Just did a speed test ..

**gw326** · August 24th, 2005, 05:54 PM

at dslreports.com and according to them my download speed is 902 ,upload is 252.I'm downloading a certain file right now.It peaked at 35.2 kb/s down,and is only averaging around 4.something kb/s up.However,my download speed is constantly throughout the file between 17 and 20 kb/s.Is this normal,or should i be doing something to up my speeds?

**mountain_rage** · August 24th, 2005, 06:00 PM

That depends on many things, what program are you using first of all. Although even without knowing what program you are using there are many factors that determine your speed for downloading a file. The person you are downloading from has a great effect on your speed if they can only upload at 20kb/s then thats the only speed your gonna get the file at. If the person is uploading to multiple users then thats gonna affect the speed. The number of sources when retrieving the file greatly affects speed. But your condition seems like the average. I have a 1.5mb/s line according to that site yet usually the fastest i get a file is 150kb/s

**Krell** · August 24th, 2005, 06:02 PM

Your download speed for THAT File is what it is, stop worrying about it, you have little to no control over it.

Secondly, doing a speed test while using P2P is MEANINGLESS, with very few exceptions

Now, with a clear cache, and from a fresh reboot, with NOTHING ELSE running dslreports test is great.

What you need to start observing is, how many SEEDERS there are, and if there are few, go get a life. If theres 2 dozen, and theres still no bandwidth, then we might have some suspicions.

youre fine, now go get a pizza

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**gw326** · August 24th, 2005, 06:08 PM

Thanks for explaining it to me.I'm using Azureus.Currently the seeds says 34 (128),and peers 43 (461).Current down speeds are 7.0 kb/s (yikes),and up are still basically the same.I'm only 28% done with the file,so i guess it will be awhile before it will be done.

**Krell** · August 24th, 2005, 06:24 PM

Yah that sounds a wee bit low to me, but again, you may not be connected to all of them, and they may just be no bandwidth greedy SOBs.

Lets let some others say what they think about this

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**.:sp00ky:.** · August 24th, 2005, 07:02 PM

well the leechers out number the peers on that torrent so i guess it could be normal to have lowish speeds for a while,but really it depends on lots of different stuff when on BT best thing to do is to go find a torrent with just peers and maybe a few leechers and see what speeds you get.

**mountain_rage** · August 24th, 2005, 07:11 PM

I just remembered are you running windows xp with service pack 2, I duno if this is still a issue with filesharing programs but you may have to open up more connections. There was a patch floating around a little while back

**Krell** · August 24th, 2005, 07:16 PM

Hey good catch!

Look in your Event View and see if you have any 4226 events. If you do, then search for the EvID 4226 Patch 211 a-en

http://mitglied.lycos.de/lvllord/download-mirror.htm

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**gw326** · August 25th, 2005, 06:06 AM

Sorry just got home from work.It says i have 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600.Also,what is the Event View? Nevermind i did a search on google to find how i access the Event Viewer.

Under System,theres a Warning next to Tcpip (twice?) and Dhcp whatever that means.

**napho** · August 25th, 2005, 06:44 AM

Many isp's are using stuff like this to slow down p2p. BitTorrent has a bullseye on it.

http://www.ellacoya.com/

**zarquon** · August 25th, 2005, 06:48 AM

Originally Posted by gw326

Sorry just got home from work.It says i have 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600.Also,what is the Event View? Nevermind i did a search on google to find how i access the Event Viewer.

Under System,theres a Warning next to Tcpip (twice?) and Dhcp whatever that
means.

What is the tcpip warning. Do you have any 4226 errors. Dhcp just means dynamic ip. If there are errors download the patch krell linked to and replace tcpip.sys with patched version. Also set the max connections with the patch to 100.

**shawners** · August 25th, 2005, 09:02 AM

I do a speed test on usenet.. 2.5 or 305kbs downstream =)

**mcovey** · August 25th, 2005, 09:24 AM

my speed is 512KB (4mbps) / 48K (384k)
I've seen speeds around 400K from websites (Firefox lies about download speeds! It's given me speeds over 1MBps)

My up hovers around 55K max on a good day. But I never let it go that high, because it'll saturate the modems bandwidth.

**origin** · August 25th, 2005, 10:10 AM

2005-08-25 13:15:19 EST: 6009 / 581
Your download speed : 6153600 bps, or 6009 kbps.
A 751.1 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 595238 bps, or 581 kbps.

i love cable ;)

l8

**gw326** · August 25th, 2005, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by zarquon

What is the tcpip warning. Do you have any 4226 errors. Dhcp just means dynamic ip. If there are errors download the patch krell linked to and replace tcpip.sys with patched version. Also set the max connections with the patch to 100.

Would it hurt anything if i downloaded the patch anyways? The TCPIP Warning states " TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts. ".

Theres an error also as follows.."The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block."

I believe thats all i saw.Thanks for the help guys!