Traffic Management on P2P
 

Hi all,

Have VIVID 200 which speed test to various servers show is hitting 220mbps (a bit of an upgrade from BT Infinity at 20mbps!!)

However, no matter what I do I can't get uTorrent to hit anything above 14.6MBps. Connection is fine, lots of people in the swarm and capacity to max out the connection. Have tried loads of different torrents from Linux Distros and doesn't seem to make a difference.

Is this Virgin managing my connection or more likely something on my PC end?

Re: Traffic Management on P2P
 

Possibly, the best thing you can do is try it first thing in the morning or over night. 15MB/sec is 120mbits and VM do operate "traffic shaping" during peak periods. P2p isn't throttled in the sense that it is capped to x mbits, it is flagged as low priority which means you get whatever bandwidth is left on VM's end and during the evenings and weekends this can be anything from full speed down to 10mbits.

That being said, have you checked the utorrent settings to make sure some sort of bandwidth limitation metric hasn't been enabled or one of these auto speed estimate things?

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There are many many factors that affect torrent download speeds.

If you are getting 14.6M down you are doing fine, its not the same as direct downloads.

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I do hope the OP is using a VPN for torrenting.

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That would not do much for their speeds.
Its still unlikely that it matters that much atm.

Using private sites helps if that's a worry.

Seedboxes are also useful.

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Nope, under the right circumstances torrents should be better. I regularly get max speed of just over 48MB/sec

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So you disagree with General Maximus then, or are you saying VPN connections are also treated as low priority as well.

Not forgetting with a VPN VM cannot see the data passing through.

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I read it that paul was saying you wouldnt get a speed increase from using a vpn and if you are concerned about privacy you could use a private tracker or seedbox.
VPN traffic isnt treated as low priority by the isp however you have still got the same issue with speed. I have struggled to find a provider i can get full speed with, especially on torrents. I wont go into now but if anything i have found they either throttle the connection or drop it altogether.

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I didn't but hey ho. My VPN does cause a drop due to the routing, a whole 4mbps. (Not MB)

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That's the problem, it is pathetic and the last time i was on 3mbits was 15 years ago. I would say 90% of my bandwith usage is on torrents so having 90% of my teaffic going at 3mbits makes having a 370mbit connection redundant. It is less than 1% of my max speed.

Edit: do you mean it runs at 4mbits or you lose 4mbits off connection speed? When i was using PIA i coukdnt get more than 70k/sec.

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I'm sorry I think you misunderstood. Drop in top speed is just 4mbps, not torrents download at 3mbps.

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which vpn provider do you use and what is your max speed?

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https://vpnarea.com/front/

My max on wireless is 68Mbps without VPN and 66with. My friend ditched VM for SKY as he got a better overall deal.

Confused? Just have a look under Lexa on the left.

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cool, ta

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