BitTorrent throttled on Cable?

[lordy]

I have 4M Cable and 3M ADSL with ADSL24
Both networks are reachable from my main PC.

When I download torrents via Cable the speed is often lower than upload speed
(which I have capped to 80% bandwidth - about 27KB/s) - as soon as I switch
interface to ADSL, (ifdown eth0) the download speed jumps up significantly (like over 10 times faster) ,
often maxing out the line if using a popular torrent.
This is despite
a) having my full cable bandwidth available. (ie not hit download limits)
b) using the same upload as for cable - as my ADSL line has more upload available.

I have tested this with a number of different torrents at different times of the day. The results are always the same. Torrents via Cable barely match upload speed, but via ADSL I'm getting over 2M/s+.

I have
- about 5 upload slots/80 connections per torrent,
- only one torrent running, 20% upload free.
- Running on a high port, and
- tested with and without encryption..

My ADSL line consistently outperforms the Cable using torrents. Despite having less bandwidth.

Does anyone get good torrent performance on their cable connection these days?

My Cable router is WRT54GS running Tomato 1.07 (which is supposed to be a fast firmware).

Of course using newsgroups is a different matter after 12am
And I usually download via NNTP via both interfaces simultaneously.

[Paul H]

It is probably part of a trial that Virgin are doing?

[v0id]

Originally Posted by lordy

Does anyone get good torrent performance on their cable connection these days?.

Yes, more often than not, maxing out the download capacity (900 - 1200KB/s), depending on the strength of the torrent of course

[Chris W]

do you see similar patterns with newsgroup downloads or is it just the torrents?

[lordy]

Originally Posted by Chris W

do you see similar patterns with newsgroup downloads or is it just the torrents?

Just torrents , Newsgroups are fine, I'll report back with some more precise observations when I grab my next Linux Distro

[Mick Fisher]

I rarely use torrents, but on the odd occasion that I do, I get just the speeds that I would expect to judging by the size of the swarm.

Of course if anyone was to go for those public torrents, of, lets say, extremely popular but questionable material, that seem to attract simply massive swarms then they should be aware that most of the swarm are likely to be hit and runners with the result that the speeds are usually very slow.

So I am told anyway.

Originally Posted by Paul H

It is probably part of a trial that Virgin are doing?

Is this your answer to everything lately?

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Is this your answer to everything lately?

That is not fair. I get accused in another thread of not helping anybody, and when I do help I get criticised for it. He could be having the problems through Virgin doing trials on his connection like what Alex Brown said they were.

[7@m3 G33k]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Is this your answer to everything lately?

How completely unfair of you to suggest this! What about Paul H's astonishing revelations that Richard Branson is in fact an alien pod person and is planning to suck our brains out through our cable broadband connections?!

Or was the plot of Batman Forever...hmmm... What days it is? What's my name?

[Stuart]

Guys, we are starting to wander a little off topic.

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by 7@m3 G33k

How completely unfair of you to suggest this! What about Paul H's astonishing revelations that Richard Branson is in fact an alien pod person and is planning to suck our brains out through our cable broadband connections?!

Or was the plot of Batman Forever...hmmm... What days it is? What's my name?

[ECW_Original]

Right, after all this bitching and what-not, I feel I have to say my piece..

Why pick on Paul H for? what, cos he speaks the truth and everyone else on here just wont hear a bad word against VM?? god sakes grow up! EVERYONE is entitled to an oppinion, and just because it is not the same as your own, you feel the need to critisise and even in some cases you feel the need to bitch about that person, well that is WRONG!! Just because someone doesn't have the same oppinion as you, that dont make them wrong and you right!!

We all know by now of VM's underhanded tactics & the way they do things without even awknowledging it, as far as the customers go, we are all wrong, it is ALWAYS OUR equipment that is at fault, NOT a problem their end, Im so sick and fed up with it... then you have the blatant lies from them, IMHO, that IS NOT how to run a sucessful business, and the reason they have more customers than they deserve is because of these "attractive, money saving offers" which in reality, the discounted price they are charging is STILL over the top for this subsidised product(s).

Now, as I said, everyone is entitled to their own oppinion, as above you will see mine, but I would not even dream about having a go at someone or bitch about them just because they see things differently than me, so PLEASE treat other users here how you would like to be treater yourselves!

rant over

Back on topic; I only download from torrents in the morning, and it is mostly wrestling related, I see this as LEGAL, as I pay for Sky Sports, but as some may know, some of the shows get aired erarlier in America & Canada, so I grab them earlier so I can get them watched before I have to work, and once they have downloaded, I DO give back to the private community that allowed me to be a member, as I think its only fair!
But on the odd occasion when I download a wrestling torrent after morning, yes it does go slow, even though there are seeders with more than 3MB/s upload speeds (gotta love them other countries ISP's!!) I only get a lowly 300KB/s max, so something is going on there!

[AbyssUnderground]

Whenever I torrent I never seem to get much over 250KB/s on my 4Mbps connection. When the STM comes into play, I don't get much over 120KB/s, so something is being limited the VM end. Its roughly half the connection speed.

[Stuart]

Ok. Seeing as certain people have ignored my polite comment, I'll make it a little more serious. The thread topic is whether VM are throttling bittorrent or not. Discussion of the way other members express their opinion of VM is off topic and irrelevant.

Off topic posts will be dealt with appropriately.

Not that I am aware of try a different torrent client and have you patched your half open connections to 50 that if you have windows xp sp2