[TelstraClear] Utorrent and Telstra 10mb plan? Fast and slow

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Kittychan

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#13972 7-Jun-2007 23:25

Hi all

When I got my internet installed yesterday,,, the next day I used utorrent to download series and it was really fast 200kbs/sec. And at that time my plan was 4mbs.

but now all the suddent I cannot even get 10kbs/sec and it shows a red indicator at the bottom. Does anyone know how to boost this thing up? I am on 10mbs plan.

Thank you

kdn

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#74025 8-Jun-2007 16:51

it all depends on how many people are seeding and how fast their connections are..

In the settings make sure your upload speed is set to 2,048kbt/s or MAX as I think they limit your download speed relative to your upload speed.

Flamer.

Kittychan

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#74033 8-Jun-2007 18:52

Hi there

Sometimes the connection is fine (Green light) and sometimes it appears to have no connection (Red light)... I have tried to forward the port according to the portforward website but no luck....

kdn

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#74036 8-Jun-2007 19:21

if you dont have the port forwarded it will go much slower. this site will tell you if the ports open correctly:

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 (click the proceed button then the file sharing button).

Flamer.

Kittychan

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#74866 15-Jun-2007 21:21

Hi Flamer

For some reasons my torrent speed is fast as a rocket..... I can download around 80-200 and set my upload to 1.... Weird...

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#75040 18-Jun-2007 15:56

I'm on the 4Mbps plan, I regularly get up to about 400kBps on a well seeded torrent. I didn't do anything fancy, maybe I forwarded some ports to my PCs static IP is all.

Kittychan

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#75046 18-Jun-2007 17:35

timmmay: I'm on the 4Mbps plan, I regularly get up to about 400kBps on a well seeded torrent. I didn't do anything fancy, maybe I forwarded some ports to my PCs static IP is all.

Kittychan

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#75047 18-Jun-2007 17:35

timmmay: I'm on the 4Mbps plan, I regularly get up to about 400kBps on a well seeded torrent. I didn't do anything fancy, maybe I forwarded some ports to my PCs static IP is all.

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#75048 18-Jun-2007 17:35

timmmay: I'm on the 4Mbps plan, I regularly get up to about 400kBps on a well seeded torrent. I didn't do anything fancy, maybe I forwarded some ports to my PCs static IP is all.

Hi Timmmay

Do you allow a lot of upload coming in?

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#75050 18-Jun-2007 17:41

Kittychan:
timmmay: I'm on the 4Mbps plan, I regularly get up to about 400kBps on a well seeded torrent. I didn't do anything fancy, maybe I forwarded some ports to my PCs static IP is all.

Hi Timmmay

Do you allow a lot of upload coming in?

I allow at least 50KB/sec to go out. Much beyond 100KBps you don't get much back, but sometimes I run it unlimited to keep my upload/download ratio ok and I get 400KBps down and 200KBps up.

Kittychan

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#75051 18-Jun-2007 17:42

timmmay:
Kittychan:
timmmay: I'm on the 4Mbps plan, I regularly get up to about 400kBps on a well seeded torrent. I didn't do anything fancy, maybe I forwarded some ports to my PCs static IP is all.

Hi Timmmay

Do you allow a lot of upload coming in?

I allow at least 50KB/sec to go out. Much beyond 100KBps you don't get much back, but sometimes I run it unlimited to keep my upload/download ratio ok and I get 400KBps down and 200KBps up.

Man you must be using alot of the data..... umm any advance setup?

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#75052 18-Jun-2007 17:48

Yep it can use a lot of data real quick. No special setup just follow the general setup instructions for bit torrent, including port forwarding if necessary.

kepstar

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#75499 21-Jun-2007 11:57

Hi when I use torrents (utorrent) I limit my upload speed to 1kb/s untill it finished DL then upload 20%-30% at around 10-20kbs other wise it slows down others who are on the net. I would never upload at the speeds you do.
Also what site are you getting your torrents from, if you can get a membership to a private site it would also help speeds, i use I use torrent-damage.net, but it took ages to get an account and a free site xtvi.com.

Hope this helps some way

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#75505 21-Jun-2007 12:50

kepstar: Hi when I use torrents (utorrent) I limit my upload speed to 1kb/s untill it finished DL then upload 20%-30% at around 10-20kbs other wise it slows down others who are on the net. I would never upload at the speeds you do.
Also what site are you getting your torrents from, if you can get a membership to a private site it would also help speeds, i use I use torrent-damage.net, but it took ages to get an account and a free site xtvi.com.

Hope this helps some way

Cheers

The whole idea around bit torrent is you should upload at least the same amount of data you download. If no-one shared then bittorrent wouldn't work, if people don't upload others will stop and the whole system falls over. Give back what you download, it's only fair.

Also the faster I set my upload, the faster my download goes, generally.

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#75588 21-Jun-2007 21:56

Good on ya for uploading 100%.
The private sites don't ask you upload that much, once you have downloaded over 25gig your ratio must be over .50. 50% max.
Also thats just my settings for faster downloads, your upload speed must be a lot faster than mine.

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#75589 21-Jun-2007 21:58

kepstar: Good on ya for uploading 100%.
The private sites don't ask you upload that much, once you have downloaded over 25gig your ratio must be over .50. 50% max.
Also thats just my settings for faster downloads, your upload speed must be a lot faster than mine.

Cheers

Ah ok private sites must be different, but still the more people upload the faster it is for everyone. I have 2mbps up, which is about 200kBps.