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cnp23
August 6th, 2003, 02:06 AM
For some reason, I get better speeds off of loading torrents in Shareaza compared to using regular BT client. Why is this so?
This is using the same torrent file.
neoufo51
August 6th, 2003, 03:02 AM
Magic...or possibly the Shareaza SuperSpeed Fairy:wings
Greylin
August 6th, 2003, 08:15 AM
Not sure why....My opinion of Shareaza's Bittorrent support is that is sucks. Maybe the Shareaza client still lists the download/upload speeds in bits per second as opposed to bytes per second like most torrent clients. Could be the time of day you were connected.... i.e more seeders versus leachers.
cnp23
August 7th, 2003, 01:02 AM
hm whether it was kBs or kbs it was still a difference of 5 and 500 for downstream. That is a huge difference.
The thing is I usually check the number of seeds with torrentspy and it usually gives me a very high number like 300. But when I actually connect using the bt-client, it only connects to 5 or 6 seeds and transfer rates are slow. Then when I use Shareaza to load the torrent file, it gives me 50-60 sources and even faster speeds.
Oh well, whatever gets the job done
neoufo51
August 7th, 2003, 06:26 AM
Originally posted by Greylin
Not sure why....My opinion of Shareaza's Bittorrent support is that is sucks. Maybe the Shareaza client still lists the download/upload speeds in bits per second as opposed to bytes per second like most torrent clients. Could be the time of day you were connected.... i.e more seeders versus leachers.
You can change the speed display from bits to bytes easily in the preferences.
cnp23
August 12th, 2003, 06:26 PM
also, when I look up a torrent in TorrentSpy, it says it has like 30+ seeds and 500 incompletes. Why, when I connect using any of the BT clients, can I not download from anyone? I end up uploading what I have (which is about 10%) and I don't download at all. I don't even connect to many sources either, maybe 2 seeds and 5 peers. What's going on? I don't remember it being like this before.
isus
August 12th, 2003, 06:56 PM
Originally posted by neoufo51
Magic...or possibly the Shareaza SuperSpeed Fairy:wings
that fairy needs to get his bum over to my house. shoot... shareaza is hella slow, no matter what the network is.
"Maybe the Shareaza client still lists the download/upload speeds in bits per second as opposed to bytes per second like most torrent clients."
you can select how shareaza displays it. so while it is possible that it was displaying it as bits (which would be 8x faster), i think shareaza is defaulted to show in bytes/sec
(oops neoufo beat me...)
serrebi101
August 12th, 2003, 07:17 PM
BT usualley maxis out my connection with shareaza,