bt question

[losCHUNK]

[00:20] peter popper: uploading at 20k
[00:20] peter popper: downloading at 1
[00:20] peter popper: fucking joke
[00:20] losCHUNK: cap your upload
[00:20] losCHUNK: maxing your up destroys your down
[00:20] peter popper: lies

right or wrong ?

[Bacon]

What client?

[losCHUNK]

shadows iirc, all i know is when i capped my up on my client to like 3/4ths i got blazing speeds

[^misantropia^]

Both, depending on your connection. True: lots of uploading can kill your download speed (data has to pass through the same wire). False: BT works by trading pieces of a file in your queue with other users. You don't trade, you don't get any.

[shaft]

not by that much.
true if he maxed his upload he woudlent be able to download at his dl cap. But he woudl still get ok speeds.

[losCHUNK]

any ideas on a solution ?

he forwarded his ports on his router and still getting shit ?

[shaft]

coudl be the torrent...let it run for a few hours..it might pick up. ive had a few that start out that slow. public torrents suck.

[MaCaBr3]

Well if he got ADSL, and he's downloading at 90% upload capacity he will only get 10% of his downstream capacity.

On the other hand, capping ur upload speed on ur torrent, in my case azureus, won't interfear with the my download speed.

[§ìgñå]

coudl be the torrent...let it run for a few hours..it might pick up. ive had a few that start out that slow. public torrents suck.

you were easy.

[shaft]

peers favour other peers that upload to them. When you start leeching a new torrent you have nothing to offer to other peers and they will tend to ignore you. This makes the starts slow, in particular if, by change, the peers you are connected to include few or no seeders. The download speed should increase as soon as you have some pieces to share.

[MaCaBr3]

any ideas on a solution ?

he forwarded his ports on his router and still getting shit ?

Check the color of his torrent too. Must be green. Ofcourse.

[MaCaBr3]

Good for me I signed up on some torrent sites on time, with mindboggling download speed. New releases=400Kb/sec

[losCHUNK]

its green, which is why i raised an eye brow when he told me

[losCHUNK]

i dont think its a torrent prob either as the router was put in a few days ago and its been the same with all different ones

[shaft]

The upload speed affects the download speed in essentially two ways:

• Bittorrent peers tend to favour those other peers that upload to them. This means that if A and B are leeching the same torrent and A is sending data to B at high speed then B will try to reciprocate. So due to this effect high upload speeds lead to high download speeds.
• Due to the way TCP works, when A is downloading something from B it has to keep telling B that it received the data sent to him. (These are called acknowledgements - ACKs -, a sort of "got it!" messages). If A fails to do this then B will stop sending data and wait. If A is uploading at full speed there may be no bandwidth left for the ACKs and they will be delayed. So due to this effect excessively high upload speeds lead to low download speeds.

The full effect is a combination of the two. The upload should be kept as high as possible while allowing the ACKs to get through without delay. A good thumb rule is keeping the upload at about 80% of the theoretical upload speed. You will have to fine tune yours to find out what works best for you.

[shaft]

coudl be the torrent...let it run for a few hours..it might pick up. ive had a few that start out that slow. public torrents suck.

you were easy.

think so? :icon32:

[AmIdYfReAk]

check your ports.... ports dont effect outgoing but they do effect incomming.

[shaft]

if your router is uPnP azerues will open the port automatically