Um does anybody know why when i download useing BitTorrent it goes at 2-20 kbs, but when i download from a site it goes at about 200kbs. (oh and i have cable)

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2003

Answers

The speed at which you can download off of bit torrent is directly related to the speed at which ur uploading at, but i dont think thats what the problem is. Bit torrent is like any other p2p program. Other factors such as the speed of the other persons computer, their internet connection speed, etc, all can inhibit the speed at which your upload is.

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2003

That's cause the speed varies directly with your upload and the seed count of the Torrent. BitTorrent is basically made for fansubbers to be able to distrubute their releases in a less bandwidth consuming fashion. Generally with a popular series, as soon as it is put on the site, their server will get swamped by people trying to get at the ep. Often times this means that the ep. has to be broken into 10 or more smaller parts in order for the fansubber's site to stay under it's transfer limit.

You can download super fast from http cause the sender (if you would) has already done their part. They put it onto the http and all you have to do is your part (download it). Since you're going straight from an http and there is nothing to inhibit your d/l speed, the d/l can go as fast as your connection allows. Bit Torrent will inhibit your d/l slightly, but for a good reason.

Bit Torrent counts on that "swamp" or d/l. Whenever you d/l a torrent, you contribute a little of your bandwidth to help other people's download and your d/l go faster. 50 ppl d/l the same torrent at the same time from tracker A will generally get a faster d/l speed than 5 people downloading the same torrent (from tracker A) off of tracker B at the same time.

Before I moved and lost my 1.5 mbit connection, I was able to get speeds of 100k+ off of Bit Torrent on new releases (like Naruto for ex.). Too bad I have only a 384kbit down now (that means the fastest I usually get is around 30- 40k)

So, you have two options :

1. Just wait out your slow d/ls...assuming you want the files badly, and try to stick to heavily seeded files.

2. Don't use Bit Torrent, which in itself is a bad suggestion, as the more people using it means the better d/l speeds everyone gets.

And let this be a msg to all you Bit Torrent users:

LEAVE YOUR WINDOWS OPEN AFTER YOU FINISH D/L!!!

Before you go to sleep at nite, just quickly boot up the torrents again and let them run overnite. Help out the Bit Torrent community. It's simple and easy to do, and costs you nothing (unless you're on a bad dial-up plan)

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2003

dont tel that me the programm is aleas runnig if il download naruto from toriyama world and this all the night and there 5 h left if i close it!

-- Anonymous, June 18, 2003

well tbh i cant understand bit torrent. lots of people say its really good and fast... but on my only 150k cable modem i get a max download of 3kbps :/ mostly on 0. what is this about ?? i can upload at about 10kbps most of the time.

i took my pc over my m8s house last week and he has 600k and still only downloads of 8 - 12kbps. this is silly. ok now in my download there aren't many seeders left only 10 but thats coz my file has been downloading so long! plz help there must be something i can do :/ (i have 85% of 2fast 2furious and its agonising waiting)

-- Anonymous, June 25, 2003