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- crgnetworks, on 10/12/2007, -5/+742001 called, it wants it's article back.
- bwizard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60yah! and maybe people configuring there ports correctly might help as well!
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -10/+51"2001 called, it wants it's article back."
The contraction form of "it is" called, it wants its apostrophe back.
[Grammar Nazi mode: off] - Alisic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43This submission gets the 'no *****' award of the day.
- lament, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33yup.. and actually you only need 1 port.
and for god's sake, people, stop using port 6881. ISPs throttle traffic through those lower ports. use something over 50,000.
@baris: no, he's talking about the ignorant BT users that don't realize that in order to be connectable to download/upload faster, you have to forward (open) a port on your router for BT traffic to flow. and again, you only need 1 port - you don't need a range of ports.
http://www.portforward.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30If it weren't for BitTorrent's ultra-reliability, I'd hate it. But I know when I start a download, it will be done by morning without worrying about CRC errors or the net connection dropping out mid-download. And for me, reliability takes priority.
Slow-- yeah, usually. I usually average about 50k/sec on any given torrent. But hey, I'm getting everything for free so I have nothing to complain about. At least I know it will work when it's done. - trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Problem is with some connections if your upload rate is too high you will suffer great download speed lost. The automatic upload rate in azuerus is nice, it makes the most out of your upload without hurting your download speed. I hope other clients will also add this feature.
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25I think an easier solution would to stop being an ***** and turn up your upload rate. Jerks.
- sampowers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Also what about the fact that baseline broadband service has abysmal upstream? 128? 256? Simply shameful.
Especially cable modems seem to have fairly limited upstream, but as time goes on, DSL/Cable marketing campaigns omit this information more and more. - ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The fact is...some people can't "up" their upload rate because in some countries (like my own...Australia) their broadband services SUCK with bandwidth limits...and to download, as well as upload...it just can't be done without getting charged an arm and leg for the bandwidth.
- Somniis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10That totally defeats the point of using BT. :)
It can still be bought, even if downloaded, ya know. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10So, I guess you deserve the old thumbs down!
- firemaker103, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You're probably using a torrent without much seeders. Try joining a private tracker for better speeds
- myshoeshurt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Isn't this obvious? I mean, this is the whole concept of bit-torrent. Weird.
- SystmBetatester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yet another reason why we need easily available and affordable fiberoptics on the us site
- demodawid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I have a 1Mbps/128Kbps connection. It's really hard for me to keep the ratio close to 1:1, plus I've never been able to download faster than 30Kb/s.
I don't complain, though. - petroK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6also... the XP SP2 tcp cap (tcpip.sys) hurts download speeds. You can patch it to allow more connections.
No wonder public torrents are slow... all these leechers with firewalled computers... - sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I leave my upload capped a little bit below my overall upload speed, because otherwise all traffic though the connection is slowed almost to a halt. If I did not cap my upload speed, I wouldn't be able to use the internet while uploading, and wouldn't upload at all, which is definitely worse then uploading slowly.
- Somniis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you attempt to uncap it, be weary that you may get caught. Cable companies will know. (especially if it is well above your dl/up limits)
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I have 10mb down and 384k up. So to even use the internet at full speed on other online things I need to put the upload on 20k/s, and even then it seems to slow everything else down.
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It is easier to sell a 6Mb/0.5Mb pipe than a 3.25/3.25. People generally do not think about upload speed - they want to be able to download a couple of MB a second, and asymetrically dividing the pipe is a cheap way of doing that. To offer a 6/6 pipe, you would need to charge nearly as much as a 12:1.5 or something.
But I believe it will level. Most users would not notice the difference between a 54Mb wireless connection and a 100MB wired LAN, or between a 100MB LAN and a gigabit LAN. Of course they will notice if they are transferring DVD ISO images across it, but in copying a word document or sending an email or a job to the printer, there is little measurable difference.
So at some time, the bang for the buck just wont be worthwhile in increasing the download speed, and upload speed may become important to people. (I would expect to be able to stream HD live before this happens though). - kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@WaterDragon
Tell me how that goes? Have fun being blacklisted because you will be caught almost immediately. - DamnMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4hey guys yeah sorry I'm late I'm Captain Obvious I didn't have time to change did i miss anything?
- atrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think people are focusing to much on bit torrent.
The internet is becoming more interactive, yet the ISP's couldn't give a crap. Bittorrent is one aspect which is effected, but as the author mentions, what about even more legitimate stuff like uploading to myspace, facebook, flickr, or youtube? Most average uploads suck, even if the download rates are reasonable. The ISP's are unwilling to conform to these trends, which is quite disappointing.
Sure, a couple of ISPs are throttling traffic: but if you look at it through their point of view, they are reducing firstly illegal stuff that could later involve them, and secondly its getting rid of the 2 way high-bandwidth requirements. Unfortunately for them, these things are now becoming more common and legitimate, so the only way to compete with this new demand is to keep the rates low and hope it goes away. We can only hope they grow up and eventually provide synchronous rates. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Sometime in the past year, there was an article on digg about getting a motorola modemsurfer cable modem that had different firmware, so it removed the cap put on many cable modems by ISPs.
It was a Russian company, in California i think, and the modem was pretty inexpensive.
It also showed how to hack a cable modem and remove the capped up speed....but the simplest was to get one of theirs with the special firmware already in it.
Here's one of the links saved from that article:
http://docsis.sourceforge.net/
and another link:
http://www.cable-modems.org/articles/uncapping/ - parker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i was told (in korean and my korean sucks) that i've got 100Mbps up/down. i generally see about 10Mbps up/down in practice. still very fast and 1:1.
rock on south korea, the land of 5Mbps hsdpa cell phone service.
edit: i forgot to mention that it only costs me about $30/month. (USD) - hadimirza, on 03/26/2008, -6/+8I've been using bittorrent clients like Azureus for 3 years, and I have never had higher speeds than 60kb/s, even with a 6MB connection. I've tried different routers and port forwarding and everything else but nothing works...well, the article is good though. dugg.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Next up: "Gas in car key to making the wheels go around"
- LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How big is YOUR e-penis?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well you can always install TorrentFlux on your site if you own one. I download torrents to my website and then they should finish seeding in like 1 hour, then i will download the files off my site.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3And here's the main link I was looking for ... to get uncapped cable modems.
http://www.tcniso.net/index.php - CyberWindCloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2....so i need to set the upload speed higher to have faster download speed when using the BitTorrent?
- bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9Have you tried changing your torrent client? Everyone should be using utorrent in my opinion, it's a great torrent client with an amazingly low footprint.
And yes, please don't be jerks and stop capping your upload rates; if you're going to cap it make sure you're putting out least 25% of what your pulling down. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2^^^Well, DUH!
- IneffablePolk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wait, so you mean that if someone increases their upload speed I'll be able to download from them faster? My mind has just been blown.
- elitexero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oh! And all this time I thought setting my max upload to 1 was helping it speed up
Oh well :D - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Faster Uploads Key to Improving BitTorrent Efficiency?
Breaking news: Breathing helps you live! - LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And if you download it off bittorrent, it's still a gimped copy of the game as you can't play it online (the best part) unless you have a CD Key. Most people who download games and want to play online still buy a real copy, don't worry.
- Ookware, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I generally download around 40kB/s though have had 300kB/s and as low as 2kB/s, either way my ratio only climbs as I upload 30-40kB/s 24/7. When a download finishes it seeds, even if I'm not downloading Azureus is generally running just seeding whatever it can this keeps my ratio high and I don't have to worry about it. Should I need my upload capacity for Flikr or something I can pause or limit Azureus, upload, and then go back to how it was.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2His e-penis is only 5b :/
Mine is 12TB...not! /borat - mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You really need this article to understand that?
You give me something, I give you something. You give more, you get more.
With low upload you'll only get bandwidth no one else needs (and with few seeds on public trackers it's not much).
Yea, and ***** cable companies and their 32KB up.
I need my coffee. Now. - renegadeafk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah I can download torrents up to 500kb/s but my upload speed only goes up to 40kb/s which starts throttling my download
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I feel everyone's pain. Having come home to AT&T DSL after sitting on an OC-12 line at college, I can certainly attest to the difference a synchronous connection makes. Going back to DSL is, as far as BT performance goes, like going back to dial-up. It certainly helps that I'm running on fiber at college, but I can recall many a torrent where I'd be going at 2+MB/sec up and down. The crazy part is that, the largest torrents aside (Daily Show, Colbert Report, etc...anything with thousands of seeders), I generally accounted for anywhere from 25-50% or more of the swarm speed. Since I've gotten home for Christmas, I've been lucky to break 50kb/sec up or down, irregardless of health of the torrent. Crazy...
- Jarodd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You know, some people, even when hit with the obvious stick of truth, don't see it.
- parker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i feel like bragging...
with good content or multiple torrents running at once i can get a solid 2MB/s down and 2MB/s up with no loss in web surfing performance.
South Korea! whoo hoo! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Occasionally I find a torrent with a few nice dependable seeds, and I can max out my 15mbit connection (close to 2 MB/s) but that is few and far between. Research giganews.com and you will be fine ;-)
- FuzzyCat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
...here, have a copy of 'The Hound Of the Baskervilles' then maybe you'd learn how to spell Sherlock... - Matt88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2One of the things choking speeds is the fact that countries like Australia have ADSL not DSL so up load load speed is usually only 1/4 of down load speed. eg. Downloads at 512kbs would typically upload at 128kbs.
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Download for minutes. Seed for weeks.
- efesar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you are behind some kind of router/firewall which support UPNP, plus you use WinXP, then you can try BitComet as it automatically opens up your Windows Firewall and the necessary ports on your UPNP router/firewall. My DSL service uses an ActionTec modem, and it works quite well every time. Your mileage may vary.
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