I'm not sure if this is a TelstraClear issue, or a PC issue but I thought I'd ask other forum members to see if they find a similar limit. Note that what I'm saying below is not at all a complaint about the service I'm getting.

I'm on the 10Mbit/80GB cable plan. I have solid 9000+kbit speed test results so my connection is good.

If I download a well-seeded torrent (say, 3000+ peers), and I have solid connections to maybe 300 of them, the fastest download speed I've ever seen is 300KB/sec (with an average of maybe 100KB/sec) in over 12 months of use with Azureus. I'm not running via a router.

Somewhat disappointed with that, I signed up for newsgroups access (which has all the content I'm after anyway, particularly 1080i stuff), and now I hit 750-980KB/sec for every download. I download off some USA newsgroups servers over 10 concurrent connections. I don't know if it's possible to hit those speeds with just one connection.

I would have figured that bittorrent would max out my incoming bandwidth, but it never seemed to come close. Assuming there's no traffic shaping going on, has anyone else on TelstraClear 10Mbit managed to see high download speeds (relative to your capacity) with a torrent? I thought perhaps it was just my PC since that many peer connections does stress out my A64.

Cheers