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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: random drop in BT speed |
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As of sunday, my bit torrent speed was going smoothly at speeds of 125-450kbs. That was great. Starting Monday, however, it has "dropped". Now my average speed is 15. I have hit highs of 100, but still 15 is average. currently, I am at 0kbs. Before you ask, I have many many seeds on the files I am after. I thought that may have been the issue, so I picked up some hot torrrents. How can I remedy this?
Specifics: Havitnet service Premium
BT program: BitComet |
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The Chewbacca Defense
Joined: 29 May 2004
Location: The ROK and a hard place
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: ... |
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I use Megapass...
But I only get DL's speeds from 100-125kbs, but thats only on a good day......
What settings to do you have.
I use Bit Lord...but im assuming settings would be similar |
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bourquetheman
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: My speed |
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| I also use Mega pass, the most expensive package, forget the name they call it. Anyway I use Bittornado and get speeds on well seeded files (like today's Lost for example) that came in at over 900 kbs, I kid you not. I literally got the whole Lost show in like 5 minutes. Truly awesome! Can't imagine why your speeds just started to go down, sorry..... |
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pdxsteve
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:33 am Post subject: Re: random drop in BT speed |
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| Demonicat wrote: |
As of sunday, my bit torrent speed was going smoothly at speeds of 125-450kbs. That was great. Starting Monday, however, it has "dropped". Now my average speed is 15. I have hit highs of 100, but still 15 is average. currently, I am at 0kbs. Before you ask, I have many many seeds on the files I am after. I thought that may have been the issue, so I picked up some hot torrrents. How can I remedy this?
Specifics: Havitnet service Premium
BT program: BitComet |
Your internet provider might be limiting bandwidth on the port you're using for torrents. Try changing the port number (in your BitComet settings) to some random number (I use port 33265).
Also, some torrent sites and trackers are blocking the BitComet client completely, which limits the number of peers you can connect to. I recommend using Azureus. |
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pdxsteve
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:36 am Post subject: Re: ... |
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| The Chewbacca Defense wrote: |
I use Megapass...
But I only get DL's speeds from 100-125kbs, but thats only on a good day......
What settings to do you have.
I use Bit Lord...but im assuming settings would be similar |
I use Megapass Premium with Azureus and I routinely get DL speeds between 750-900kbps, fast enough to download a 350 MB file in about 5 minutes. Make sure to change the default port in Azureus to something different, and make sure that port is open on your firewall or forwarded in your router. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:39 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not using a firewall actually, would turning one on boost the speed? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| Demonicat wrote: |
| I'm not using a firewall actually, would turning one on boost the speed? |
Can I use that in my signature? 
No, a firewall won't boost your speed.
It will interfere with your torrents if not configured correctly.
However, it's a security feature most people these days would consider to be a neccessity. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| gfeel free to use that as a signature. I am just grasping at straws as my bt has now dropped to 0 |
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pdxsteve
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Demonicat wrote: |
| gfeel free to use that as a signature. I am just grasping at straws as my bt has now dropped to 0 |
1. Use a different BT client. Stop using BitComet and switch to Azureus.
2. Change the port.
3. See your speeds increase. |
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magicwolfman
Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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As the above poster said, change clients. The problem is Bitcomet, it has been banned at many private trackers or public ones that make you maintain a ratio. Bit comet does not accurately send data to the tracker.
Try bittornada, utorrent, etc. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| Yep... I agree with what has been said already. Change your port and try a new client. Azureus is great but if you want a more straight forward app try Utorrent. |
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bellum99
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: don't need to know
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Are you in a heavily populated area? Did you notice that speeds improve at strange times? The area shares a limited amount of bandwidth, so if the area is using a lot of bandwidth then you are left with little. They have it set up so that you have high bandwidth for the first few minutes but prolonged use is dropped to a low priority. They have it set up for web page surfing which needs only a few seconds of speed...BT uses the bandwidth for a long time so they leach it back from you.
You cannot really change this much. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| SHANE02 wrote: |
| Yep... I agree with what has been said already. Change your port and try a new client. Azureus is great but if you want a more straight forward app try Utorrent. |
How much would Azureus or Utorrent slow down the computer? I ask because the old tracker I used was a nightmare at bogging down my computer. I switched to Bit Comet and - on this front anyway - have been happy. |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| utorrent is suppose to use the lowest system resources of any BT client. You can always go with bittornado though. I prefer that one... it is based on bit comet design but grew in a different direction. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:46 am Post subject: |
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yes Utorrent uses the least resources so I heard. It doesnt even install, its just the.exe. I have tried it, but I get better speeds with Azureus. Azureus is fine if you have plenty of ram (it's Java) , but I did have issues with it shutting its self down on earlier builds. Im running the latest 2.4.0.0 with a gig of ram now no worries. Bittorrent + Azureus + Korean hi speed broadband =  |
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