hmm might be usenet time again...

 

Okay, help a n00b out here - why is the download so slow? I've used utorrent and bittorrent and I'm running port forwarding, but I'm seeing ridiculously slow download times (I'm on DSL).

It's pretty sad that this is the only way I can watch WRC this season.

 

For Usenet I use astraweb metered because you buy a chunk of bandwidth and it doesn't expire till you use it. It's $25 for 90gig right now, usually you only get 65gig for that price. The last time I bought some I paid $100 for 280gig. They don't count header bandwidth or non binary posting and as I said before your bandwidth never expires until you use it. The retention is ok, they claim 25 days, but it's usually about 2 weeks on the heavy binary groups. Once in a while it slows down a little, but at it's worst I still get over 100KBps.

Right now I have cable and the DSL pro package so things have been interesting. The DSL is starting to **** me off, it was fine since I've had it(which is long enough that I still have a static IP and an alcatel 1000 modem sitting in a box) with very little problems, but about a month ago it started acting up every single night during peak hours. I'd go from 325KBps(about 2.4Mbps) down to about 75KBps, the worst part is that I get a HUGE ping and ferocious packet loss, on the order of 30% loss on some nights. I got the cable service to try out since the DSL was being so crappy, and it slows down a hair during peak hours. I go from about 850KBps to 700KBps, my ping goes up slightly and at it's worst I've seen about 2% packet loss, which is great. As far as web surfing, I'm unable to discern the slowdown on the cable where lately the DSL has been unbearable during peak hours. Thankfully I *****ed to SBC and got credited for the last three months. From what I gather on the DSLreport forums So-Cal and Nor-Cal are both having some serious problems during peak hours, sadly too many people buy it off as normal and just deal with it. More of us need to speak up so they move a little quicker on a resolution.


You have to give time till enough seeds and peers let you connect. Sometimes it can take up to a day before the downloads really start moving, sometimes if you get connected to a decent seeder you'll haul **** from the beginning. Some clients are set to only allow a certain ratio of upload to download.

Oops almost forgot, the largest reason for most people is not having the router/firewall set up right. If you directly connect the computer to the modem this isn't a problem, but if you use a router/firewall or modem with integrated firewall/router you have to forward the ports used for the clients to your machine. The best thing is to have uPnP enabled on the router, if it supports it, and the client app, that way the app will automatically forward the ports it needs. Even with fantastic seeders the best you'll see if about 2/3 of your bandwidth down.

If you need help PM me with what kind of service, equipment, and software you use and I can try to get you straightened out. It took me less than a day to download the latest Suse distro with BT, and that was just under 9 gig

 

SBC is the problem, not the DSL. Get DSLExtreme or sonic.net and you'll be golden.

 

I have 11700' loop length and both of them say I can only get their 1.5M connection. After threatening to leave SBC they let me upgrade to the pro package last year and until december it was great. Even at my length I had a fantastic connection(partially to my home run, I run cat5e shielded from the telco box to my modem), they even offered me the dsl expert plus after looking at my line. My line stats are real good even with the pro, the dslam is only at 11db xmit(max of 18db) and 7db xmit from my end, my modem says based on the line stats I could handle 5800down and 864 up, but the other guys are sticking to the loop length clause.

I might be ditching my DSL after 7 years and sticking with the cable. I've been very impressed with it so far, it hauls some serious butt down, the 768K up is pretty nice too. Cable works really wierd, it bursts for the first few seconds that tapers back to the cap, which is 8M. On a small file like 10meg or so, it will burst to several MBps and just inhale the file in like 3 seconds, it makes web surfing like sitting on the T3 at work, it's wonderful, perfect for teh pr0n

 

For BitTorrent crap I usually just use Azureus on my desktop and BitTornado (in ncurses mode) if I'm running the torrent from my server (100Mb/s, unF unF unF). As far torrenting of WRC events this year, I could arrange to torrent and host them, make them available to certain folks on i-club. The only issue faced is you shrubs giving your username and password to other people.

 

Wow, my threats never got me that. hehe.

My loop is at ~15300FT. and I get 6Mbps down/ 700Kbps up all the time.
I run a mail server/web server/ and have Vonage configured for the 30KBps compression and I don't have any issues.

I used SBC at the last place I lived and switched because they just plain suck ***.

 

BitComet is the BEST... God I love this program

 

Thats amazing you can pull in 6megs at that distance. Though with perfect phone lines and internal wiring (and assuming your on a RT), its physically possible, sbc must have originally thought you were only 10kft out or they would have denied you that speed.

 

Yeah, I am pretty sure I am on an RT cause I have never had sync problems what so ever.