Torrent speeds nowhere near actual speed capacity. Is it traffic shaping?

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Kiwi1971

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#142977 30-Mar-2014 18:48

When I was on Telstra I used to get speeds of up to 8Mbps using bittorrent but ever since I have been on VF I have never gone above 1.8Mbps regardlesss of the number connected peers/seeds
I have played with the settings and increased the number of connections/upload slots etc but nothing will get it above that 1.8mbps top speed.

1.8mbps is top combined total regardless of the number of torrents running.

When I do a speed test, I show 12mbps down and circa 0.7Mbps to 1Mbps up but still torrents top out at 1.8. Not slow, slow but not the speeds I am supposed to be getting.

Any suggestions on how to improve this or is this something at the ISP limiting speeds?

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Coil

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#1015568 30-Mar-2014 18:57

I max my line torrenting. I would start looking at the torrent your downloading. Have you opened the ports and made sure the client has the same port and not a random one each time? Check with www.canyouseeme.org

Umm im not too sure if you realized but a 12Mbp/s throughput rate will only get you 1.2 MBp/s...... Are you getting the BIG B and the small b around the right way. On your torrent client it will download in BYTES. Speed tests are in BITS.

Looks like ADSL, Is it ADSL?

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#1015577 30-Mar-2014 19:06

1.8MBps mega bytes per second = 14.4 Mbps mega bits per second

Nothing wrong there