torrent speed

WiT8litZ said:
my torrent speed NEVER goes above 6kb/s. In fact, it's fixed at that speed. No idea why :confused:
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Thast becuase iburst shape torrents (or most of them I geuss) to 64kb.. so 6kb is what you should get from torrents and P2P.

My p2p apps, besides the unshaped one i usually use, only go at about 6-10kb. but with a proxy, like the half monthly free one from open web.. i got up to 80kb on limewire and kazaa.. but 80kb is pretty fast for my connection in general, im shure you can do full speed.

I can get 100kb out of my other P2P just normally.
 
Jongi said:
S1ght and JTech are the speeds above 5kB/s consistent? Are you on a package other than the 9GB one?
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Mine don't stay at like a constant number eg like it'll go 50 for 2 min then 55 then 50, that kind of thing but they dont usually drop a huge amount & im on the 1gig package :D
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
I dont think a torrent speed of 0.01 kb is even working at all. It probably isnt set up right or you have no sources etc..

I even downloaded a torrent just straight up with Opera 9 built in bittorrent without changing settings and I could et about a kb or two going through.

But I hate torretns anyway.. damn uplaod speed.
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What's up with torrents' upload speed?! Can't they bloody shape that! It's super fast and the downloads suck. I'm dissappointed in Iburst now. Surely you should get a speed with over a hundred seeders... :(
 
WiT8litZ said:
uhm...where do I get this!?
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Thats the connection info:

Socks: free.blazetalk.com 20
Proxy: free.blazetalk.com 443

Username: openweb
Password: free

You can just put that into any app that supports either socks or a proxy. Any browser and almost all P2P's will have this.

But since a few months ago, it only works for the first 15 days of every month. Yet at the moment it doesnt seem to be working for me. The old free proxy was much better, always worked.
This is all run by Mr.Beep of OpenWeb. So you can ask him about it i geuss..
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Thats the connection info:

Socks: free.blazetalk.com 20
Proxy: free.blazetalk.com 443

Username: openweb
Password: free

You can just put that into any app that supports either socks or a proxy. Any browser and almost all P2P's will have this.

But since a few months ago, it only works for the first 15 days of every month. Yet at the moment it doesnt seem to be working for me. The old free proxy was much better, always worked.
This is all run by Mr.Beep of OpenWeb. So you can ask him about it i geuss..
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whoa, thx man!
 
Does anyone know if there is a local torrent tracker and what the address is?
 
There are only uber secretive, "upload slow and we kick you", ninja like torrent sites in SA I think.

They wouldnt allow Ibursters into their group...

Im not shuer if there are any other free, open SA torrent sites. Just use DC++, or any normal P2P or direct downloads off the internet, who needs torrents?
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
There are only uber secretive, "upload slow and we kick you", ninja like torrent sites in SA I think.

They wouldnt allow Ibursters into their group...

Im not shuer if there are any other free, open SA torrent sites. Just use DC++, or any normal P2P or direct downloads off the internet, who needs torrents?
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IMO it's better to use torrents for 4GB downloads. What's this DC++? is it better than limewire or something? and why is only a thumbnail available?

Do you know the reason why Iburstes weren't allowed? I would like to get onto a local torrent
 
Interesting. There's info on DC++ at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC++

Anyway, I use torrent over edonkey and other as it is much, much faster. Using a local tracker would help a lot if the local bandwidth is not going to be capped.

Doesn't locking down a tracker kind of defeat the purpose anyway. I don't understand totally how they work, but I would have though that more users mean faster downloads?
 
A bit off topic here, but being on ADSL I also have seen torrents sped up over last few weeks. Maybe it's our international link that is getting upgraded a bit.

All speculations though.
 
Had a big supprise last night.
After my cap was reached and I was on a 64k connection I was able to download torrents at between 20kb/s - 40kb/s.

I am not even able to downloads torrents at this speed at the beginning of the month. Must have been local peers.
 
This month I used torrents for the first time since I moved to the G9 package, so I can confirm that torrents speeds are pretty good, up to 60KB/s on some files, and up to 100KB/s on all files combined, but it does depend heavily on the number of seeds/peers each file has.
 
The G9 package is unshaped (lucky bastard!). That's why your flying...
 
sabagamma said:
The G9 package is unshaped (lucky bastard!). That's why your flying...
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:) I wasn't meaning to brag. Just that I was asked about G9 torrent speeds in another thread some time ago, but at that time I wasn't using torrents. When I was on the G3, last year, torrents barely crawled along, even using proxy servers.

I still don't see any point to shaping any of the Iburst packages. If you've got, 1, 3, 6, or 9 gigs to use, it makes absolutely no difference to anybody how or why they are used. When they are used up, they are used up, and you go to the throttled service. It changes none of the network dynamics.
 
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