Download Speeds on WASTE?

[ian2041]

What kind of download speeds are people getting on WASTE? My download speeds are about 10 mbps, much slower than on Kazaa Lite or when downloading from websites. I would think the speeds would be faster. Any advice on how to speed this up a bit? Or is 10 mbps a good speed for two people connected on DSL? Thanks.

[ian2041]

I meant kbps, not mbps.. sorry

[vipp]

On waste, you only get files from 1 source.

[Muffin_Man]

WASTE speeds depend entirely on the person you are downloading from. therefore, if that person has a 10KB/s cap, thats all youll get. if you want to download files at a faster speed, you have to download from a person with more upload bandwidth, or use a multi-sourcing client.

[origin]

the rates(kb/s) are fairly good considering it does not have the luxury of multi-source downloading.

l8

[zaphodiv]

>Any advice on how to speed this up a bit?
Persuade everyone in your waste mesh to configure their firewall, NAT router, connection sharing system and waste itself so that their waste clients can receive incoming connections.

Turn on open direct connection for file transfers.

[DainBramaged]

Specific speeds aside, WASTE is very efficient at transferring files. Much better than AIM or MSN, or even some P2P applications for a given bandwidth.

[SimbaK2K]

Also, you gotta remember all that data is being encrypted and decryted again.... thats not gonna make it any faster is it? Just very secure. The speed is as fast as the users your dealing with. Get a waste network with a load of t3s, your well away!

[c4117]

i agree with DrainBramaged i have got excelent speeds using W.A.S.T.E. and have not been slowed by encryption
it's about people setting

dirrect connections

allow saturation

change the uploads from 160(default) down to something reasonable

and having a open listen port (in there router or firewall)

also asking people who download from you to change downloads from 4 at once (default) to 1 helps

and of course the up and down speed of each and what else is going on on each conection matters too.

for instance on the nullnet mesh (no ID) only 3 or 4 people have open listen ports and this really hurts the network speed wise.

[Kyle06]

waste is too confuseing for me to use hell I can't learn mIRC (not that I tried hard) but I am not even going to try this lol

[td4guy]

I set up a nice WASTE mesh on my college campus, 30-80 people, 1300-2500GB.

I've found that file transfer speeds are limited to 2000kB/sec when you're using a 1024 bit key. It's limited to 1100kB/sec when you're using a default 1536 bit key.

Is there any way that I can trick WASTE into generating, say, a 64 bit key? That would really help improve transfer speeds. I know that we're capable of doing 6000+kB/sec on this LAN.

I've also been told that the code can be modified to increase memory buffers and CPU usage (which would be an alternate solution), but this, of course, would not be desirable.

Also, I've noticed that the client automatically routes some data through other, secondary connections, rather than transferring the file completely through one direct connection. Why does it do this? It seems to me that it would increase the chances of data corruption. Plus, it slows down transfer speeds to as low as 300kB/sec.

[Rajarius]

Privacy. It helps to keep other lines partially saturated.

[multi]

if you are reading 10k/s in the transfer window-
have a look in the network status window at what the incoming speed that that tells you not the transfer window speed
i have seen it say 10k and a check in netstatus window will tell me 27 or 30k/s
note: the small "k"

[AussieMatt]

sh4rd the WASTE development lead at sourceforge has promised Multisource and partials with WASTE 2. I wonder what other goodies they will throw in .There are nightly Builds that have some inprovements go to the sourceforge site to see more details.

[vizir_iznogoud]

What does the k/s mean ?
kilobit/s or kiloByte/s ?
Thanks in advance for the answer !
Regards.

[multi]

BITS
1 bit (b) = 0 or 1 = one binary digit
1 kilobit ( kb) = 10^3 bits = 1,000 bits
1 Megabit (Mb) = 10^6 bits = 1,000,000 bits
1 Gigabit (Gb) = 10^9 bits = 1,000,000,000 bits




http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=115




BYTES
1 byte (B) = 8 bits (b)
1 Kilobyte (K / KB) = 2^10 bytes = 1,024 bytes
1 Megabyte (M / MB) = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gigabyte (G / GB) = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes
1 Terabyte (T / TB) = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes