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Slow download speeds?

Posted: August 7th, 2009, 8:45 pm
by TDDance234
I've been trying to download a few torrents and am only getting about 6/kB per second. Anyone have any tips on how to up that? From what I understand, it's average to get anywhere from 200-300 kB per sec.

Re: Slow download speeds?

Posted: August 7th, 2009, 8:52 pm
by flamesbball84
TDDance234 wrote:I've been trying to download a few torrents and am only getting about 6/kB per second. Anyone have any tips on how to up that? From what I understand, it's average to get anywhere from 200-300 kB per sec.
only thing i know you can do to control it is to increase your upload or download speed. it depends on how many other people are sharing (aka seeding) the file. the fewer there are and the slower their upload speed, the slower your download speed will be. it's file sharing, you can't really control much in terms of download speed...

Re: Slow download speeds?

Posted: August 8th, 2009, 6:00 pm
by adam42381
Are you using µTorrent? If so, there are some tweaks you can do to increase your speed. Search YouTube and you'll find videos with step by step instructions. I went from speeds around 75kb/s to 300+kb/s. All the speeds are definitely subject to the amount of seeders/leechers and the time of day. Your speeds should fly late at night.

Re: Slow download speeds?

Posted: August 8th, 2009, 8:40 pm
by Sly Fox
Thieves

8)

Re: Slow download speeds?

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 12:18 am
by adam42381
Sly Fox wrote:Thieves

8)
Maybe we're downloading backups of media that we already own... :typing

Re: Slow download speeds?

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 10:27 am
by flamesbball84
adam42381 wrote:
Sly Fox wrote:Thieves

8)
Maybe we're downloading backups of media that we already own... :typing
or downloading no cd cracks for a game because our disc got damaged and disappeared...