I’m on a desktop and bitcomet download speeds have been slower ever since I moved my pc and had to use a Medialink USB Wireless Adapter, amazon link
My download speed is 300kb and I can surf and download at that speed in a browser, but when I download through bitcomet I get 100-150kb speed on this download with 5 seeds connected. I know for a fact I can get to 300kb speeds if i connected to the internet wired on even 2 seeds. I have my ports forwarded and everything. It just seems that my usb adapter works fine in almost every aspect of my internet except bitcomet downloads. Connecting wired is out of the option so I was hoping someone might know anything about my problem and could kindly inform me how to fix this if there is one.
If your WAN light is green, then using this type of adapter shouldn’t be a problem and shouldn’t effect your speeds.
Try downloading one of the openoffice torrents, they are well seeded and should show you if your able to download at your connections full speed or not.
well I tried downloading that torrent was getting 1 seed and was getting around 40 Kbps download. My WAN light is green though. Then i tried downloading a popular anime episode with 60 seeds and 700 peers and am now close to the 300 Kbps speed that i want. I guess it really comes down to how many seeds I have. It’s weird because i can recall downloading files that were getting fewer than 5 seeds but still get 300 Kbps speed when I was connected wired.
well i maxed out to 320 which is what my max should be in the open office with 8 seeds. It first started at 20 and maxed out in a minute. I guess some torrents just have low seeds with slow upload speeds which could explain my lack of speed.
reviving this thread again, bitcomet still not achieving max speeds consistently. I don’t understand how different hardware can affect bitcomet ONLY. My browsers not affected but bitcomet is. Connecting wired gets me to max speed at the very start. My wireless connection now just starts low like at 50Kb/s and sometimes goes to my max speed of 320Kb/s but then goes down back to the 100’s. I’d say I get around 110Kb/s consistently, less than half of my max speed.
You might have an issue with your wifi connection, see if you’re able to transfer files from one pc to another at a rate close to your wifi connection speed. If not, then you may need to relocate your wifi device, or perhaps upgrade it to a faster standard with greater range. Wifi “N” routers and adapters have become very cheap and might be your best option.
Well I think i found the solution. I unchecked a setting on my linksys router: “block anonymous internet request” aka block WAN request according to the more info.
Everything seems good so far, been getting my max speed consistently.