Not seen any action from the torrent cache recently

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#61559 19-May-2010 00:42

Several public torrents have been going at the 3-4kB/sec that they get when coming from actual peers, and I have not seen any connections from the cache at all..

What gives? Slingshot still running it? Anyone else seeing it work on the eztv torrents?

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#331951 19-May-2010 18:38

How do you check? Happily downloaded 2 eztv torrents last night

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#331983 19-May-2010 21:00

Has been fine for me in christchurch, i thought it had been a tad slower lately, but my linux distros have been completing overnight nonetheless.

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#331988 19-May-2010 21:38

The peer is 119.224.something and will deliver stuff fast, the other peers manage only 4-13kB/sec during the peak and the free offpeak times. See a glimmer of acceptable speeds between 11pm and 1am or so, other than that nothing.

I did see it connect and appear in the peer list, and show that it had the 99.7% that it usually has of the file I wanted, but all the transfer was coming from other actual peers at stupidly slow rates. The usual way of making it connect by stopping the torrent, clearing the peer cache and starting it again was not effective when I tried it either.

I am guessing it finally did deliver something since when I woke up there were some shows to watch. At these speeds the free offpeak is only worth $60-70 a month so really makes me rethink sticking with slingshot with the useless onpeak performance. But then the question of what is there to move to that isnt stupid expensive (orcon) or has minimal caps like vodafone.

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#331996 19-May-2010 21:47

richms: The peer is 119.224.something and will deliver stuff fast, the other peers manage only 4-13kB/sec during the peak and the free offpeak times. See a glimmer of acceptable speeds between 11pm and 1am or so, other than that nothing.

I did see it connect and appear in the peer list, and show that it had the 99.7% that it usually has of the file I wanted, but all the transfer was coming from other actual peers at stupidly slow rates. The usual way of making it connect by stopping the torrent, clearing the peer cache and starting it again was not effective when I tried it either.

I am guessing it finally did deliver something since when I woke up there were some shows to watch. At these speeds the free offpeak is only worth $60-70 a month so really makes me rethink sticking with slingshot with the useless onpeak performance. But then the question of what is there to move to that isnt stupid expensive (orcon) or has minimal caps like vodafone.

What i have heard (from an unqualified opinion) was that they dont peer to 100% for to keep it legal - so they stop at ~99.7%

Thats the guts of these slingshot plans, if you are downloading popular, cached content then you can really make use of the plan, but if your geting obscure stuff then the speeds are useless.

Im not sure of the market now but when i decided to go slingshot their 25gb plan (nDSL in particlar) was the cheapest on the market, regardless of the free offpeak

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#332002 19-May-2010 22:16

Yeah, I can see the peer connect and show the 99.7% of it available, and there is interest from utorrent, but nothing seems to happen.

It looks like they are back to their old tricks of shaping the hell out of it after its been active for a while, just disconnected and reconnected PPP and things got up in speed (still not acceptable) and then dropped back to 11kB/sec on torrents. Once i have watched two and a half men I will try some FTP and see what that does.

Considering I am paying a buck a gig I expect it to be at least somewhat non-slow.

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#333194 22-May-2010 01:43

Torrent cache is still working for me.

With regard to eztv - i find once its been up for at least a few hours then its likely to be cached. It needs some NZ Slingshot users to download it slowly before it gets cached.

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#333293 22-May-2010 15:56

It connects and reports 99.7% complete, so I am guessing it either lies or it has it and is just being mean and not putting out.

In either case, Not happy with how things are going, will write up a formal complaint on monday and probably just get their standard BS answers about doing their own speed test.

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#333577 23-May-2010 12:39

richms:
In either case, Not happy with how things are going, will write up a formal complaint on monday and probably just get their standard BS answers about doing their own speed test.

just how do you go about laying a formal compaint when the subject matter is from something like eztv which, as far as i know, is a site for downloading pirated tv content...?

EDIT: actually it was another poster that mentioned eztv...

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#333835 24-May-2010 00:37

TV episodes are a fascinating gray area, especially in the US (they have much stronger fair use laws).

What is legally wrong, which are morally wrong?

- Video taping (old school) a publicly aired show and give it to a friend or co-worker to watch
- Digitally taping a publicly aired show then using a file sharing site to send it to a friend to watch
- Digitally taping a publicly aired show and uploading it to bit torrent to share with many "friends"
- Downloading a tv show from a bit torrent site because it doesn't even screen in NZ and probably never will
- Downloading a tv show from a bit torrent site because it's not going to be shown in NZ for 1-2 years and itunes and hulu are region restricted to the US.
- Using a US based proxy/vpn or US credit card/account to access Hulu and iTunes to get content