<!--QuoteBegin--Silver Fox+Sep 30 2003, 10:46 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Silver Fox @ Sep 30 2003, 10:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It says "The more you share the faster you download."
Bull ****. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> They said that? How the heck is that even possible? It's fast because the dedication is to ONE file. It should say, "The more people who download file "X", the faster "X" will download for everyone.
Is it always slow no matter what file/server you use? Usually relatively new files are the fastest.
Open up your ports too... unfortunately a lot of people won't connect to you if you're behind firewalls, etc.. I do believe the ports are in the TCP 6881-6999 range.
well the thing is.. people leech.. they download things then they dont share... it is like there is a loyalty amonsgt filesharers i hav left seeds open for weeks before now.. p[urely cos somebody WAS DLing it.. i got a thing which switches it off if nobody wants it for 4 days....
share and share alike then you wont get this problem!
DY357LXPlaying since day 1. Still can't Comm.EnglandJoin Date: 2002-10-27Member: 1651Members, Constellation
BitTorrent has been pretty "average" for me. Usually speeds reach 45-50 KB/s but very rarely more.
According to <a href='http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/' target='_blank'>http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/</a> the more "seeds" and people downloading, the better your speeds will be.
I got the Return Of The King trailer this morning at a nice speed but demo's and the UT2K4 trailer took a fair bit longer. Check through the "FileRush" FAQ and see if there's anything useful.
TalesinOur own little well of hateJoin Date: 2002-11-08Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
Bah. BT is slow enough to be frozen, no matter if I'm downloading old or new stuff. It eats my upstream bandwidth to the point where it's nearly impossible to browse (much less mod) at my normal rate of speed, but I only get anywhere from 1/10 to 1/2 my upload speed. Which is NOT happy on 1.5/128 ADSL. All that extra down-pipe.. wasted...
Personally, I just go for eMule Plus. All the benefits of BT, with TONS more speed and people sharing (as all they have to do is open the program, instead of leaving a torrent running). Not to mention upstream and downstream caps that are even semi-sane. The only down-side is that you need to wait in a queue for each source. The up side is, you're waiting in a thousand queues at once, of varying lengths... and it does NOT need to get the next sequential segment. It just grabs whatever is available of the file you want whenever it becomes available. No bottlenecks except occasionally at the END of a file, if there are three or four chunks that everyone needs. And when someone gets them, the others auto-orient to their queue as well to lighten the load from the original source(s).
In short, I *loathe* BitTorrent. It was a good idea, but flawed due to human nature.
<!--QuoteBegin--Talesin+Oct 1 2003, 12:04 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Oct 1 2003, 12:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Bah. BT is slow enough to be frozen, no matter if I'm downloading old or new stuff. It eats my upstream bandwidth to the point where it's nearly impossible to browse (much less mod) at my normal rate of speed, but I only get anywhere from 1/10 to 1/2 my upload speed. Which is NOT happy on 1.5/128 ADSL. All that extra down-pipe.. wasted...
Personally, I just go for eMule Plus. All the benefits of BT, with TONS more speed and people sharing (as all they have to do is open the program, instead of leaving a torrent running). Not to mention upstream and downstream caps that are even semi-sane. The only down-side is that you need to wait in a queue for each source. The up side is, you're waiting in a thousand queues at once, of varying lengths... and it does NOT need to get the next sequential segment. It just grabs whatever is available of the file you want whenever it becomes available. No bottlenecks except occasionally at the END of a file, if there are three or four chunks that everyone needs. And when someone gets them, the others auto-orient to their queue as well to lighten the load from the original source(s).
In short, I *loathe* BitTorrent. It was a good idea, but flawed due to human nature. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> i have never gotten any sort of decent D/L speed off the eDonkey network, and I rarely got anymore then 5k/s with Emule and around 50k/s on the newer Edonkey clients.
BT is just faster, you have to try a few different clients for best results. As the official one is lacking many features
<a href='http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/' target='_blank'>http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/</a> By far the best.
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Never topped out over 7k and I had my sharing uncapped.
It says "The more you share the faster you download."
Bull ****.
Bull ****. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
They said that? How the heck is that even possible? It's fast because the dedication is to ONE file. It should say, "The more people who download file "X", the faster "X" will download for everyone.
Is it always slow no matter what file/server you use? Usually relatively new files are the fastest.
I do believe the ports are in the TCP 6881-6999 range.
Usually it goes really fast the first days a popular file is torrented, and is amazingly slow on an unwanted file.
share and share alike then you wont get this problem!
Usually speeds reach 45-50 KB/s but very rarely more.
According to <a href='http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/' target='_blank'>http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/</a> the more "seeds" and people downloading, the better your speeds will be.
I got the Return Of The King trailer this morning at a nice speed but demo's
and the UT2K4 trailer took a fair bit longer.
Check through the "FileRush" FAQ and see if there's anything useful.
Personally, I just go for eMule Plus. All the benefits of BT, with TONS more speed and people sharing (as all they have to do is open the program, instead of leaving a torrent running). Not to mention upstream and downstream caps that are even semi-sane. The only down-side is that you need to wait in a queue for each source. The up side is, you're waiting in a thousand queues at once, of varying lengths... and it does NOT need to get the next sequential segment. It just grabs whatever is available of the file you want whenever it becomes available. No bottlenecks except occasionally at the END of a file, if there are three or four chunks that everyone needs. And when someone gets them, the others auto-orient to their queue as well to lighten the load from the original source(s).
In short, I *loathe* BitTorrent. It was a good idea, but flawed due to human nature.
Personally, I just go for eMule Plus. All the benefits of BT, with TONS more speed and people sharing (as all they have to do is open the program, instead of leaving a torrent running). Not to mention upstream and downstream caps that are even semi-sane. The only down-side is that you need to wait in a queue for each source. The up side is, you're waiting in a thousand queues at once, of varying lengths... and it does NOT need to get the next sequential segment. It just grabs whatever is available of the file you want whenever it becomes available. No bottlenecks except occasionally at the END of a file, if there are three or four chunks that everyone needs. And when someone gets them, the others auto-orient to their queue as well to lighten the load from the original source(s).
In short, I *loathe* BitTorrent. It was a good idea, but flawed due to human nature. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i have never gotten any sort of decent D/L speed off the eDonkey network, and I rarely got anymore then 5k/s with Emule and around 50k/s on the newer Edonkey clients.
BT is just faster, you have to try a few different clients for best results. As the official one is lacking many features
<a href='http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/' target='_blank'>http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/</a> By far the best.
<a href='http://ptc.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>http://ptc.sourceforge.net/</a>
<a href='http://bt.degreez.net/' target='_blank'>http://bt.degreez.net/</a>
EDIT: And I always seed files... once they are finished