I normally get lower than 60kB/s, usually getting anywhere from 15kB/s to 30kB/s.
It seems very low and torrents take days to download. Are these speeds normal?
2007-05-14 12:15:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I have no firewall. I operate on my ISPs router through a dumb switch.
My ISP shouldn't be blocking any ports.
2007-05-14 13:15:24 · update #1
No such thing as "normal" BT speed. It varies on the seed and leech bandwidth available, how many of them available, and how many of them you can handshake and negotiate with. It also depends on how local settings, how many simultaneous torrents, how many global connections, how many upstream/downstream, and so on. It's impossible to say.
2007-05-14 13:02:12 · answer #1 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BitTorrent is really hard to set up correctly (port forward on router, limit upload, etc) The main limiting factor after those issues is how healthy the torrent is.
I've maxed out my internet connection on some torrents and gotten 10kB/s on others. To get a good speed test try downloading the Ubuntu torrent, that's where I've seen the highest speeds. If that one is still slow, then you have a problem and need to check that you can your firewall set up correctly.
2007-05-14 12:31:57 · answer #2 · answered by kennethfinnegan2007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you give more details:
What client? what OS? What kind of internet connection do you have? Do you have a router set up?
I have 3Mbps cable internet and i sometimes get torrent speeds in the 300KB/s range. But usually around 100KB/s for well populated torrents using azureus with port forwarding on my router. With less popular torrents i get anywhere from 1-30 KB/s
2007-05-14 12:39:44 · answer #3 · answered by jc_nyc01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋