Upload speed

[Slysoft]

I have noticed that for most people, whenever they show their internet speeds, their download speed is much higher than their upload speed. Mine however seems to be backwards...



Is there a reason for this? Is there a way to flip flop it? I know the downloaders must be rejoicing... but I would prefer to download at 2mb/s also

(Btw right click > view to be able to read the text)

[suhaib]

Well,
as far as i can see the torrent you are downloading
has got more leechers than seeders !
so that might be the reason ...


does that happen to all of the torrents you download
or just this one ?

[Slysoft]

It's on everything but this is the only one I happened to be downloading at the moment. The only time upload is lower is if I'm the only leecher or if the number of seeders completely overwhelms the leechers.

[Mag-X]

That is weird that you ISP does that, but I wouldn't worry about it. When I upgraded from 15Mb/s down to 25Mb/s down, I didn't notice any difference in download speeds with bittorrent. The other seeders just can't send the information fast enough. On the other hand, that upgrade took me from 5Mb/s up to 15Mb/s up, and that made a huge difference. I wish I had 30Mb/s up.

[Lupin]

I prefer your situation. I rather have upload speed > download.

[TempestWing]

your speeds beat mine hands down, so i wouldn't be complaining ~_^

[NaRu]

I would love to have that upload

[Gamerzhell]

^ Me too

Uploading at 90 kb/s while you're downloading at 1.5 mb/s is sure to mess with ratios bigtime.

[NaRu]

You think you have it bad..I download close to 4MB/s and upload at 400KB/s...I could kill my ratio if I wanted within a day

[fohfoh]

Dude, don't complain. That's a FUCKING AWESOME set up. I guess the only way you might "increase" your dl is if you check to see if there's some type of limiter setting in your BT (ie: connect to X number of peers, # of max uploading slots) or if you take time to "refresh the peer/seeder list" of your torrent once it begins rolling. (Usually about a minute or two in) then you can try to connect to more peers to dl.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Your ISP probably forgot to cap your upload.  I know that people in my area have been getting some of that, as we've been getting some infrastructure upgrades (and Charter's fairly incompetent).

[milosbeli]

I wouldn't complain i got 10kbs max upload ...  :'(

[NaRu]

Just upgraded my upload speed

[Slysoft]

Also incase some of you guys don't know, when it says mb/s on speedtest.net that's megabits not megabytes. 1 byte = 8 bits so 8 megabits/s is ~ 1 megabyte/s

[xShadow]

Your speeds are quite fine. Rather than being unhappy, you should be fine with them. It's a completely effortless way to keep your ratio in check. Just start downloading something and your connection does it for you. If I tried to hook this monster of a line up to some peers anywhere near Atlanta, I'd probably end up with a 0.01 ratio by the time I got done.
Many people would be quite happy to have your connection.

I've never tried torrenting on my college's wired connection (wireless is fine, though; it has capped download speeds), and for good reason:



That's only to Atlanta, though. It's quite a bit lower to other places (sometimes ten times lower, although the upload rises to over 4 times higher in those cases). Obviously this has limited application when actually applies to downloads, too; fastest I've downloaded something was a little over 20MB/s; I think it was some random MMORPG.

[raylu]

I've never tried torrenting on my college's wired connection (wireless is fine, though; it has capped download speeds), and for good reason:

You can't just cap your own download?

[xShadow]

I've never tried torrenting on my college's wired connection (wireless is fine, though; it has capped download speeds), and for good reason:

You can't just cap your own download?

I can, but one thing I forgot to mention is that the wireless connection also gets maxed upload speed anywhere, regardless of if it's in Atlanta or otherwise. I'd do a speed test for you, but I don't feel like turning on my laptop.

Put simply, the wireless is simply much more convenient for torrenting.