4mb Line Issue....

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Elev8r

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I just upgraded my 384k line to a 4mb line (wooohoooo:D) but for some reason i'm still only seeing around 50kbps-60kbps when downloading from various sites. Now in theory isn't a 4mb line supposed to have a max download speed of around 512kbps? I guess it depends on location an service availability an stuff but surely i should be seeing more than a 50kbps speed when downloading on my 4mb line?

I've just upgraded today so.... maybe i should wait a bit or something, but my modem tells me that my DownStream Connection Speed=4096 kbps and my UpStream Connection Speed=512 kbps.... so i wonder why i'm still getting 384-512k line speeds on my "apparently" 4mb line....

Got a 4mb line? If so whats your actual download speed?
 
Have you tried speed tests using the local mirrors/servers provided on speed test sites (e.g. www.speedtest.net and/or www.speed.io)?

You should get about 3400Kbps down and 430Kbps up, which translates to about 425KB/sec and 53KB/sec respectively.

You won't get these speeds on international sites while browsing, though... You'll need to use a download manager and multi-thread your downloads.
 
also you need a multi thread downloader in order to maximise the line otherwise you get shaped big time and you will only ever see the full speed when downloading locally.
 
Best test I've seen is to download a bit of the Ubuntu cd. You always get your full line speed there.
 
i upgraded to 4mg line mid month september and i most certainly had faster downloads. for example i downloaded 2 and a half gigs in just under 4hours today. i was getting about 50kb download per download. but then i was downloading multiples.
perhaps you should phone and make sure they have upgraded your line.
 
the IS semi-shaped comes close to 4Mbps after hours. But yeah check what speeds it does from local sites.
 
for some reason my previous 2 posts never showed up. After posting i got a message saying "thanks for your post... you'll be able to view you post after it has been moderated" or something like that. Nice work mods.

Anyway everything works fine, but i have a new problem, my torrents go INCREDIBLY slow... yes my bandwidth is shaped but when i had my 384k line i was downloading torrents at 30-40KB/s now i barely get 5KB/s down! I haven't changed ISP's or anything. I've tried several very popular torrents and none of them ever download faster than 5KB/s. Anyone know why this is? Or maybe have some sort of solution or advice?
 
You have still not posted speed test results.

Please also post your line statistics (noise margin, attentuation, etc.)

Regarding your new issue: what ISP and type of access are you using? At what time did you test your torrent downloads (peak or offpeak)? And when did you do this (e.g. yesterday, when every man and his dog was trying to use up his remaining bandwidth)?
 
fz1 said:
You have still not posted speed test results.

Please also post your line statistics (noise margin, attentuation, etc.)

Regarding your new issue: what ISP and type of access are you using? At what time did you test your torrent downloads (peak or offpeak)? And when did you do this (e.g. yesterday, when every man and his dog was trying to use up his remaining bandwidth)?
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Har har :) that made me laugh... here's my speed test results:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/331978552.png

I've also realised that your download speed depends very very heavily on the server you're downloading from... anyway here are my line statistics:

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4096 kbps 512 kbps
Line Attenuation 25.0 db 11.5 db
Noise Margin 18.3 db 12.0 db

My ISP is WebOnline, 5GB account, shaped. I tried downloading from torrents in both peak and off peak, yesterday, when every man and his dog was trying to use up his remaining bandwidth :p hehe, I'm gonna try re installing uTorrrent, if that doesn't work, i'll try a different torrent app.
 
Line stats seem fine, as do the speed test results (except the ping is a little high). Can you do a test at: www.speed.io and tell me what the 'connections' benchmark result is?

How long did you leave your torrent running? My torrents always start very slow and take about 30 minutes to an hour to really get up to speed.

What was the availability of the torrent, number of seeds, number of peers, etc.?

Do you see a 'green' status icon indicating that uTorrent can receive incoming connections properly?

I don't think changing your torrent client will fix the issue, but there's no harm in trying.
 
http://speed.io/pics/1185/0981/speed.io.png

Thats my speed.io test result thing.

I was downloading a few minutes ago an i got about 30KB/s down so maybe mine also take a while to start up and then eventually they get going, it's just, with my 384k line downloads started almost immediately... Their were 4700 seeds and 2300 peers... I never got more than 30KB/s down (it often hovered at around 10KB/s). The status icon in uTorrent is green and i just updated my client version to 1.8 (ignored the newer beta). I left it downloading for about an hour i think.

Thanks for all your feedback fz1 :P

An to Peppercorns, thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
 
How fast are you uploading? And how many seeds/peers were you connected to?

Your connection benchmarks seem fine. I'm starting to think that it is either that particular torrent or your ISP changing shaping policies (if not your torrent client's settings being off) :p

I suggest you try downloading something extremely well seeded such as OpenOffice - I always hit near-line speed within a few minutes. If it's still slow, try another client or try resetting uTorrent's settings to defaults. If that doesn't help, it must be your ISP. Try some unshaped bandwidth if you can (or IS Fibre Semi-shaped).
 
I was uploading at about the same speed as i was downloading (5-30KB/s). I'm busy downloading OOo and even that is going really slowly (same speeds as previoulsy mentioned). I've tried a differnet client (BitComet) and i even tried downloading using my browser (Opera, which surprisingly has torrent support built in). I think i'm gonna phone my ISP, see what they have to say. If i do switch to an unshapped account, will that DEFINITELY solve my torrent issues?
 
Elev8r said:
ok, look here: http://i37.tinypic.com/6qupza.jpg

surely something is wrong?
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Looks like there is something wrong: I found the torrent (matched the hash and all) and let it run for 5 minutes. It downloaded 25MB (for an average download speed of 88KB/sec) and was downloading at 130KB/sec when I stopped the torrent.

Right, so it's not the torrent. That leaves your ISP (I'm using Nexus/IS Fibre Semi-shaped), and it leaves your uTorrent configuration (then again, you've said you tried other clients). You say that you were uploading at the same speeds you were downloading (up to 30Kb/sec?). If you don't limit your upload speed, it will kill your download speed. On a 4Mbps connection, I've found that limiting up speed to 20KB/sec is just about right (as well as limiting number of connections per torrent to about 50, with 4 upload slots).

In response to your question about whether unshaped will definitely solve the issue: no, I cannot say for sure. But, what you could do is grab yourself some IS Fibre Semi-shaped prepaid bandwidth from Axxess and give it a shot. If it still runs slowly, then it has to be your line/modem-router/computer...
 
Here's another pic (from a different computer, my laptop): http://i35.tinypic.com/33w9jj9.jpg

I've tried quite a few different torrents and they all seem to have the same widly variating download speeds. They all reach 90KB/s and sometimes over, and then come ALL the way back down to about 20KB/s. Download speed goes all the way up, and then all the way down, and does that continuously over and over, never maintaining a constant speed. I'm gonna try fiddle with uTorrent's settings and see what i can do.

Other than that I think I'm gonna google that "Nexus/IS Fibre Semi-shaped" stuff and see what i can come up with.

I'll also try that torrentrelay thing....
 
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