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[ricklev]

I upgraded to 1 Gig down/1 Gig up True fiber to my condo a couple of months ago with the hopes of getting better torrent download speed. 

 

True severely throttles torrent downloads  in Bangkok (hmmph!)  but allows it with a VPN.  I use ExpressVPN set to Thailand.

 

Previously I had a 50/20 connection and would occasionally top out a torrent download at 5mb/s. 

 

I thought it would be much better with the high speed fiber.  It is somewhat better but I almost never get above 10 mb/s even with thousands of seeders.

 

 I am curious if this true of other fiber users who download torrents?  What is your experience?  

 

   

[BritManToo]

3bb, I have the normal 1000/500 connection and sometimes my torrent speed reaches 15, but normally it's 5-10.

[KannikaP]

Does the speed of a downloading torrent not also depend on who is sending it, and  how many there are.

[ricklev]

23 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Does the speed of a downloading torrent not also depend on who is sending it, and  how many there are.

Yes

[FlorC]

Does download speed really matter ?

Unless you're downloading full blueray rips @ 40 GB or so ...

 

Of course I do not torrent because it is illegal , but a friend of mine does.

Downloading is not a problem , but uploading is.

NT really throttles uploads , weirdly enough especially in the weekend.

Hard to get a 1:1 ratio. Or so I'm told , because I would never ....

[OneMoreFarang]

It's a long time ago when I set this up, but I remember there are a couple of "special setting" like allowing certain ports to make torrents a lot faster.

I used TRUE for many years in Bangkok, and I never had any performance problems.

[OneMoreFarang]

6 minutes ago, FlorC said:

Does download speed really matter ?

Unless you're downloading full blueray rips @ 40 GB or so ...

 

Of course I do not torrent because it is illegal , but a friend of mine does.

Downloading is not a problem , but uploading is.

NT really throttles uploads , weirdly enough especially in the weekend.

Hard to get a 1:1 ratio. Or so I'm told , because I would never ....

 

Most private internet connections have a much higher download rate than upload rate. Because most people watch and don't publish. That might be the main reason. 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

Does the speed of a downloading torrent not also depend on who is sending it, and  how many there are.

And where they are in the world.

[FlorC]

38 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

Most private internet connections have a much higher download rate than upload rate. Because most people watch and don't publish. That might be the main reason. 

Yes upload speeds are usually lower , but it does not explain why seeding doesn't start even if it indicated that there are "willing peers" .

That friend of mine was recently in europe , and there was absolutely no problem uploading downloaded torrents.

Same computer , same torrent program.

I wonder what would be less obvious for companies like true/nt/3BB : downloading slow but steady at 500 KB/sec or quick at a top speed of about 15 MB/sec ?

Even if you use a vpn.

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, FlorC said:

Of course I do not torrent because it is illegal , but a friend of mine does.

Yeh yeh yeh