Bandwidth

[rbcp]

Comcast says I have 6mbps, or something like that.  And I believe them because I've done a few speed tests and gotten something like 10mbps downstream.  So why is my interwebz painfully slow when I'm downloading a torrent that's sucking up only 35kbps down and 33kbps up?  Shouldn't that leave me with a ton of megabits to spare?  Where's the bottleneck occurring?  The interwebnet on all the other computers in my house are really slow too.  It doesn't seem like 35kbps should have such a drastic effect on a high speed internet connection.

[gangals]

It's because of the amount of connections a torrent client uses. What type of router do you have?

[rbcp]

It's because of the amount of connections a torrent client uses. What type of router do you have?

I didn't think of that.  It looks like I'm connected to 7 seeds and 14 peers right now.  Still, it's not very much bandwidth.

It's a Linksys router.  802.11G.  I'm not sure about the model number and I'm way too lazy to walk 2 steps to get it.  My primary computer, the one running uTorrent, is connected to it via cat5 cable.  But everything else in the house uses wireless.

[mr_doc]

I've got the same router. I can get 50k up and 150 down but after a while my browser stops working until I reboot the router. When I lower the up speed I browse a lot faster, even if the download speed is 100k or more.

[gangals]

It depends on what model Linksys you have, but they have their firmware set to record all connections for 2 weeks. So when you use an a lot of connections in a small time period, the router can freeze or cause other problems.

[trevelyn]

isnt your upload speed shared with the down? i know here if i am uploading anything it hogs up my width..

[Zerobio]

My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself. i get this one a lot at work your torrent prob isnt showing in the right speeds utorent dose it for me but if u watch the packets ur getting about 5 Mbs

[Nod]

I'm sure you thought of this already but have you looked in your torrent programs settings to check how much bandwidth it's allowed to use? I know in bitlord you can set the Global Max Download and upload rates in the preferences menu. I keep my download set as high as it will go (366079k) and upload at about 20k. I never get more than 100kb/s down but that's pretty respectable I think. Not quite HTTP speeds but it's definately pretty good.

[mr_doc]

gangals had it right on both counts. The torrents are slower because of the multiple connections. My router only freezes when I've used Azureus for a while.

My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself. i get this one a lot at work Cheesy your torrent prob isnt showing in the right speeds utorent dose it for me but if u watch the packets ur getting about 5 Mbs

[mofo]

Linksys routers suck for torrents. Use utorrent and make sure you don't allow utorrent to resolve IP's. Will speed things up greatly.

[Reverend Greed]

Linksys routers suck for torrents.

I beg to differ.  It's a matter of how you configure it.  And this goes without saying for ANY router brand.  I use Linksys and I get about 200-240k a second.