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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#1015545 30-Mar-2014 18:48

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#1015564 30-Mar-2014 18:55

have you opened your ports? i recall when TimA forgot to do this, and had rather low speeds.

since opening the hatches for his torrent client, hes getting far more "reasonable" performance.

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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

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#1015580 30-Mar-2014 19:12

TimA: 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?

ADSL 2 I have a a green tick on the connection in uTorrent.
Top speed 1.8MB/s with a big B according to uTorrent but you are right as the speed test says 12.56Mb/s with a little b. Still on Telstra I was hitting 8MB in uTorrent unless the old version of uTorrent at the time was showing Mbps not MBps. But it was definitely a lot faster so I am sure it was MBps.

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#1015581 30-Mar-2014 19:14

Kiwi1971:
TimA: 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?

ADSL 2 I have a a green tick on the connection in uTorrent.
Top speed 1.8MB/s with a big B according to uTorrent but you are right as the speed test says 12.56Mb/s with a little b. Still on Telstra I was hitting 8MB in uTorrent unless the old version of uTorrent at the time was showing Mbps not MBps. But it was definitely a lot faster so I am sure it was MBps.

Utorrent has never showed Bits unless you set it yourself.
Those speeds are excellent for ADSL2+. I would be satisfied with that.

8MBp/s is physically impossible on ADSL. Were you on cable? Did you move house?

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#1015583 30-Mar-2014 19:17

8MB/s would need about a 64Mbit throughput, connection..

1.8MB/s on adsl is almost perfect, and if your getting that fast, likely vdsl would be possible too.

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#1015586 30-Mar-2014 19:19

No issue here

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#1015656 30-Mar-2014 20:28

TimA:
Kiwi1971:

Utorrent has never showed Bits unless you set it yourself.
Those speeds are excellent for ADSL2+. I would be satisfied with that.

8MBp/s is physically impossible on ADSL. Were you on cable? Did you move house?

Yes it was cable and I moved.
Seems to be a uTorrent display difference between then and now.

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#1015658 30-Mar-2014 20:31

dude you switched from a Ferrari to a Lada! I hope the car dealer told you the difference!

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#1015660 30-Mar-2014 20:34

Cable connections will have a significantly higher speed than a standard ADSL service.

Cable connections are not available in every location and if you are in a Cable serviced area VF would have definitely gone this route.

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#1015661 30-Mar-2014 20:34

Cable 50Mbp/s vs 15Mbp/s ADSL. Slight difference.

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#1015665 30-Mar-2014 20:44

joker97: dude you switched from a Ferrari to a Lada! I hope the car dealer told you the difference!

Seems like it. Lol.
Since moving from my old flat on Telstra, I have swapped between Telecom & Vodafone with no appreciable difference in speed, just a much bigger data cap and lower cost on VF.

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#1015668 30-Mar-2014 20:50

Kiwi1971:
joker97: dude you switched from a Ferrari to a Lada! I hope the car dealer told you the difference!

Seems like it. Lol.
Since moving from my old flat on Telstra, I have swapped between Telecom & Vodafone with no appreciable difference in speed, just a much bigger data cap and lower cost on VF.

No ISP can go faster than what the line is capable of

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#1016550 1-Apr-2014 13:28

That's a shell vs mobil issue :)

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