Faster Torrents?

[Spartan Sh4dow]

Alright, So Im using Transmission fully port forwarded, my ISP can get up to 12MB/s and I only once have seem 1MB/s

I usually get about 700kB/s or so...


Any way to get faster speeds?

 

[t0mat0]

Alright, So Im using Transmission fully port forwarded, my ISP can get up to 12MB/s and I only once have seem 1MB/s
I usually get about 700kB/s or so...
Any way to get faster speeds?

Have you checked your speed on a torrent that's well seeded? What's your upload speed rate maximum that your provider gives? Might be worth checking a speed check both up and down to see what you can get.

 

[Spartan Sh4dow]

There's a speed test I did.

 

[Koronis]

Are you sure the speed you get is 12MB, from your speed test, its looks like you get 12Mb , which is about 1.5MB. 700KB is still about half of your maximum speed, but that can depend on the seeding of your torrents.

(MB = megabytes and Mb = megabits)

 

[kastenbrust]

1) Enable port forwarding

2) Disable any firewalls you many have, even on your router

3) During busy times of day, lunchtime, evening etc your download speed can go down as much as 90%

4) Publicly available torrents (piratebay etc) are terrible for download speeds because your downloading them from other amateur users, private torrents are much better.

 

[nayr]

I agree with what other people have posted. You might also want to try newsgroups.

 

[KingYaba]

Comcast. Run this: http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php

 

[Spartan Sh4dow]

Comcast. Run this: http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php

So my ISP is blocking it? What the heck. How can they do that if your paying for their service... What ISPs dont block?

 

[gatepc]

So my ISP is blocking it? What the heck. How can they do that if your paying for their service... What ISPs dont block?

actually thats what net neutrality is all about, technically its illegal for them to do it but they do it anyway

 

[Makosuke]

It usually goes by the euphemism "traffic shaping." Cox started doing that a few years ago, and when their customer support lied to me about it I immediately switched to DSL and never looked back. And they *did* lie, because it came out just recently during congressional hearings that they'd been doing it for a while, which confirmed what I and some other users had figured out at the time.

AT&T claims publicly that they have no problem at all with BT and other filesharing as long as the files are legit, and indeed, so far, I've never had the slightest problem with them and BT. I still strongly dislike the company for other reasons, but as far as this goes they seem to be doing the right thing.