Lee said:
Thats the one I refered to as "standard no frills attached" app that people were uploading from me at about 20 times the speed as I was downloading... the dl/ul ratio looked something like... 1.5/20
paul2-0-0-2 said:
..five words... Macintosh user...not Windows user.
Xie said:
Other then the overall low speeds (could be due to not forwarding ports) the ratio looks normal (sometimes the ratio changes as you get more of the file that others need or they get what you need). Are you on dialup? If so I would say all is well
I have the relevant port range forwarding on. It doesn't make a whole heap of different. I'm on an ADSL connection. Upload speed-wise its right for my connection, but download speedwise I'm equal to or worse than my mate who does still use dialup and Bit T'
PseudoKiller said:
yeah it sux when you cant d/l your warez fast enough .... oh I mean pr0n ... oh I mean linux distro ... yeah linux distro is what I mean ...
Yes it does suck not being able to d/l warez fast enough. Why share if you're going to keep me waiting
Pr0n is the route of all evil and linux makes me giggle to much to use it
Straylight said:
I find that the number of concurrent uploads you allow can greatly affect your download speed. There is a setting for this in Azureus, and simply increasing/decreasing this by 1 can have fairly dramatic results!
I run on a cable modem with 1.5mb dl/256kb upload, and my simultaneous upload setting is 4, which seems on average to be best. This did however take quite some experimentation to discover, as a change doesn't have immediate affect. Also don't have too many files seeding as this will reduce your upload cappacity for the files you're still trying to get! It follows that having multiple files downloading at the same time doesn't seem to be a good idea, as each one creates its own p2p network, and as your download ability is pretty much based on your ability to upload on a given connection (unless connected to a seed), then by spreading your bandwith too thin, you simply reduce the efficiency of each connection. Make sence?
The first part of your post is networking obvious, increased traffic load over a medium naturally by defualt will cause congestion and slow up data transfer
Settings-wise whenever I use a P2P app / network, I never spread my bandwidth too thin as you put it; I don't normally go above 4 downloads / 4 uploads.
Unwonted said:
What happened to bittorrent is what happened to Kazaa...selfish masses of people started capping their uploads and not sharing at least 100%. They don't understand where their downloads come from. That's why I turned to usenet.
Thats very true. Its also what happened massively on Haxial's KDX too.
I only cap my uploads becuase:
1. I see no fairness in someone(s) using up my bandwidth, uploading at 20K or more, while I'm sitting here like a fool getting around 1.5K. Thats why I cap at around 10K
2. Out of ...darest I say curtosy since I share my connection with family. (And no, my brother wasn't on trying to dowload 20 gigs worth of "Hwat Monkey Lovin'
)
GoNz0 said:
SP2 is gunna fek up torrent speeds as it caps the amount of connections per app unless a 3rd party tool is used, and yeh sounds like u is firewalled or behind a router for speeds that low..
Thats nice, though since once again I point out that I am a Mac user and as such this is irrelevent to me. Argueably yes, it may affect P2P apps if said restrictions are in place, but as history tells me, I doubt it will impact me greatly
GoNz0 said:
lol yeh i missed the mac part
hhmmm maybes someone needs to lay off the lollypops for a while ay?
*points to title of Forum section*
______
That is all for now