On Thursday 14 Apr 2005 19:51, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On April 14, 2005 12:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 14 Apr 2005 17:05, Tom wrote: > > > I've got a 1536Kbit/384Kbit adsl connection. That translates > > > to 160KB/40KB in bytes. So I use 1/2 for torrent uploads, 20KB/s. > > > That leaves plenty for my connection to do other things while I'm > > > seeding. You can get a good rating of your down/up rates in Kbytes > > > here, http://www.dslreports.com/stest or otherwise, a good rule of > > > thumb is to divide Kbit rates by 10, to get Kbyte rates. > > > > > > If you use an upload rate that is the max (or even more) for > > > your connection, it defeats the whole purpose of limiting upload. > > > 1/2 seems to be about right. Using 20KB/s up, I got a steady > > > 155KB/s down about 30 minutes into the 6CD torrent. > > > > I thought I more-or-less understood what happens with the torrent, but > > twice today I have gone from acceptable speeds down to very low speeds > > and stayed there. Stopping the torrent and re-starting it has > > immediately brought it back to decent speeds. I'm very puzzled by this. > > > > Anne > > I could be wrong, but I think it just looks up the set of peers to use when > you first connect. If some of those peers then disappear (exit their > session, lose their connection, whatever), that part of your downloading > disappears. Perhaps if they all dropped if it would look for new ones, but > I don't know. But reconnecting forces it to find a new set of peersr. I > think this explains the symptoms. It would be nice to have it periodically > check for better peers. Could be wrong, but doesn't it do this when it updates the tracker info? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free
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