iBurst Torrent Question

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Reelix

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Hi all!

As I'm capped right now, I'm deciding to bide my time downloading torrents(SC2 beta, nothing bad) on my free (For now) 64k line.

I seem to have found... rather an anomaly.

I am currently connected to 25 people, and downloading between 2-5kb/s (Sorta expected on this connection) - But uploading between 18-25kb/s - I initially thought it was my upload speed limiting me (Not fully sure how it works...) So I dropped my upload speed limit to 1kb/s, which it did, yet my download speed stayed the same.

For this, I can think of two possible explanations:

1.) I have 25 overly stingy seeders

2.) iBurst Limits Torrent Downloads, but Not Torrent Uploads.

Anyone care to explain, or is this just a random coincidence? :)

- Reelix

- Edit -

This was done over a 16 hour period, checked and changed every several hours, with identical results.
 
2.) iBurst Limits Torrent Downloads, but Not Torrent Uploads.
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As I understand it, is that iBurst throttles your DL speeds and not your UP speeds.

When I send email, it sends at full speed.

Someone else can chime in and confirm this.
 
Reelix said:
Hi all!

As I'm capped right now, I'm deciding to bide my time downloading torrents(SC2 beta, nothing bad) on my free (For now) 64k line.

I seem to have found... rather an anomaly.

I am currently connected to 25 people, and downloading between 2-5kb/s (Sorta expected on this connection) - But uploading between 18-25kb/s - I initially thought it was my upload speed limiting me (Not fully sure how it works...) So I dropped my upload speed limit to 1kb/s, which it did, yet my download speed stayed the same.

For this, I can think of two possible explanations:

1.) I have 25 overly stingy seeders

2.) iBurst Limits Torrent Downloads, but Not Torrent Uploads.

Anyone care to explain, or is this just a random coincidence? :)

- Reelix

- Edit -

This was done over a 16 hour period, checked and changed every several hours, with identical results.
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You wasted
the 1.9GB you had left of cap on uploading. FAIL :p

@Madhawk. I thought it was standard for emails and browsing to have a higher priority than downloading/torrents
 
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Reelix said:
Hi all!

As I'm capped right now, I'm deciding to bide my time downloading torrents(SC2 beta, nothing bad) on my free (For now) 64k line.

I seem to have found... rather an anomaly.

I am currently connected to 25 people, and downloading between 2-5kb/s (Sorta expected on this connection) - But uploading between 18-25kb/s - I initially thought it was my upload speed limiting me (Not fully sure how it works...) So I dropped my upload speed limit to 1kb/s, which it did, yet my download speed stayed the same.

For this, I can think of two possible explanations:

1.) I have 25 overly stingy seeders

2.) iBurst Limits Torrent Downloads, but Not Torrent Uploads.

Anyone care to explain, or is this just a random coincidence? :)

- Reelix

- Edit -

This was done over a 16 hour period, checked and changed every several hours, with identical results.
Click to expand...

Dunno about the uploading part but I don't see why your download speed would change at all by limiting them, you're throttled to 7KB/s and torrents are never really completely stable I guess :)
 
Jagtiger said:
Simple answer. No torrents (shaped).
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I cant believe that people still think this, when I have cap again I'll upload a screen shot of myself dl'ing via a torrent at full speeds :rolleyes:

@ Reelix, when you are capped you can't dl much faster than 5-7KB/s because you download speed is throttled. Your upload speed however is not throttled when you are capped, so be a good samaritan and seed all of your movies :D
 
Nope. Bought a 1gig booster sometime last week. This was just to show people that iburst don't shape torrents like everyone thinks they do.
 
I only use torrents while iam throttled and 9/10 times my share ratio is about 2. Busy downloading a 4.8 gig file, ive downloaded about 3.8 Gig and uploaded 6.1 Gig already.
 
If protocol encryption is not enabled iBurst will shape the torrent until you are frustrated and stop downloading them. There are also suspicions that upstream ISP's are targetting some trackers.
 
Not sure why people still use torrents imo.
There are much better/easier ways.
 
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