On Friday 10 August 2007 13:25, Gadi Cohen wrote: > Did you cap the upload speed at under 10 Kb? Or are you saying that you Yes. BTW, as an experiment, I removed the cap and uploads reached about 20 (slightly more than is "theoretically" possible.
I also notice that a cap of 10 in rtorrent resulted in uploads of 10. In ktorrent, the same cap resulted in much lower upload speeds (usually about 5) - despite the fact that I seemed to get better download speeds in ktorrent (but that's only my gut feeling - not really measured). > of this is the slow upload speed of 16K/sec. If your settings are > correct and you're connecting to popular torrents, you will ALWAYS reach > your maximum upload speed. If you're not it probably means you have > problematic settings. I suspect the torrents I'm trying to get are not that popular and that's the reason I'm not complaining about slow downloads - it's a fact of life ;-) > Don't forget that the reason why torrents are so effective is because > the files are divided into tiny pieces and exchanged with LOTS of other > hosts. With 4 big and popular torrents, and depending on your settings, > you could for example have 400 connections open all transfering data... > and even tho each connection may only be transferring a tiny bit of > data, all together its too much work for the router which is used to > lots of data on just one connection (that it needs to keep track of, > rewrite headers for NAT, etc...) Again, with less popular torrents, that shouldn't be a problem. With only 4 torrents and I'd guess less than 10 connections on each . . . > As for checking, I just noticed when downloading torrents with my old > router than even pinging the router become abnormally slow, sometimes I > couldn't log in via HTTP anymore... but I guess every router will that's exactly what I saw, but that's not an exact measurment. > Did they notice that the Internet was slow or that the computer was > slow? The former would be a result of overloading your connection, the Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. The kids have there own computers, so resources would not be relevant. They complain about SLOW internet when I use ktorrent (and now rtorrent). > P.S. With popular torrents on a 1.5mbps connection, you should be able > to get up to about 160K/sec or so... On the VERY rare occaision that I go for a popular torrent, I have seen that, but again, on what I've been downloading, I rarely go over 10 or 20. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
