Matt
Gone playing Dragon Age Origins
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
| New method of choice....
Torrents are now almost my exclusive method of file transfer. I like the idea of everyone sharing their bandwidth.
It's hard to donate to every project I feel is worthy so by my allowing twice the upload total as the download total of the torrent before I close it out, I feel like I am giving something back. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| said by Matt  :
Torrents are now almost my exclusive method of file transfer. I like the idea of everyone sharing their bandwidth.
It's hard to donate to every project I feel is worthy so by my allowing twice the upload total as the download total of the torrent before I close it out, I feel like I am giving something back.
BT is my 'last choice' due to its S L O W download speed. if theres something i want and cant get it off news server or IRC and i still want it bad enough i'll do the BT thing but only as last resort.
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SilWil
@aol.com | BT is only slow for the impatient, the incredibly stupid and the people with low bandwidth. Which category do you fall under? |
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wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD | reply to dvd536
I've found that my BT transfers go way up if I forward port 6881 from my router to the BT'ing PC. Also, they tend to start out slow, and speed up as the transfer progresses. |
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Googled
Yay, I have FIOS
join:2001-08-13
Orchard Park, NY
 ·VoicePulse
| reply to dvd536
said by dvd536 :
BT is my 'last choice' due to its S L O W download speed. if theres something i want and cant get it off news server or IRC and i still want it bad enough i'll do the BT thing but only as last resort.
Your download speed with BT is directly related to your upload speed. If your upload speed is limited to 0 or some other low number your download speed will suck as well.
I think that nicely explains why BT doesn't even work over my satellite "broadband" connection.
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DirecWay DW3000 DRS, SatMex 5 970 gateway 42?, P3-533/256 MB, Host 2000 SP4 w/ICS,Squid Proxy,TreeWalk DNS; shared to 1*XP, 1*2000, 1*Debian Linux, 802.11b enabled |
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macmouse
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join:2002-05-30
Saratoga, CA
| Another thing that is an speed killer is *NAT* (firewall/routers). Without port forewording turned on, your bandwidth goes down the drain. Mainly because, most people are behind NAT's and thus, can only connect out (not receive connections in). So, the people with an "real" ip (or port-forewording through their firewall) receive that extra bandwidth because they can receive incoming connections. |
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