only one seeder but that one could be giving 200kB/s while another torrent with 20 seeders could be giving you only 100kB/s, so every torrent behaves differently and u may experience different speeds as every client would experience different speeds as wellso to answer your question, yes it certainly justifies what a good speed is.
Firon Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 Depends on the torrent, connection, speeds of everyone else, etc. 10KB/s is enough for me to be satisfied. I'm a patient man. I do regularly max out though.
Hylex Posted June 14, 2006 Author Report Posted June 14, 2006 Okay, fair enough. ... I have a Time Warner Road Runner Premium Cable (10mb/s) Internet conection and am using a Belkin 4-port router (hub.)At first I was receiving mostly under 25 KB/s speeds and wanted to know if I could tweak any settings, so I checked out 1c3d0g's 'mini' guide and did everything in there except the BIOS update and am now seeing a huge increase... mostly around the 100 KB/s mark, but I have hit 200 KB/s. I even downloaded a seeder-heavy file just to test my new transfer rates and exceeded 400 KB/s. I think I am now satisfied.
WebReaper Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 I'm on a 3.5Mb line and I get between 280-350KB/s on well-seeded torrrents (usually private trackers).
stihia Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 Thank you very much, Nefarious.I wish I would have your connection, Hylex... On well seeded torrents on private trackers I reach 122 kB/s, wich is 95% of my connection speed.
ubitsa Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 I generally don't download anything unless I can get at least 500k/s, atm I'm downloading 3 things with ~700k/s each. I love utorrent
RAINMAN Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 I am on a 1.5mb line (pretty slow) and its rare that I get less then 120. So mor ethen 120 is what I consider good.
Ulayo Posted June 15, 2006 Report Posted June 15, 2006 A good transfer rate for me is anything that lets me complete a torrent in a reasonable time.
Switeck Posted June 15, 2006 Report Posted June 15, 2006 A good transfer rate for me is anything over 2x what I'm giving back. Since I'm able to upload at 40 KB/sec, if I download at 80 KB/sec that's good enough. I don't need to get torrents in an absolute hurry so long as I know I will get them. I actually DON'T want to download so fast my upload drops below 30 KB/sec -- then I can't seed back to >100% ratio as quickly. That in fact happens if my download rate exceeds about 300 KB/sec.
jroc Posted June 16, 2006 Report Posted June 16, 2006 200k and im happy. (I have 20Mbps down so as u can see im not greedy) And Im the same way Switeck. I try to be balanced: either already over 1 when finished DLing or near .500 when finished.
chezy Posted June 16, 2006 Report Posted June 16, 2006 My down speed is about 60kb/sec (480Kbps), anything above 50kb/sec is acceptable, with utorrent i get 56kb/sec on an average.
FORCE Posted June 16, 2006 Report Posted June 16, 2006 1.2 mbps i have got max when there is lot of seeders.
zoozooka Posted July 25, 2006 Report Posted July 25, 2006 it depends on the number of seeds in the swarmi could get 500KB/s for utorrent750KB/s for azureusbut different seeds respectively.
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