On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:47 +1300 Reg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess my only questions now are more general ones about speeds. If a > person supposedly has a 256kilo bits per second connection, why does it only > ever do at most 30 kbs off a web based download?
I think you are confusing bits and bytes. You quite likely have a 256 k bits per second (kbps) connection, and the 30 is reported in k bytes per second (kB/s). Do the maths, and you'll find you are maxing out the connection. >And currently under > ktorrent I seem to average only about 8 or 9 kbs? I get some funny slow spots with ktorrent. It doesn't always seem to go as fast as rtorrent, which is my main torrent client now. Partly because it is faster, but mainly because I can control it from anywhere in the world over ssh, and it runs without a gui installed on the machine at all. Actually I could with ktorrent too, via ktshell. Give it a try, the interface is a bit clumsy - rtorrent is much nicer.
