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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Powerslave on September 30, 2008, 04:15:34 PM

Title: What's the point of having a 2MB/s connection when it never achieves that speed?
Post by: Powerslave on September 30, 2008, 04:15:34 PM

I download with 1900kb/s on ftp but almost never get that speed anywhere else. Torrents usually go with 100-300kb/s and every once in a while I get 1 mb/s. Websites don't load that fast either, which is weird.. and whenever I have utorrent running, no matter what I download or not, everything goes slower instantly.
What the fuck is going on and why should I pay for this connection if everything goes relatively slow anyway? Help would be much appreciated, I'll suck your toes.

Title: Re: What's the point of having a 2MB/s connection when it never achieves that speed?
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on September 30, 2008, 04:17:36 PM

Are you on DSL or cable? For what it's worth my browsers chug like a bitch whenever I'm grabbing torrents on the same computer, and I could never figure out why.

Title: Re: What's the point of having a 2MB/s connection when it never achieves that speed?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on September 30, 2008, 04:20:14 PM

it's because you're capping your UPSTREAM even if your downstream still has some space

you can't send the packet requests

smh at slow pirates

Title: Re: What's the point of having a 2MB/s connection when it never achieves that speed?
Post by: Powerslave on September 30, 2008, 04:28:43 PM

Quote from: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on September 30, 2008, 04:17:36 PM

Are you on DSL or cable? For what it's worth my browsers chug like a bitch whenever I'm grabbing torrents on the same computer, and I could never figure out why.

DSL

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on September 30, 2008, 04:20:14 PM

it's because you're capping your UPSTREAM even if your downstream still has some space

you can't send the packet requests

smh at slow pirates

Do you mean this?

(http://i35.tinypic.com/2dt242s.png)


I have it set to 2Mb upload. And my upload is only 120 kb/s  -.-

Title: Re: What's the point of having a 2MB/s connection when it never achieves that speed?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on September 30, 2008, 04:30:19 PM

if your upstream is uncapped then your download is going to be perceptively slower because you're unable to send these information requests

cap your upstream

Title: Re: What's the point of having a 2MB/s connection when it never achieves that speed?
Post by: Powerslave on September 30, 2008, 04:43:50 PM

Cap it how much exactly? Also there has to be something wrong with my utorrent and modem settings. Help me out man :(

Title: Re: What's the point of having a 2MB/s connection when it never achieves that speed?
Post by: Tieno on October 01, 2008, 07:24:56 AM

-Install the fasterfox plugin for faster browsing
-Use the combo of flashget (download manager) and firefox 'flashgot' plugin, every big file I download from the net I run through the flashget download manager so it can download the file with simultaneous connections (up to 10 or 30). I download the 1upshow at my max speed of 3 megabyte/s with 5 or 10 simultaneous connections. Everything above 1mb...it has become a habit and this way I can download files way faster than a single connection allows so I can fully utilize my max speed. It also supports resumed downloading.
-For torrent I opened a few ports on my router and on good torrents I sometimes can get up to 1mbyte/s (I usually cap global upspeed at 10kb/s).