[merged] NTL & BitTorrent

Originally Posted by bigsinky

any probs in the belfast area with torrent files. i have gone from a solid 125k a second to less than 10k a second. web browsing is unaffected and microshaft update come down at a good rate of knots.

cheers

big sinky

Then I'd guess the uploader (s) arent uploading at the same rate.
If browinf etc is fine, the only place the problem can be is the person (s) sending you the file. Check the amount of sources, look at them in detail and see how many of the sources have ALL the file.

I dont use torrents now purely because I could get stuff faster on 9.2k dialup!!

[mint0]

torrents do seem to jig about at different rates, but theres good quality stuff if you have the patience to wait for it!

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by mint0

torrents do seem to jig about at different rates, but theres good quality stuff if you have the patience to wait for it!

very true and to the site , and what is your favourite flavour of bittorrent if i may ask ???????????

[TigaSefi]

Shadow's always works for me at 55k no problem

[SOSAGES]

i started on shadows as soon as he released his first version did some testing for him - now im a azurus? man - its a well made client and well worth it

btw torrent speeds wont allways go top speed im sure u know why be happy with the 10k

[bigsinky]

is this not an apple mac client? i am using the latest shadow client here btw. oh look on the bright side my download has gone up from 10k/sec to 25k/sec, with little bursts of 125k/sec. so no worries NTL must be ballixing about again. thanks for the replies guys.

cheers

big sinky

[SOSAGES]

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by SOSAGES

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

just swapped over to that from bitcomet , seems to be better

[SOSAGES]

speeds on all torrent clients seem to be the same for me - i just like azureus as its pretty and has some nice options

[bigsinky]

just download and installed azureus. pretty slick . does it resume BT downloads auto matically if your router/pc/modem goes down.

cheers

big sinky

[Richard M]

I think so yeah, I know you can pause downloads and shut down the client.
If you're getting slow speeds remember to check that people can connect to you, i.e. port forwarding on your router.

[paulyoung666]

what i have noticed is that azureus doesnt seem to cripple my browsing , bitcomet used to for some reason , even if the max upload was set to 10k/s on a 1 mb line

problem with torrents sometimes is like i had once

I was downloading a album of which everyone seemed to have 94% i got 120kbs solid till 94% then a solid 0kbs, just depends if u race above the person with high upload rate say,

You download a torrent

100mb say

someone is uploading at 86kbs but only had 92% and the person in front of him is only uploading at 3kbs

When you hit 92% you will not be downloading from this person at 86kbs you will move to the person at 3kbs although sharing you could only get 1.5kbs if your lucky,

Torrents are a good idea if everyone had 1mb upload and download lol. And actually kept torrents open once downloading and uploaded it.

[KyleMac]

This is a c'n'p of what I just posted to the newsgroups.

Usually I can max out both my download and upload on torrents. Now I get
on average 1.1kb/s down, but can still max out my upload.

My cable went down twice before the speed increase. Once for 10 minutes,
then again for 10 minutes 2 days later. When it came back the second
time I had the speed increase.

Thinking back though, bittorrent has been slow since the first downtime,
not the second.

[jtwn]

I dont know, i usually hold steady about 65kB/s most of the time on a 1.5mbit.

What bt client do you use? Is there a health status, or a green or yellow light?