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Originally Posted by KnowItAll  Yeah. UKNova slow down was a major blow ... I'm used to the speeds that you're getting. I was able to get Spooks downloaded @ > 300KBps.
Port forwarding is setup ok.
Router has been rebooted / reflashed with the upgraded ROM etc.
I've even shut down .. waited for the IP to get reallocated and turned back on... sure enough it slows down.
One thing, when it slows down, even the pings to netvigator.com take 1000+ ms (usually at 80-90) which indicates that they're either killing the connection or my router is getting overloaded with some floods. |
Or it could be running out of memory if you are using NAT. The Bittorrent floods the ram of routers NAT tranlsation tables. Also cpu, a router in which you can check the cpu loading is always a plus. I found a few months ago the way Bit-torrent clients work did pound the cpu of my home Cisco (only a 1605R), still this has changed, I never see it being pounded now. I think they have changed the behaviour of the bittorrent clients. Bitcomet 1.7 is for sure a much better behaved program than the 1.56 which would grind the machine, it did not try to estimate how many free sockets a machine had etc.
Another thing to watch out for is rate limiting your upload or the capacity of your circuit. I think the bittorrent protocol has got options to give you as much as you give out, I also find when downloading ISO images from Unix sites, their policies are more generous and will let you just suck and not give out anything. Anyway those torrent trackers have these "Fair" policies, if your upstream pipe is only a 640Kbit... well you can't really expect them to give you 8Mbit in bound.
I've also found if you rate limit your upload speed to 0KB/s, they throughput will increase for a while and then they will all stop sending you data until you increase your upload speed.
Anyway, KIA, the best advice I can give is be patient. Also cut down your concurrent downloads as your router maybe chocking with the NAT table or the cpu load to scan the NAT table.
After months of getting not much more than 100-150kB/s on well seeded UKNova torrents I've started getting 300+ recently and maxing out at 750-800 across all torrents.
