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Question

Im download a 2gb file from BitTorrent but the download speed is only averaging 5kb/s. Im on broadband so shouldnt be in the hundreds?

Answer 1

Another drawback is that BitTorrent file sharers, compared to users of client/server technology, often have little incentive to become seeders after they finish downloading. The result of this is that torrent swarms gradually die out, meaning a lower possibility of obtaining older torrents. Some BitTorrent websites have attempted to address this by recording each user's download and upload ratio for all or just the user to see, as well as the provision of access to older torrent files to people with better ratios. Also, users who have low upload ratios may see slower download speeds until they upload more. This prevents users from leeching, since after a while they become unable to download much faster than 1-10 kB/s on a high-speed connection. Some trackers exempt dial-up users from this policy, because they cannot upload faster than 1-5 kB/s.

Answer 2

It's worth keeping a little perspective. 7.51 GB is a lot of data. 0.1% of 7.51 GB is about 8 megabytes (7.51*1073741824/1000). If you can pull 200Kb/s which is full speed on many broadband connections when doing nothing else, it's still going to take about eleven hours. It's gonna take a while. Spending a week downloading that much data means you're pulling something like 13Kbytes/sec on average. Whether 13Kb/s is good or bad depends upon the peer network serving that file. If you only have a handful of peers and seeds (say total less than ten), I'd say 13Kb/s is better than average for many files, and you must be close to several, and it's more likely than not you're doing about as well as possible. If you've got hundreds of nodes out there serving or peering, you might be able to tweak things to get better performance. However, if all of your peers are slow and/or far away you might not. A couple of things to try: * Set your number of simultaneous downloads and/or connections. Many peer networks have a few hosts which will perform better for you than most, either due to some combination of network proximity or bandwidth capacty. Your best bet is to hope you latch onto those rather than trying to get a lot of peers, which usually has the result of giving only a little bandwidth to each thus putting you at the back of a lot of queues. * Set your download and upload speeds to be the same. The Bit Torrent protocol favors is arranged so that peers uploading material as well as downloading will get more bandwidth in return. As for prioritizing files within a download, I don't recall whether there's a way to do that. However, I've never experienced any benefit from trying to prioritize or limit a download, it often seems to end up taking longer because it constrains the pool of peers sending you material, and gives you less to offer peers in uploads in exchange for more download capacity. That said, Azureus has options to prioritize the first pieces of files as well as prioritizing the most complete files under the "Transfer" options page.

Answer 3

when selecting a torrent file to download, always check the S and L columns (seeds and leechers). This will give you an indication of how fast your download will be. Seeds are how many people have the file and leechers are how many people are downloading the file. If both numbers are very high, you are going to get a better speed than if they were both low numbers. Also if the leechers number is far higher than the seeds number it will also make it slower

Answer 4

Try using µTorrent also known as UTorrent, but u have to add .torrent files manualy searching from the internet.

u can download µTorrent it is a completly free softwar but have to set da settings correctly for beter proformance. u can set it up by refering to guides available in th net

http://torrent-finder.com/ is good site to search & download .torrent files

I have also attached a link to download a patch called "bitlord accelerator patch" to help users of XP SP2 ONLY increase the connections allowed as XP SP2 limits half-opened connections to 10

http://forum2.youceff.com/attachment.php?s=aff0ae319fc94699cad9336c9deb41db&attachmentid=309&d=1119532254

(Big thanks to the person created this patch)

DISCLAIMER: P2P takes NO responsibility for what you download and install onto you PC. You download and install attachments at YOUR own risk - however every effort has been made to make sure attachments are free from viruses or malware.

If u still not satisfied with µTorrent then u can click the following link and find more info using another software called BITLOARD which is also good as µTorrent.

http://forum2.youceff.com/showthread.php?t=3772

Answer 5

The speed depends on the ratio of seeders v leechers, if there's more leechers than seeders the download speed will be slower.

Answer 6

It also depends on number of peers availible and connection speed of the peers.

Answer 7

it doesn't have to be- depends on users who give you these files(file) and on their internet partially

Answer 8

u can have the fastest internet connection in the world ......but.......if the provider is limited ....so r u....gl