Bittorent - bittrickle, more like

[Geebs]

Yeah I know I know, but why is it that my upload speed for torrents is always much faster than my download speed? Any settings I should change, or should I just get use to it?

[4days]

if you've already done the firewall port-forwarding thing and didn't mess with the numbers at all (e.g. by sticking a 1 in front of them), go back and try it now. could be that your isp is limiting the traffic, and changing the ports will get around that.

worked for me anyway.

[prince1000]

what client? try azureus...its java and a beast but lot's of control.

or it's yer isp...

[prince1000]

if you've already done the firewall port-forwarding thing and didn't mess with the numbers at all (e.g. by sticking a 1 in front of them), go back and try it now. could be that your isp is limiting the traffic, and changing the ports will get around that.

worked for me anyway.

firewall souldn't affect outgoing unless you've got 6881-6889 or whatever ports you use restricted. the forwarding is so the swarm can connect to you.

[werldhed]

Could just be the file or the day. I've had days where I wouldn't get over 5 kbps. I'd try again the next day by redownloading the .torrent, and it would go at >100 kbps.

[Geebs]

I know that you only get uploads from your peers if you've already uploaded to them, but I'd always assumed that torrents were managed on an individual basis, rather than the usual filesharing protocol of getting "credit" with other sharers.

[Freakaloin]

Yeah I know I know, but why is it that my upload speed for torrents is always much faster than my download speed? Any settings I should change, or should I just get use to it?

lol...moron alert...i just downloaded a 719 mb file in 20 mintues...

[Grudge]

lots of leechers out there, especially for popular torrents

oh, and "legitimate" files always gives you better down speeds, figure that

[^misantropia^]

I know that you only get uploads from your peers if you've already uploaded to them

That would cause deadlock. In the default bittorrent implementation, a new peer gets triple the priority of other peers in an effort to get it started. Said peer will be choked eventually, unless it starts uploading data itself too.

[seremtan]

Yeah I know I know, but why is it that my upload speed for torrents is always much faster than my download speed? Any settings I should change, or should I just get use to it?

lol...moron alert...i just downloaded a 719 mb file in 20 mintues...

was it 'why we fight' or the 9/11 doc? i got that faster than usual too

btw use utorrent, n00bs

[Freakaloin]

lol..it was why we fight...with utorrent...

[SplishSplash]

You're on a mac?
Then I don't know. I'd say check for UPnP being activated in
1. Your client
2. Your OS
3. Your Router or whatever else sits between you and the internet

Other than that, you should probably just stick to downloads with 500 peers minimum.

[SplishSplash]

I know that you only get uploads from your peers if you've already uploaded to them, but I'd always assumed that torrents were managed on an individual basis, rather than the usual filesharing protocol of getting "credit" with other sharers.

depends on the tracker I think. Empornium for example stops your downloads completely when your up/dl ratio goes below a certain level.

[[xeno]Julios]

also sometimes it takes time to build up to a good speed.

[BlueGene]

Restrict your upload speed otherwise it will saturate your connection and give you bad download speeds. Make it ½ or 1/3rd of your max upload speed. Also make sure to upload after you have downloaded the file, lots of trackers ban ips if they don’t maintain a good ratio. If you have a static ip this could cause that (lots of private trackers nowadays).

Like julios said it takes time to get good speed.