why is p2p so slow

[Inevitable]

if i try download on a p2p program like kazaa or overnet or edonkey it takes forever!!i get very slow speeds. using bittorent is much faster but less reliable?
any1 comment?

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[wizix]

if sentech knew the answer to that one they'd have a lot of happy customers.

 

[Wireless2]

I bet there is some tiny little switch out there somewhere on some hub / junction box that some installer forgot to switch from position 1 to position 2 that will fix everything if only they would find it

FIND IT SENTECH, NOW!!!!!!

 

[Deckert]

Sentech might be starting to apply port-shaping to keep p2p traffic within acceptable limits, i.e. the network is opimized for incoming web/ftp/mail, not for sending around heaps of iles to other users. Pure speculation on my part, but it has been the natural course with many broadband providers here and internationally. It's the only thing they can do to keep network traffic levels sane.

--deckert

 

[Donovan]

Hmm... well I use shareaza (the Edonkey/Gnutella thing), and my speeds aren't too bad for P2P packages. On common files it's around 12kb/s, or on rare ones anything from 1.5kb/s to 4kb/s. I usually hover around 6kb/s...

 

[Jhbgirl]

My bittorent is flying today. Speed for this particular download is peaking at 32kb. I think it all just depends on your sources or whatever. I don't often get it to run this fast. It also took me a while to get my router configured to work with it properly. Some manuals are so useless :|

 

[Comrade Borris]

Did Swinetech ever advertise that they would not utilise port <s>raping </s> shaping???