Slow slow slow slow!!!?

Question

hi i have adsl 24 mb and i use a modem named zyxel.. my network adaptor is realtek RTL8139/810x Family fast ethernet NIC version 5.653.710.2006..i use bitcomet to download stuff but the speed is only up to 100 Kb..whats the problem? is it something wrong with my network adaptor..iv visited som sites for internet speed testing and my speed was around 4 mb there..whats wrong?

Answer 1

You do not have a grasp of how Torrents work... Torrents rely on how many people are out there seeding that same file on your same tracker and how many connections they allow. What this means is that you and i could have the same set of files. I may have a upload as fast as your download. If 50 people are connected to me at the same time, you will not get my full upload. If I only allow 30 people to connect but there is 50 trying, they get in line. When one person is done getting a part of the set from me they disconnect and the next person gets that bit. You are technically connected but not getting anything.

Plus another bottleneck of Torrents is the tracker it self... It may not be allowing the full throughput to come to you or not directing you to the machines that have enough bandwidth to spare. Give it time. The longer you are stable on the torrent the more likely you will get a fast part. It all comes in spurts do to how Torrent works.

Torrents are not like downloading off of a server. When you get a file off of the server, you get one file. The whole time you are getting the one file. With Torrents, the file is split in any number of chunks. You are only getting the one chunk at a time from one person. You may get several chucks at the same time from several other people. It all depends on the people up loading. The more people seeding the torrent, the faster it goes.

Also, ditch bitcomet... Get uTorrent.

Answer 2

I am pretty sure you do not have a 24mbps connection, those are available but are VERY expensive (more than $100 a month). So I am assuming you have either a 2.4 mbps connection or a 4 mbps connection, at 2.4mbps you will recieve speeds at 230-250 KB/s, on a 4mbps connection you should get around 400KB/s. I myself have a 3 mbps connection myself and have speeds upto 325KB/s (thats my fastest never higher and lowest 300KB/s, I'm under Bell Canada's Sympatico High Speed). If you truly have a 24mbps connection then you should be receiving around 2400 KB/s to 2800KB/s (2.4 MB/s to 2.8 MB/s). If the site says 4 mbps, then you have a serious problem with your connection (if your under a REAL 24 mbps connection), I recommend calling your ISP and figuring out what happened (I had speeds of 56KB/s while I was paying for a 5 mbps connection, so I called them and they found out I was feeding off the mainframe from the next city causing a massive slowdown, plus they gave me a line connection of 512 kbps, After I tokd them they then put me on a High Speed Jumper which increased my speed upto 325KB/s, with a line set at 3mbps down and 800 kbps up. SO once again if you TRULY have a 24 mbps connection then call your ISP, they WILL fix it for you. And as for Bitcomet, your speed depends on the speed of your peers and seeds (also the # of peers and seeds). Even if you have a 100 mbps connection and have 1 seed and 2 peers with each of them under a Dial-up connection, you wont recieve any higher speed than 3 KB/s. Now it works the other way too, lets say you have a 1 mbps connection, and you have 10000 seeds and 1000 peers (It is possible!!!) Then you will most likely recieve 100 KB/s always. So for general connection call your ISP and for Torrents it depends on your seeds and peers. I am pretty sure there is no problem with your NIC so just follow my suggestions you will definetly get a improvement in speeds.

Answer 3

Speeds of 100KB per second download, equates to a 800Kbps line speed, Which is less than 1/24th of your line speed.

The possible factors, 1 is your 24 MB line is contended with 50 other people. This could explain the 4MB on the speed test.

In the case of 100KB download, it is proably the destination network limiting the connection to only 100KB per person.

Answer 4

Try something like www.speakeasy.net and run a speed test. This is your typical network speed. downloads can depend a lot on the server that you are downloading the files from. If the server that you are getting files from is on a slow network, or if a lot of people are hitting that same server & getting files at the same time, it will be slow.

GL.

Answer 5

i'v never heard of this bitcomit thing, that could be your problem, it might have a setting on it so it doesn't use all your bandwidth. also some sites are just slower that others.
i use
www.speakeasy.net/speedtest
to test my connection.
and last, it is impossible to have a 24 mb internet connection with dsl. a max of 8 some times 10 can be reached. mayby you meant 2.4 mb.

Answer 6

Try downloading files from other servers.
At times servers from where you are download files face bottleneck problems themselves.