How fast do your torrents download?

I currently have bitcomet which at the highest reached 250KB/sec. However, on average it runs around 50KB/sec. My friend told me it should be running at over 1000KB/sec which sounds promising, but obviously it means that I need to make some adjustments.

I just installed utorrent and performed it's speed check which ran at 38KB/sec.

So how fast do your torrents download?

 

depends on your upload/download ratio...i heard that your download rate will hurt if you set download to unlimited =/
Max i got on utorrent was 106kbps

 

I can usually get up 100 kb/s on average but you have to be a bit patient, max that ive been able to maintain for more then a minute is like 600 kb/s

I usually notice the fastest speeds in the middle of the download, I assume after you slowly download bits of the file you can share more and you can download more. Sometimes it just a really good torrent where the file just FLIES into your computer, sometimes it just stinks even though you see like 2000 seeds.

Almost seems like its a matter of luck.

P.S. I set my download speed to unlimited =P, I don't really notice any performance difference from when i don't

 

If it's a good torrent, with fast seeders and peers, i usually get my top speed (~1000kB/s). You should set your upload speed to about 80% of your real upload speed (u: 128 kB/s, i've set it to 90-100 kB/s).
And for it to run at 1000kB/s your connection have to bee that fast (usually advertised as 8Mbit).

 

There are many issues that determine your download speed. Your upload/download ratio, the quality of your connection to the tracker server, and also, more importantly, you internet connection speed. As its measured is Kbs/s, you max download speed is your Internet connection speed divided bt 8. This is simply because there are 8 bits in a byte. So, my Internet connection speed is 512 Kilo Bytes per second, divide that by 8, and my max download speed is 64 Kb/s.

One of the most common issues in using Torrents is that you have not opened up your ports if you're using a Router.

http://portforward.com/

And finally, your speed also depends on the quality of the tracker. In general, the more popular a torrent file, the faster the file will download. This is because, when using a Torrent network, you upload at the same time you download. So if more people are downloading from the tracker server, then you will download of more people, giving more incoming connections to your computer, and you'll get the file faster.

Hope This Helps,
Mayur

 

I usually get between 80kb/sec no matter what -- and high peaks of 450kb/sec during the middle and end of the torrent. I set up my UP at 45-50% of the capacety.

 

I've gotten up to around 600 on BitLord.

The U of Wa CS department recently released their improved version of Azereus. You can grab it at bittyrant.cs.washington.edu It's supposed to reward those that upload more. Haven't tried it though so can't comment on how well it works.

 

It totally depends on the torrent; I max out my connection on some (500KBps aka 4mbps), while others crawl along at 10 to 40ish. I'd say on the average torrent I get about 80ish.

 

Iv gotten 2mb downloads on BitComet before. BitComet is leecher friendly . There are hacked Utorrents out there floating around that just flat out cheat the system though. I usually download with an upload cap of 10kbps and keep the upload going until my DL/UL is 1:1.

 

I average around 400-500 Kb/s, but that is with one particular tracker/site that I use 95% of the time. The other sites and trackers are much much less.

 

im on a 6mbps connection and using bittorrent, i get anywhere between 150-250kb/s on average with my highest ever being a little over 600kb/s.

 

After several hours of tweaking I determined Azereus is the faster downloader, for me, with the same torrent, used over uTorrent.

ex: Downloading certain movie @ same tracker and AZ is consistantly 75kb+ faster.

 

The highest I have reached consistently for over 5 mins is 1000kb/s. I have a 16 mb line.

 

Is your lin a garantueed 16 Mbit line, or is it up to 16 Mbit? because i get (on good torrents) 950+ kB/s on my 8 Mbit line, while your should be in the neighborhood of 2000 kB/s

 

I don't think torrents are an accurate way to determine the proper download speeds of a card/ISP service.

Look at dslreports.

 

ive gotten 3.5 MB down
and 550 KB up both at constant rates for a pretty good while.

 

I feel sad, I got a crappy connection, the basic. But, the router isn't tweaked. so the highest I've seen was 80kb/s. But, that takes all the bandwidth.

It sucks, back in Canada I had a good connection. My landlady won't upgrade. *sigh*

 

oops typo sorry, meant a 6mbit line

 

It depends mostly on the Torrent file. How many are seeding etc: etc:

Bittorrent does me well.

Hooked on a Ethernet cable works better than Wifi IMO. I use my Wifi the most tho.

I also noticed that downloading two or more torrents increases the speed VS downloading only one file. I can't explain it, but I notice that all the time.

 

I think mines an up to 16mb. But I live 300 m away from the exchange and whenever I do a speed test I'm hitting 13-15 mb.

The fastest I have hit is 1000, theoretically at least I think I should be able to get 2000 but it depends on the people that I'm downloading off of. I use uTorrent and now whenever I use it I select the peers option for the bottom half of the screen and see how fast I'm downloading from each person I'm connected to. Whenever I get 800+ from anyone it's usually a seeder and I'm going to assume that they haven't limited their upload speed.

Does the ratio matter in uTorrent? My ratio is roughly 0.35. I think I heard that the ratio matters in Azureus, so that may be a factor in the download speeds that people get.

 

I use both wifi and an ethernet cable depending on whether I want a cable running across wherever I happen to be at the time. I did take a look at the speeds I get when on either one of them and I seem to get similar speeds on either.

That said, I was getting very different results when doing a speed check (dslreports). I used to get about a third or a fourth on wireless of what I would get on my cable. I used a program called TCP Optimizer and that sorted thatout for me and now I get the same results on either wireless or cabled, so maybe that has something to do with it.

 

TCP Optimizer?? Hmmm I check it out. Thanks

 

What ratio? if you mean uploadspeed ratio, then yes it's important, but i'm gueesong you mean the one on the torrent itself. If it's that one, it's got nothing to do with speed. However, trackers that needs you to be registered, usually also demand that you have a good upload ratio, meaning that you upload as much or more than you download. The ratio shown is your upload ratio, and in those cases you want it to be at least 1.00, preferebly more though.

 

yeah, I mean the torrent ratio. My actual upload speed according to the speedtests that I have done is 700kbs.

 

The city I live in Still uses Copper Wires from the '80s

So the max I can DSL speed I can get is a rather slow 512Kb/s

 

My download speeds abysmally low. The absolute max I got was 700kps - a spike for about 1 sec according to RXTX. My torrent downloads are about 150 kps (not individually, the sum of all the torrents).

 

Wow!! 995 kb/s in Wi-Fi for the past lost episode.

 

Port Forwarding.... if u dont Forward your ports then u ll get low speeds...

I get full 375 kb/s as per my plan on my Torrents.

 

My port is detected as open on uTorrent (I forwarded my port) and I still got 10kb/s. My ISP shucks beyond belief and I pay almost US$100/month for it.

 

I usually get near top speeds. I have to swap programs and ports every few weeks to dodge the ISP's throttling.

 

My friend told me his fastest speeds were 2-3 gb/s, but he is a bit of a tech genius. My fastest were 700kb/s, I probably could have had faster but my upload speeds were set really low.

 

I have a 1MBPS down 256KBPS up connection. That translates to around 100-128kbps download and 25-35kbps upload.

 

I use lot of ISP dodging techniques to get maximum speed...usually download 7-8 GB per nite.

 

speed depends alot on the seeders, their connection as well as yours. i just average 100kbps

 

I've been average 180KB/s, which is slow on my connection. I finally figured out the problem: some Windows update reset my copy of tcpip.sys back to 10 half-open connections. After set it back to the max of 65536, I was back to 1500KB/s

 

And what are they?

 

Probaly encryption, changing ports, scheduling torrenting during off-peak hours, etc.

 

Talk about resurrecting an old thread...

I max out my connection (20 Mbit = 2.4 MB/s) on the trackers I use the most.

 

Depends on the torrent, but I mostly download newer files [episodes ] so it's either really fast [140~150KBps] because there are still a lot of seeders, or it's really slow [anywhere from 20 to 100 KBps] because the leechers greatly outnumber the seeders.

I use uTorrent btw.

PS: Wow, you guys really set your upload speeds really low. I don't stop seeding until the up:down ratio is at 5, although sometimes even more because I leave my laptop at home to download while I'm at school.

 

down 715KBps / up 35KBps (6mbit/384kbps)

 

When I was at college, my download speed once hit 1500kbps, it usually hovers around 500kbps-1000kbps. Here at how I get 100kbps average.

 

I say you should update to uTorrent 1.7 or even use the 1.8 beta instead of using the old 1.6.

 

Bollocks! Unless he is lWith leeching of his business connexion, no ISP on earth propose this kind of speed, if I follow the speed/8 rule that would means that hi has a 18gb/s connexion. No.

Here are my speeds:
Anime or tv shows eps, linux distro: ~500-650 kbps
Anime packs (or 10s of GB downloads): ~130-200kbps
Everything else(low seeder number): 30-100kbps