Downloading Software

[MSTRshenanigans]

Torrent speed is limited by the seeders... if you dont have enough seeders = their max upload speeds...

With rapidshare (co-incidentally with hamachi network with other Internode users also) I was maxing my speed.... there is no way you can compare torrent to a direct DL. Especially when you are downloading from Aust sites...

[bozodos]

yeah I realise that but if something has 2000 seeders and 700 peers, then I'd be expecting to get nearly maximum d/l speeds.

[DRD-00F]

Download skinnier chicks... they won't take up all the bandwidth

[R31Nismoid]

well i'd thought i'd had it optimised as best as i can, i have a billion 7300g, best router I've used so far, got any tips ash?

Without looking up the router specs to match your torrent client - Nope

If i get bored i might. What torrent client you using?

Also ensure the latest firmware is on there, often that can make all the difference.

I max my speed out with torrents, i can have 10 people seeding to me.

It's not the number of seeders, it's the swarm speed that matters.

500 people upload @ 1kb/s on one torrent... yet 10 people upload @ 500kb/s on the next - guess which is faster

I can see the same speed via torrent as i can direct download from Aust sites.

Only issue with torrent is it takes 1-5 mins to register and "speed up" once links are created. Usually im running max in under 1min.

[MSTRshenanigans]

You don't always get a large amount of seeds to dls though...

500 x 1 or 10 x 500

I dunno, torrents don't suit the projectw use so its useless to meh =D

Download skinnier chicks... they won't take up all the bandwidth

They might get hungry for some if you have it spare or worse yet they might have a memory leak

[bozodos]

using utorrent, hmm well I remember back in the day having to create a static IP for my pc and manually setting up port forwarding on a linkysys router just to get torrents working properly, surely that's not going to make things any faster in this circumstance!

interesting comment about the firmware, I was under the impression that it wouldn't do much at all!

[R31Nismoid]

Ok 7300g

Max connections you want is around 750 or the router is going to shit itself much above that as it has around 800-1000 connection limit or there abouts.

If using utorrent you need to decide how you are going to download.

1 Torrent at a time - set max connections per torrent to around 650

More than one torrent - divide 650 by the amount of torrents you want to have running

There are some other things you can change, but im assuming you don't have any issues at the moment with drop outs and so on.

If you do, post up. I'll have the fixes for it

[bozodos]

when you say setting max connections to 750, is that on the router itself?

I usually just download one torrent at once, 1.5mb only stretches so far lol

[R31Nismoid]

No, in utorrent settings.

[bozodos]

ah yes makes sense now, was kinda tired then lol, bumped it up to 650 before, didnt make a huuuge difference but will have another look at it