ntl and p2p

hello

Has ntl got any restriction for p2p software? I have ntl 750k and my
emule or bittorrent is very slow, they can barely reach 10kb/s

I tried BitComet for a couple of days recently on my 1 meg PlusNet
connection & although it peaked around 28 kbs for a short time the average
speed was around 18kbs for an ISO. It started off much slower (6 kbs) but
gradually built up speed. I'm not that impressed & I'm going to stick with
binary newsgroups where I can download at 119kbs using News Rover.

The help section in BitComet suggests limiting your upload speed to about
80% of your usual speed in order to improve your downloading ( I limited
mine to 20 kbs). The client needs to send a reply to every downloaded packet
& if the upload capacity is full then it can't send the reply which slows
down the download.



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On 1 Oct 2004 11:17:19 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (taquitto) wrote:

>hello
>
>Has ntl got any restriction for p2p software? I have ntl 750k and my
>emule or bittorrent is very slow, they can barely reach 10kb/s

emule - very rarely get anything approaching a decent d/l speed.

bittorrent - similar, but slightly better (that's no complement).

Kazza lite used to max out my 2Mb ADSL, but it's rubbish now.

Limewire - brilliant. Use emule to find the pro version ;-)
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"taquitto" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) m...
> hello
>
> Has ntl got any restriction for p2p software? I have ntl 750k and my
> emule or bittorrent is very slow, they can barely reach 10kb/s

not familiar with either application - are you able to manually configure
the ports they use? If so, that's the first thing you should try.

On 2/10/04 9:49 am, in article
XYt7d.178908$(E-Mail Removed), "Nick Cleevely"
<postmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>
> "taquitto" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) m...
>> hello
>>
>> Has ntl got any restriction for p2p software? I have ntl 750k and my
>> emule or bittorrent is very slow, they can barely reach 10kb/s
>
> not familiar with either application - are you able to manually configure
> the ports they use? If so, that's the first thing you should try.
>

Agreed, if the OP RTFM for emule for example, your ability to download is
set by your ID level. ID is determined by which ports you set up and use. Do
it right, and you get a High ID, which allows you to access many sources -
get it wrong (or have ports blocked) and your Low ID will result in you not
getting access to High ID sources.

Basically, if you don't make yourself 'highly available' then you don't get
decent access - a good way to stop leeches ...
>

In MsgID<(E-Mail Removed)> within
uk.telecom.broadband, 'Dr Teeth' wrote:

>On 1 Oct 2004 11:17:19 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (taquitto) wrote:
>
>>hello
>>
>>Has ntl got any restriction for p2p software? I have ntl 750k and my
>>emule or bittorrent is very slow, they can barely reach 10kb/s
>
>emule - very rarely get anything approaching a decent d/l speed.
>
>bittorrent - similar, but slightly better (that's no complement).
>
>Kazza lite used to max out my 2Mb ADSL, but it's rubbish now.
>
>Limewire - brilliant. Use emule to find the pro version ;-)

I'd recomend Shareaza, from http://www.shareaza.com

It does Gnutella2, Edonkey, Emule and BitTorrent all from one
interface.

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On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:32:31 +0100, Dave J <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'd recomend Shareaza, from http://www.shareaza.com

Never got it to work at all. Always found loads of hits, could never
d/l anything despite tweaking as per the advice in the fora.
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In MsgID<(E-Mail Removed)> within
uk.telecom.broadband, 'Dr Teeth' wrote:

>On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:32:31 +0100, Dave J <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I'd recomend Shareaza, from http://www.shareaza.com
>
>Never got it to work at all. Always found loads of hits, could never
>d/l anything despite tweaking as per the advice in the fora.

Hmm, I found it needs looking after a little more than the others, but
it seems very effective to me, many many gigabyte have crawled down
the wet piece of string that passes for my internet connection.

The only 'tweakery' I've applied is to follow the 'help' links to
sources of discovery servers, which it needs to sort of boot itself
up, once it's found some good ones it's constantly finding more. Oh,
yeah and to set the 'maximum discovery-server failure count' (or
something similar) in the advanced settings to 500, so it doesn't
delete them when it's running without a net connection (I'm on PSTN
modem only) I then go through and manually kill the ones with a high
fail rate every now and again.

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