Are torrent speeds fine on Airtel Xstream Broadband?

[vishalrao]

@vishalrao use utorrent with all settings maxed out for best speed. Tried with multiple torrents with good seeders and even set upload speed to max and port forwarding as well.

Still low speed with single torrent. Though with multiple torrents i get full speed parallelly. So it is airtel which is limiting the speed

Try qbittorrent program also...

 

[Rickysin]

Sure will try that client too.

 

[yash5666]

I get 8-9MBPS on my 100 Mbps line without VPN. At one time initially I got around 13-14 MPBS. But still happy with those speeds.

I have recently switched to airtel Xstream fiber but not getting speed more than 4-5 MBps with 100 mbps plan even on good torrents, I verified the torrent with my friend and he is getting 8-9 MBps so I guess no issue with the torrent.. other than torrent downloads I am getting 13-14 MBps so the connection is fine. Do you know any solution to this?

 

[Rickysin]

Airtel throttles it. Even ubuntu torrent only reach till 3 mbps on 200 mbps connection

 

[lateman]

@Rickysin try the torrent at the bottom of this page (Slackware 14.2 x86_64 DVD ISO (Includes everything except for the source code..... that one )

Here are my findings (on Wifi with fast.com showing 100mbps) :
The linked slackware torrent: the full 12-14 MBPS
Latest Ubuntu torrent from official website: 3-5 MBPS
Well seeded public movie torrent: 1 MBPS but randomly jumps to 3-4 MBPS when it feels like.

@vishalrao what do you think?

 

[Tejas01]

@yash5666 I have only tried what is mentioned here
Are torrent speeds fine on Airtel Xstream Broadband? | Airtel Xstream Broadband
I have tried on Qbit torr but results were more or less the same.
As mentioned by Rickysin, Airtel would seem to be throttling the speeds on torr's.
Only thing now left is to try on lan cable.

 

[vishalrao]

I have recently switched to airtel Xstream fiber but not getting speed more than 4-5 MBps with 100 mbps plan even on good torrents, I verified the torrent with my friend and he is getting 8-9 MBps so I guess no issue with the torrent.. other than torrent downloads I am getting 13-14 MBps so the connection is fine. Do you know any solution to this?

Perennial question... are you testing on wifi or ethernet???

Same questions as in earlier posts... try qbittorrent tool and try increasing the number of connections per xxxxx settings...

One new thought came to my mind is that router device cannot handle large number of connections... so actually try the reverse... which means REDUCE the number of connections settings in your qbittorrent options?

 

[vishalrao]

@vishalrao what do you think?

Looks like some sort of bottleneck or throttling on Airtel, whether intentional or not, who knows!

I hope this is not a new trend to throttle traffic...

So far on my BSNL 300 mbps connection I get low speeds to international servers with single connection (around 100 mbps or less) but if I use download manager or torrent I get full speeds.

 

[vishalrao]

BTW I tried the Slackware torrent - getting full speeds. Also tried the ubuntu 20.04.2 torrent also getting full speeds here (BSNL).