s.o.s about rates

[asi2k5]

hello everyone

im little new in bitorrnet/torrnet or whatever , i try to download some stuff and my download rate

are very very low , about 14kb average speed .

i'm using a belkin routher , but i already portforwod it and also apply the xp sp2 patch to

my computer , i check my DL\UL speed and it's about 160/90 so i try to limit the

upload speed to 60 or 70 but didnt help too.

i realy dont know what to try next ???

plz help me

thanx

[The UnUsual Suspect]

are you sure your measuring your d/u speed in the same units that bit torrent uses?

Most ISPs and test sites measure speed in "b" or bits, and bit torrent measures in "B" bytes.

Please be specific, as you mislabeled the download speed you are getting, and didn't specify your test results, also, it would not be very common to get 160kB/s download, and 90kB/s upload, as most ISPs provide much more upload, and much less download.

Without knowing exactly what you have, its hard to advise you.

Suspect

[asi2k5]

i check my dl\ul speed in two site and i get these messages :

first site give me only DL :Your download speed is 187.5 kilo bytes per second (or 1500kbps)

http://speedtest.fresh.co.i

and the second site give me 1507kbps DL and 126kbps UL

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

and BTW do u know what is ICMP Ping and should it be on or off ?

[asi2k5]

there is no one that can help me on that issue ? plz

thanx

[The UnUsual Suspect]

Hi, this explains a bit more.

Your max upload rate based on that test is less then 16kB/s, and your max download rate is about 187kB/s. Both of these are measured in the same units that bit torrent protocall use.

Bit torrent gives the most download speed to those who upload the most, so your not going to get really good speeds if your max upload is only 16kB/s. Plus, if you use all your upload bandwidth for sending data, you will have none left for comunication with the tracker. I suggest you set your global max upload rate to about 12 or 13kB/s.

Also turn off "dht", and set max simultaneous download tasks to 1.

(don't expect my advice to "replace" throughly going through the settings guides)

I would also recommend not running downloading torrents while you are seeding others, as you don't have the bandwidth to do both at the same time.

Here is a link where you can download "open office". Try one of their torrents, and see what kind of speed you get. This will be a good test.

http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/index.html

You don't have to let the torrent finish if you don't want it, but it is a great product, and a free alternative to products like Microsoft office.

I would expect you would be able to see speeds approaching 150kB/s with this torrent, or any torrent that is Extremely well seeded, but adverage torrents will more closely reflect your upload speed.

Suspect

[pjhaahl]

Also turn off "dht", and set max simultaneous download tasks to 1

Can I just ask, why do you recommend turning off DHT.

Ive been trying to fine tune my settings after you kindly helped me out recently but this is one thing I left on.

Is having DHT enabled only useful if you are not getting a tracker connection and/or the number of seed/peer connections are less than the number you allow in the settings?

Generally find at worst, torrent I see are have 9+seed 300+ peers so i am never connecting to all available.

(Ive set myself up for 1 simult download task/ 200 connections, and limited my uploads to 24K/b/s as per the 80% guide recommendation.)

In theory I should be able to achieve around 140K down but even on the torrent link you posted I only ever achieve about 60K/bs despite my tinkering.

THanks