Does anybody know...

[TSE]

Ok, so I am downloading a huge torrent. I am using Miro as my torrent downloader as it has been faster than Xtorrent and other ones I used. About an hour ago, it was downloading consistently between 100KB/S - 400 KB/S, now all of a sudden it is down to 7 KB/S! This is going to take forever at this speed! What can I do to speed it up?

 

[Schtumple]

Hope it connects to more/better seeds?

Try stopping and restarting it, might connect to some new/fast seeders

 

[shfreelance]

Do you have Comcast?

 

[r.j.s]

Do you have Comcast?

Yeah, your provider, regardless of who it is, might be limiting your d/l speed to save bandwidth.

 

[TSE]

Yes. I am also on Wireless 802.11g with my MacBook Pro, getting all bars though.

 

[Schtumple]

Yes. I am also on Wireless 802.11g with my MacBook Pro, getting all bars though.

Some ISPs are now clamping down on P2P traffic, and will also limit your bandwidth on the fly as posted above.

 

[mkrishnan]

I'm not a super expert, but isn't this what happens when a torrent has few seeds / no one has downloaded the whole thing yet? You and a bunch of other people have the first few megs of it, so you get great speeds getting that part from a dozen different sources. Then it dries up, because you have the part that everyone else has, but no one has the part you need?

 

[TSE]

It has 9 Seeders and 12 Leechers.

 

[r.j.s]

Probably ISP limiting P2P traffic then.

 

[Schtumple]

It has 9 Seeders and 12 Leechers.

Yeah, that's probably why, normally I don't bother with a torrent below 25 seeders, because the speed is always terrible...

Find a new torrent is all I can say...

 

[7on]

I always stick it out. I have a dedicated machine for torrenting and I usually forget about it being on and the next time I check I'm like "Oh my torrent is done". Still, most my torrents don't get done sooner than a week.