Wireless Iburst & Torrents

[DenSweep]

What kind of speeds do you guys get in general when downloading torrents? And are you using any specific settings or such with your torrent clients or special settings on routers and open ports etc?


Thanks

 

[isie]

What kind of speeds do you guys get in general when downloading torrents? And are you using any specific settings or such with your torrent clients or special settings on routers and open ports etc?


Thanks

Iburst throttles torent downlods so speed for that is just slightly below crap

 

[Mental-Tree]

The fastest speeds I've achieved while downloading a torrent was 85KB/s. Watch this and remember that your upload to download ratio also determines your download speeds to a certain extent. Aka if you never let things upload you can't expect to have high download speeds.

Watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAdU6y_dhQg

 

[DenSweep]

So there is no way to improve your torrent downloading with Iburst? I remember i once used to attain speeds of over 50kb/s and one month manged to get over 100!!! Now i'm lucky to see 5kb/s, before or after reaching cap.

 

[Mental-Tree]

Read up denSweep.

 

[deweyzeph]

Turn on encryption for your torrents and you should see your speed increase.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

Turn on encryption for your torrents and you should see your speed increase.

+1 try hide the fact that you are using a torrent application with encryption. It helps a little!

BTW this is what I think of iBust at the moment...

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[Kei]

Those of you with claims to 85kbit/sec on torrents are just lucky. Whatever it is you are/were downloading, was likely being seeded by another iBurst user.

I got rid of iBurst because torrents were dead, I could download nothing. ADSL works, always, consistently and permanently.

Jannie van Zyl told me personally this issue would be sorted out, am not surprised to see it remains as of today's date.

The only current, technically feasible, and neat solution to this problem is the use of VPN's. Protocol encryption, as implemented in all current BitTorrent clients, is easily nailed by iBurst's traffic shaping system. My suspicion is that it is sandvine that is being used but there are other products which work just as well.

Anybody who tells you a proxy server, or Tor, is a solution, doesn' t have a clue about TCP/IP and how protocol shapers work.

 

[deweyzeph]

I get up to 20KB/s download with encryption turned on, and only 8KB/s with it turned off.

 

[DenSweep]

Where precisely do i turn on encryption?

 

[Kei]

I get up to 20KB/s download with encryption turned on, and only 8KB/s with it turned off.

Where are your seeders located? SA? on 41.208.xxx.xxx IP ranges?

I've done various experiments that prove iBurst interfere with torrents. One of my experiments involved seeding from the iBurst node, to MWEB ADSL, which had the same effect as mentioned, 20kb/s with "protocol obfuscation" turned on.

iBurst interfere with the ability to connect to peers internationally, injecting bogus TCP responses and more. and I have done side-by-side protocol analysis using the identically same torrent. The moment someone locally (in SA) begins seeding the file during the course of normal bittorrent operation, it downloads on iBurst. Since my interests do not coincide with the South African masses, my torrents remained dead until the day I connected my ADSL line and they came alive and I was able to complete the downloads. So therefore, totally useless to me. That is why the VPN was so critical, it enabled me to download stuff that most people in SA are just not interested in.

At one stage I asked friends to download the torrent so I could connect to their computer to leech from them. Pretty pointless they could have downloaded the whole thing and sent me a DVD in the mail.

I can re-do the experiment at any time under even more controlled conditions.

iBurst don't just nail BitTorrent either, they also agressively nail eMule, which is a total disaster, as you will see when you try to run eMule. You will notice how search results are sparse, and servers refuse to accept connections from your client.

They also throttle video streaming from YouTube and Facebook is also choked.