do torrents always take this long?

[M1TCH]

first time I've used it and dont know much about them, guess its something to do with seeds and peers? currently seeds = 14(34) and peers = 50(364)

what do they mean?

and why am I only getting about 20kB/s cos the ETA is 8-10 hours

 

[The Hoff]

Seeds/Hosts = People with the complete file, that are able to send it to the hive.
Peers/Leechers = People downloading the file, currently that dont have 100%.

Basically the better the ratio between Seeds/Peers the greater the speed, therefore 100 seeds / 3 peers will fly, where as 2 seeds / 100 peers will drag.

If you find a good one it should max out your line, not uncommon for me to get 600~kb/s on a good torrent.

Also worth checking your settings though. Client wise i'd heartily recommend uTorrent (far and away the best there is atm), and to use an irregular port setting in preferences (eg. not 6800, try 45252 or something equally random).

Google a "torrent guide" for more info.

 

[M1TCH]

cheers ozzyo.

I'm using standalone uTorrent cos I've downloaded it before but never used it, that was good luck then.

The port is 5 random digits so that should be ok then.

Just down to the poor ratio, I'm used to rapidshare where you can have your file straight away lol, its only 667mb's too so annoying that its gonna take 10 hours.

Oh well I'm 3.9% there

 

[The Big Yin]

Limit the upspeed will help to upload it quicker too

 

[Tiger]

what isp you with? sounds like its being throttled to 20k/sec like me, im with pipex btw (the worst isp on the planet)

 

[M1TCH]

ahh I remember reading that thread.

and guess what I'm with Toucan...the sister company of Pipex grrr.

seems like my internet as a whole is slow tonight on all sites, is that connected?

wtf do they do it?

 

[MOFO]

whats the best sites?

i use mininova,pirate bay...... anyother good ones, i got downloading to 9000kbs and up loading to 10kbs, getting 400kbs average, never higher the 500kbs though,

 

[The Hoff]

Why on earth is your download set to 9000kb/s? If your on a 8MB MAXDSL line, your liable to get 5mb/s at best, therefore set it to 500/600kb/s.

Another point, with torrents your upload rate directl affects your download rate, basically you want to set both up and down rates to 90% of your total throughput. The faster you upload, the faster you download, thats how torrent is designed.



http://www.torrentspy.com
http://www.mininova.org
http://piratebay.org
http://www.torrentz.com (Torrent search engine)
http://www.btmon.com
http://snarf-it.org
http://www.isohunt.com
http://www.meganova.org/
http://www.torrentreactor.to/
http://www.torrentscan.com (Torrent search engine)
http://www.bitenova.nl/index.html
http://www.torrentportal.com/
http://www.torrenttyphoon.com/
http://www.torrentbox.com/
http://www.yotoshi.com/
http://torrents.to/
http://filelist.org/
http://www.filemp3.org/

 

[M1TCH]

using pirate bay..

Tiger I just got 35.9kB/s wooooooooo :rasp:

p.s. still doing your mixes mate, got any new ones out?

 

[Tiger]

im gonna do one 2morrow mate, been busy gathering up some nice tunes, ill post it as soon as its done ;-)

 

[dk]

Why on earth is your download set to 9000kb/s? If your on a 8MB MAXDSL line, your liable to get 5mb/s at best, therefore set it to 500/600kb/s.

Another point, with torrents your upload rate directl affects your download rate, basically you want to set both up and down rates to 90% of your total throughput. The faster you upload, the faster you download, thats how torrent is designed.



http://www.torrentspy.com
http://www.mininova.org
http://piratebay.org
http://www.torrentz.com (Torrent search engine)
http://www.btmon.com
http://snarf-it.org
http://www.isohunt.com
http://www.meganova.org/
http://www.torrentreactor.to/
http://www.torrentscan.com (Torrent search engine)
http://www.bitenova.nl/index.html
http://www.torrentportal.com/
http://www.torrenttyphoon.com/
http://www.torrentbox.com/
http://www.yotoshi.com/
http://torrents.to/
http://filelist.org/
http://www.filemp3.org/

problem is that if you set your upload too high, like 90% your web browsing will suffer hard as you have no upload bandwidth available and your connectio will seem dog slow, i keep my upload to around 15Kb/s on a 512Kb/s upload speed line and that seems to work well and i seem to upload enough on my torrents.

 

[M1TCH]

0 seeds... GREAT!

 

[wozzaa]

If you have your upload quite high depending on your connection you will notice downloads suffer as well. i keep mine set to 20 - 25kb/s and it'll max my download out. But i also use a private torrent group.

If you can though enable encryption. This should speed up your downloads if your isp is throttling torrents.

 

[The Hoff]

problem is that if you set your upload too high, like 90% your web browsing will suffer hard as you have no upload bandwidth available and your connectio will seem dog slow, i keep my upload to around 15Kb/s on a 512Kb/s upload speed line and that seems to work well and i seem to upload enough on my torrents.

Depends what your habits are, i tend to leave stuff overnight to download, but it's dead easy to kick it back some if you can't browse. Again it's a 'guide' line, so you may want to step it back to 80%, but my point being capping your upload will hinder your download speed, and equally running 100% or more of your upload throughput is equally bad.

 

[M1TCH]

lol only 21 hours to go yipee

 

[dk]

problem is that if you set your upload too high, like 90% your web browsing will suffer hard as you have no upload bandwidth available and your connectio will seem dog slow, i keep my upload to around 15Kb/s on a 512Kb/s upload speed line and that seems to work well and i seem to upload enough on my torrents.

Depends what your habits are, i tend to leave stuff overnight to download, but it's dead easy to kick it back some if you can't browse. Again it's a 'guide' line, so you may want to step it back to 80%, but my point being capping your upload will hinder your download speed, and equally running 100% or more of your upload throughput is equally bad.

tbh, i have never noticed it hinder my downloads, i am moving away from torrents though, new groups are the way forward

 

[Day]

I've been d'l at around 300 kB/s all evening.

Change ISP mate

 

[Tiger]

who you with mate?

 

[MRBILLYUK]

Bit tornado for me as my client . Used it for years . Also best site imo is :

http://araditracker.com/

Always my first port of call before the usual mininova , isohunt etc ...... best quality films but if you don't seed they will kick you off after a while .

 

[Day]

who you with mate?

http://www.ukfsn.org/



.

 

[wozzaa]

For those of you with dodgy ISP's turn encryption on.

It will let you speak to clients who had it enabled thus speeding up downloads, it also changes the way your isp sees your downloads and thus they cant limit it. Hence faster downloads.

You want to pick RC4 encryption if you can and keep legacy support depends on the client how you do this. In Azureus its in

Options > connection > transport encryption

You tick the box for require encrypted transport, then you choose allow non encrypted outgoing and incoming.

If your unsure how to do it for your client check the FAQ on the clients main website.

 

[M1TCH]

just woke up and theres 3 mins to go wooooo

 

[Tiger]

For those of you with dodgy ISP's turn encryption on.

It will let you speak to clients who had it enabled thus speeding up downloads, it also changes the way your isp sees your downloads and thus they cant limit it. Hence faster downloads.

You want to pick RC4 encryption if you can and keep legacy support depends on the client how you do this. In Azureus its in

Options > connection > transport encryption

You tick the box for require encrypted transport, then you choose allow non encrypted outgoing and incoming.

If your unsure how to do it for your client check the FAQ on the clients main website.

none of the encryption on any client works for me

 

[M1TCH]

tiger, do pipex email you any warnings for using it cos i've already had one for going over their fair usage allowance one night and got put on shared bandwidth for a week and monitored.

 

[The Hoff]

hhaha Pipex sounds like a bunch of tards these days, they USED (2-3 years ago) to be a good ISP, along with Zen (who still are) and Plus Net (who also suck anus).

Get yourselves on Newnet, heartily recommended.