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Geek_wannabe

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Ok, here is a link to a scrfeenshot, and this shows the speed of a p2p download.
I am on 384 line. This speed you are seeing in screenshot has been going on for the past few hours. I took that at 06:18. it is now 10:00 and I have downloaded now 75% of a 1 gig file.

Screenshot on 06:18 PM: http://tinypic.com/jl451u.png
Screenshot at 10:00 PM: http://tinypic.com/jl45l3.png

Anyway, sorry I blurred a few things out...dont ask me why. i see people tend to do that in screenshots...so I thought I'd do it aswell. And no, I am not downloading a movie. It is a few audio files, and no, not music MP3's. The point is, is that speed normal for a torrent file on a 384 line?
 
That's quite normal for a 384 line. :) I get 55kb/sec sometimes.
 
Wow. Thanks. I felt so special for once. :'(

Lol, anyway, I wonder what the speed will be on a 512 line then...
 
Geek_wannabe said:
Wow. Thanks. I felt so special for once. :'(
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No problem. That's what I do. Destroy hopes and dreams. It's kind of a hobby, you see. :D
 
I've got a 512k line and I seldom get speeds above 40k/s for torrents. FTP is almost always over 50k/s though.
 
we live in a country were "shaping" is common (actually, thats it)...if we didnt have shaping we would get download speeds on p2p that go at the same speed as our normal http downloads...

unfortunatly, that is just not a reality at this current state in time :(
 
Angstrom said:
Sure, I just think it's bizarre that my speeds are significantly lower then a 384k line.
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Do you have any idea how far you are from the exchange? Apparently the farther away you are, the slower your speed.

That's another thing that Telkom does not tell you, so you end up paying for 512, say, when you can only get 384 speeds due to distance.

Check it out. You could save a few bucks every month.
 
im lucky...the exchange is about 40m from my house...i got 192 and get 384, plus im the only one on the DSLAM (thats why i had to wait 5 months for telkom to install the thing)
 
Geek_wannabe said:
Ok, here is a link to a scrfeenshot, and this shows the speed of a p2p download.
I am on 384 line. This speed you are seeing in screenshot has been going on for the past few hours. I took that at 06:18. it is now 10:00 and I have downloaded now 75% of a 1 gig file.

Screenshot on 06:18 PM: http://tinypic.com/jl451u.png
Screenshot at 10:00 PM: http://tinypic.com/jl45l3.png

Anyway, sorry I blurred a few things out...dont ask me why. i see people tend to do that in screenshots...so I thought I'd do it aswell. And no, I am not downloading a movie. It is a few audio files, and no, not music MP3's. The point is, is that speed normal for a torrent file on a 384 line?
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That's pretty hectic. 3 pertinent questions: Who is your ISP? Do you use an unshaped proxy? Have you tweaked anything that you can think of?
Thanks!
 
The only time i get 100kB/s from torrents are when i download from legaltorrents.com all the others speed sucks.
 
Swazi said:
The only time i get 100kB/s from torrents are when i download from legaltorrents.com all the others speed sucks.
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So I presume that at all other times you are downloading illegal torrents? :eek:
 
You know, I saw in CSI, with a quick flick of my cursor in my Anti Blur program, I can unblur those pics and see what you were really downloading ;)
 
EdRobinson said:
That's pretty hectic. 3 pertinent questions: Who is your ISP? Do you use an unshaped proxy? Have you tweaked anything that you can think of?
Thanks!
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My ISP is TelkomInternet
I do not have any proxy of any kind
I have not tweaked anything exept setting the port the P2P connects through in BitComet settings, to 49958 because that is the prime number anything above 49950 (i think) and above to a certain number (which I also cannot remember) is what they reccomend you set to.
 
swordfish1 said:
So I presume that at all other times you are downloading illegal torrents? :eek:
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Incorrect presumption Watson.
 
Overseas, are the point of torrents not to offer FASTER downloads of large files...or is it my imagination.
 
Geek_wannabe said:
Overseas, are the point of torrents not to offer FASTER downloads of large files...or is it my imagination.
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Thus saving bandwidth, try telling that to Telkom or try downloading a Linux iso image and it crawls sometimes.
 
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