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Is there a way of increasing the download speed beyond your upload limit?

"Grumps" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is there a way of increasing the download speed beyond your upload limit?

Yes. You have to limit your upload speed to about 80% of its capacity to
avoid saturating your connection. Your download can then be several times
your upload speed with certain files only. I can get up to 55KB/s down with
an up limit of 20KB/s. It doesn't work with some files though. The latest
beta test version of Bittorrent automatically throttles uploads to 80% but
is unstable on my PC. There are alternative bittorrent clients available
with throttle control but I use the standard BT client in conjunction with
NetLimiter to achieve the same result.

(kim)

"kim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Grumps" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Is there a way of increasing the download speed beyond your upload
limit?
>
> Yes. You have to limit your upload speed to about 80% of its capacity to
> avoid saturating your connection. Your download can then be several times
> your upload speed with certain files only. I can get up to 55KB/s down
with
> an up limit of 20KB/s. It doesn't work with some files though. The latest
> beta test version of Bittorrent automatically throttles uploads to 80% but
> is unstable on my PC. There are alternative bittorrent clients available
> with throttle control but I use the standard BT client in conjunction with
> NetLimiter to achieve the same result.

I've been using Bittorrent and Bitcomet, but have never managed a download
greater than about 30kB/s.
I'm wondering if there is any point upgrading to a 1, 2 or 8MB ADSL. I know
some web d/loads will be faster, and browsing will show an improvement,
but...

"Grumps" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> "Grumps" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> > Is there a way of increasing the download speed beyond your upload
> limit?
>>
>> Yes. You have to limit your upload speed to about 80% of its capacity to
>> avoid saturating your connection. Your download can then be several times
>> your upload speed with certain files only. I can get up to 55KB/s down
> with
>> an up limit of 20KB/s. It doesn't work with some files though. The latest
>> beta test version of Bittorrent automatically throttles uploads to 80%
>> but
>> is unstable on my PC. There are alternative bittorrent clients available
>> with throttle control but I use the standard BT client in conjunction
>> with
>> NetLimiter to achieve the same result.
>
> I've been using Bittorrent and Bitcomet, but have never managed a download
> greater than about 30kB/s.
> I'm wondering if there is any point upgrading to a 1, 2 or 8MB ADSL. I
> know
> some web d/loads will be faster, and browsing will show an improvement,
> but...
>
>

I have a 512 downstream/256 upstream adsl connection and use ABC Bittorrent
Client.

By a process of trial and error i've found that setting an upload maximum of
24KB/s gives me the best download speeds.
A well seeded torrent often downloads at 50KB/s or a little bit more.

Martin.

"Grumps" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "kim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> "Grumps" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> > Is there a way of increasing the download speed beyond your upload
> limit?
>>
>> Yes. You have to limit your upload speed to about 80% of its capacity to
>> avoid saturating your connection. Your download can then be several times
>> your upload speed with certain files only. I can get up to 55KB/s down
> with
>> an up limit of 20KB/s. It doesn't work with some files though. The latest
>> beta test version of Bittorrent automatically throttles uploads to 80%
>> but
>> is unstable on my PC. There are alternative bittorrent clients available
>> with throttle control but I use the standard BT client in conjunction
>> with
>> NetLimiter to achieve the same result.
>
> I've been using Bittorrent and Bitcomet, but have never managed a download
> greater than about 30kB/s.
> I'm wondering if there is any point upgrading to a 1, 2 or 8MB ADSL. I
> know
> some web d/loads will be faster, and browsing will show an improvement,
> but...

My connection is only 256/512k but I still manage 55KB/s from the best
downloads, often the latest episode of a popular TV series.

(kim)

I am on the 1 meg and I can get 116 Kbs download.

Like the other person said throttle the upload to 80% of maximum speed.
(normal I set it at 20 - 25 Kbs)

I use bitcomet and It's the best one I have found after trying many
different ones.


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> >> > Is there a way of increasing the download speed beyond your upload
> > limit?
> >>
> >> Yes. You have to limit your upload speed to about 80% of its capacity
to
> >> avoid saturating your connection. Your download can then be several
times
> >> your upload speed with certain files only. I can get up to 55KB/s down
> > with
> >> an up limit of 20KB/s. It doesn't work with some files though. The
latest
> >> beta test version of Bittorrent automatically throttles uploads to 80%
> >> but
> >> is unstable on my PC. There are alternative bittorrent clients
available
> >> with throttle control but I use the standard BT client in conjunction
> >> with
> >> NetLimiter to achieve the same result.
> >
> > I've been using Bittorrent and Bitcomet, but have never managed a
download
> > greater than about 30kB/s.
> > I'm wondering if there is any point upgrading to a 1, 2 or 8MB ADSL. I
> > know
> > some web d/loads will be faster, and browsing will show an improvement,
> > but...
>
> My connection is only 256/512k but I still manage 55KB/s from the best
> downloads, often the latest episode of a popular TV series.
>
> (kim)
>
>

Grumps wrote:

> I've been using Bittorrent and Bitcomet, but have never managed a download
> greater than about 30kB/s.
> I'm wondering if there is any point upgrading to a 1, 2 or 8MB ADSL.

The only thing I use BitTorrent (actually Azureus) for is Linux CD/DVD
..iso files, so long as I limit uploads to about 20KB/s I can download
over 110KB/s on 1Mb/s ADSL once it gets going ...

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> > >> > Is there a way of increasing the download speed beyond your upload
> > > limit?
> > >>
> > >> Yes. You have to limit your upload speed to about 80% of its capacity
> to
> > >> avoid saturating your connection. Your download can then be several
> times
> > >> your upload speed with certain files only. I can get up to 55KB/s
down
> > > with
> > >> an up limit of 20KB/s. It doesn't work with some files though. The
> latest
> > >> beta test version of Bittorrent automatically throttles uploads to
80%
> > >> but
> > >> is unstable on my PC. There are alternative bittorrent clients
> available
> > >> with throttle control but I use the standard BT client in conjunction
> > >> with
> > >> NetLimiter to achieve the same result.
> > >
> > > I've been using Bittorrent and Bitcomet, but have never managed a
> download
> > > greater than about 30kB/s.
> > > I'm wondering if there is any point upgrading to a 1, 2 or 8MB ADSL. I
> > > know
> > > some web d/loads will be faster, and browsing will show an
improvement,
> > > but...
> >
> > My connection is only 256/512k but I still manage 55KB/s from the best
> > downloads, often the latest episode of a popular TV series.
> >
> > (kim)
> >

> I am on the 1 meg and I can get 116 Kbs download.
>
> Like the other person said throttle the upload to 80% of maximum speed.
> (normal I set it at 20 - 25 Kbs)
>
> I use bitcomet and It's the best one I have found after trying many
> different ones.

Ah, it seems as if it was my own stupidity. I hadn't enabled UPnP on my
router (running BitComet). I'm now getting 56kB/s on a 500k ADSL.

I'm on 2Mb and a few torrents, normally well seeded torrents and normally
from uknova.com come down at 220Kb/s. I have to set my upload to 15kb/s
otherwise it severely effects my download.

If you are usuing a firewall try opening the bitorrent ports, I believe them
to be 6881-6999.

Dan

Grumps wrote:
> Is there a way of increasing the download speed beyond your upload limit?

Personally, I don't see the point in being able to download any faster
then you're able to upload, because I always seed my torrents so that
I've shared 100+% of what I've downloaded.
Downloading fast is great, but you're still going to be waiting for your
torrents to seed (and I hope you DO seed your torrents!)
I still like my 1 megabit down / 256kbps up, if only for downloading
large files via HTTP and FTP.

Anton