Could shutdown of sites cause slowed d/l rates?

[rdallen21]

This may be a very dumb question, but here goes....

I downloaded several .torrent files from sites such as isohunt.com that pointed to the original file as being from suprnova or torrentbits. According to the isohunt stats, there were several hundred seeders and over 1,000 peers. When I tried downloading the files through Azureus, I could barely get over 3kB/s (sometimes about 15kB/s in short bursts) and some of the files showed no seeds and 1 or 2 peers (contrary to what was shown on the isohunt site). Before these sites started shutting down, I was getting literally around 175kB/s.

Do the trackers for these files get shut down when the sites the files originate from get shut down? If so, does that render the .torrent files I already downloaded useless? I hope I'm making sense here...

Any info would be appreciated.

[rainbowdemon]

Been wondering that myself. Lately my bt speeds have been pretty sucko too.

[rebirth]

mine have been maxing my connection still, not noticeably slower, only was when I was configuring my routers still...I hate switching ISPs.

[hawkburn]

Well if the torrents you are getting were used to being exposed on SuprNova and the likes that were shut down, it is a great chance that much of the traffic was taken away, even if it's still shown on a smaller site. SuprNova had started to become the 'kazaa users' migration site and once it was taken down, everyone went into a scramble again I guess heh.

I'd give it another month until the next true players in the torrent industry show themselves. I'm betting on torrentspy, and I would think elitetorrents is the next torrentbits.

[TheGateKeeper]

I just DLed something from ISO Hunt and and the DL was fine for me, I was getting 50KB/s+. The file DLed in about an hour.
As far as slower DL speeds, it hasn't seemed to affect me, my speeds have always been determined by how many seeder/leechers I can connect to. I mean my avg. DL speed on most of my torrents are between 50-400KB/s
So as far as Im concerned the supernova shutdown hasn't really affected me much. Im good!

[talkinghand]

this is how i see it:>

there is no direct reason that the shutdown of sites would affect your DL speed, but
i would bet there is a possibility that for some indirect reason, it would affect you in some way. now that way is prolly small but hey.

[cjules13]

My BT speeds have remained unaffected - same as always.... great!

[Malicious Intent]

At first I thought that it must be because of the sites closing down. But it has since carried on. I thought that it must be me, but clearly not.

Torrents are nearly always yellow and I seem to struggle to connect to anyone at all. Strange.

[cuplatnum]

well the fact that sites shutting down should not directly effect your speed if the site got shutdown and they were running a tracker then yes the tracker would go down as well. THE reason you can't seem to connect to alot of torrents is now that alot of trackers have been taken down the torrent search engines have not taken them off there indexes yet. with people looking for new alternatives the trackers that are still up are overloaded with new traffic. just give it a few more weeks i have already started to see things already improve

[Malicious Intent]

It is the people that I struggle to connect to, rather than the trackers.

[freeloader767]

It is the people that I struggle to connect to, rather than the trackers.

In my continous hunt for proxies I found out that England has Comcast as an isp is this correct? If so theres your problem MI!

[Malicious Intent]

I believe NTL purchased Comcast UK from Comcast. I use Tesco.net, which is operated by NTL.

I can't find Comcast as an ISP in England. The Comcast website says that the run some internet shopping services here, but nothing else.

What is really strange is that non-copyright files are green, but it still has problems connecting. That must be coincidence.

[notbob]

less link sites means less users

less users means less bandwidth

less bandwidth means less speed

the end

[Malicious Intent]

I'm connected to 78 other users (11 seeds). Not a single one is a remote connection. It has been the same since SuprNova went down. I have had a tvtorrent.tv torrent go green and so have the Azureus updates. Oh - and a video of the Tsunami.

Films, computer games and software have all failed to turn green. This isn't about user numbers.

I dont really believe that my failure to get remote connections is connected to SuprNova going down, but it is strange that rdallen21 has noticed the same.

[notbob]

I'm connected to 78 other users (11 seeds). Not a single one is a remote connection. It has been the same since SuprNova went down. I have had a tvtorrent.tv torrent go green and so have the Azureus updates. Oh - and a video of the Tsunami.

Films, computer games and software have all failed to turn green. This isn't about user numbers.

I dont really believe that my failure to get remote connections is connected to SuprNova going down, but it is strange that rdallen21 has noticed the same.

then maybe your isp is throttling you--who knows?

it's hard to tell without being at your house looking over your shoulder

but without link sites, bt is in big trouble regardless