4mb/s line reality sets it

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william riker

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*sigh*
after the initial euphoria over my new 4mb line, its not as fast as i expected, torrent wise.
at the moment i'm cruising around 26kb/s, bursting once in a while to 170kb and crashing back down again..

was i expecting too much ? :wtf:
 
Torrents will be torrents,. don't ever expect your line speed to cap out on them, my 4MB line gives me a good 350kb/s on certain well seeded torrents, but it all depends on the torrent itself.

If you can download HTTP/FTP at 400kb/s you can do it with torrents too, you just need to hope for good seeds.
 
yip agree.. torrents will be torrents.. if you want to download at full speed, the best is to use international news servers.. believe me, your downloads will fly. I get about 420 kb/s on astraweb.
 
Also check your allowed concurrent half-open connections (I am assuming XP?) - those spikes that come crashing down often indicate that your OS is limiting tcp connections. Google how to change this. On well seeded torrents I always used to get +-90% line speed on my 4meg line when I used torrents.
 
Phenie said:
Torrents will be torrents,. don't ever expect your line speed to cap out on them, my 4MB line gives me a good 350kb/s on certain well seeded torrents, but it all depends on the torrent itself.

If you can download HTTP/FTP at 400kb/s you can do it with torrents too, you just need to hope for good seeds.
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what are the best international news servers ?
 
william riker said:
*sigh*
after the initial euphoria over my new 4mb line, its not as fast as i expected, torrent wise.
at the moment i'm cruising around 26kb/s, bursting once in a while to 170kb and crashing back down again..
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public international torrents? ja, they will yo-yo. it depends mostly on seed quality, but there are a few things you can try
enable DHT/PeerExhange, add more trackers, ensure you're connectable, even increase your upload speed a bit
 
Srack0verflow said:
public international torrents? ja, they will yo-yo. it depends mostly on seed quality, but there are a few things you can try
enable DHT/PeerExhange, add more trackers, ensure you're connectable, even increase your upload speed a bit
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+1
 
Messugga said:
Astraweb is one of the better ones and they offer some good packages for relatively little money.
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I agree. I max my 4mg connection out on Astraweb. For R90 a month its infinitly better than torrents... and its ssl secured ;)
 
Torrents are a pain as you're so dependent on seeders and if your looking for older stuff it tends to be impossible to find. Personally went over to file hosting site like rapidshare and megaupload and always max out my line(I was able to get a lifetime megaupload account for R1000).
 
thanks guys..
i went to astraweb and saw that they had 250GB for R190!
i want to try a once of account first then see what happens

when will we see such prices in SA ?
 
william riker said:
how does it work exactly ?

you just search for whatever tv show or movie you want and simply download it ?
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You look for NZB files and simply queue them up in the appropriate app with the Astraweb server's addy entered in the relevant area, and off you go.
 
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