Strange Thing I Noticed While Downloading Torrents

[mystery_inc18]

hmmmm actually i meant that only, god knows why i wrote the opposite waise i dwld bout 18-21 GB and upload bout 23-25 GB pm.but now i'm starting to get bored of dwldin stuff ......its been like 6-7 months of continuous HEAVY dwlds and my comp's been runnin like 16-20 hrs a day......sometimes more even(with the exception of exam times when my comp hardly runs for an hr or so )

 

[AmbarD]

Dunno how much i DL......cos u see this is my 2nd month with unlimited DL connection.......Still my average shud be between 13-16gb PM

 

[Crazysah]

Private trackers give better speeds than public ones.I don't think the place matter like if it is a torrent from india or not. Seeders matter tha most.

 

[Sushubh]

seeders sitting on your LAN would give you faster speeds. pings matter. distance matter. as simple as that.

 

[boyof82]

QUOTE(Sushubh @ Jan 15 2007, 09:06 PM) [snapback]75313[/snapback]
seeders sitting on your LAN would give you faster speeds. pings matter. distance matter. as simple as that.[/b]

The moderator is right...even when the torrents on public trackers have good number of seeders, the download speed is slow...What really matters is that how many seeders are at the closest distance

 

[zewarrior]

QUOTE(Ashim @ Jan 15 2007, 10:43 PM) [snapback]75336[/snapback]
The moderator is right...even when the torrents on public trackers have good number of seeders, the download speed is slow...What really matters is that how many seeders are at the closest distance[/b]

There is a major issue which everyone here seems to have missed. First of all both seeds and peers will upload. Seeders/peers on public trackers do seed but 90% of them limit their upload to a very low speed since ratio is not an issue on these trackers. Hence you get bad speeds on these. Whereas seeders/peers on private trackers generally upload at max so as to get their ratios in order before the torrent gets fewer and fewer peers which would result in no uploads and hence a lower ratio.

As for seeds/peers on your LAN segment - Has anyone setup an FTP or a webserver on his pc and asked someone in his LAN segment to download of it? I'd bet you would get the same speeds i.e. 21 kBps. If you get 60 kBps then Airtel has f**ked up. Do let me know.

 

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[mystery_inc18]

transfer on lan are much faster than 21kBps.......it depends on factors like the current traffic on the lan but certainly not the speed of the internet conn.

 

[zewarrior]

QUOTE(mystery_inc18 @ Jan 18 2007, 12:03 AM) [snapback]75712[/snapback]
transfer on lan are much faster than 21kBps.......it depends on factors like the current traffic on the lan but certainly not the speed of the internet conn.[/b]

Before replying why dont you read this again -
"As for seeds/peers on your LAN segment - Has anyone setup an FTP or a webserver on his pc and asked someone in his LAN segment to download of it? I'd bet you would get the same speeds i.e. 21 kBps. If you get 60 kBps then Airtel has f**ked up. Do let me know"

It would be nice if you actually try it out first before giving me your comments.

 

[mystery_inc18]

ohk i misinterpreted it the last time.............but i did that coz i thought u were replying to shusubh's post---seeders sitting on your LAN would give you faster speeds. pings matter. distance matter. as simple as that.[/b]
and i think he was talkin bout seeders who r present on ur LAN................not connected to u thru ftp.

when u dwld something frm an ftp server set up by one of us(airtel users) the dwld speed wud depend on the u/l speed of the server...which wud be sumwhere round 21-27kBps(256kbps conn).....to which i agree but this is not a case of lan transfer.

 

[zewarrior]

Dude...users in the same LAN wont get more than 21-27 kBps even if I setup a local tracker and they download stuff of my disk, same case for FTP/Webserver/DC++ etc. I do wish we get full line speeds on our LAN which would be really usefull as we could form some sort of download club.