Maxnet: Torrents Slowed Down Again?

[moo9]

After having my double speed upgrade I could enjoy torrent downloads up to 250k for a couple of days. For 2 days now however, my max torrent download speed is abt. 40 - 50 k only. Seems like Maxnet has slowed it down again. How about your experiences?

[Wolfie]

Torrent speeds have many factors that affect it, number of seeders sharing the files, the number of seeders you can actually connect to, the bandwidth they are allocating to the download etc. You cant always expect to be getting the 'max' download speed all day and everyday

[raro]

right, speed is up and down at the moment, but this must not necessarily be related to Maxnet.

As I heard, intelligent routers (that we assume are in use at TTT) manage the traffic on the torrent ports according to the overall traffic. If there is nothing much going on, the throttle opens, if lots of people are surfing, the trafffic on the torrents goes down. I enjoy 195 on 2.5 Mbps at the moment....

What annoys me, is that I have a bunch of downloads at about 99% and they are just stuck. Any idea how to solve that?

Edited September 12, 2007 by raro

[Wolfie]

I enjoy 195 on 2.5 Mbps at the moment....

What annoys me, is that I have a bunch of downloads at about 99% and they are just stuck. Any idea how to solve that?

I get around 250 on my 2M connection on popular downloads

As for the 99% downloads.. well you just have to wait and hope that a seeder will connect and let you have that last 1%

[moo9]

Surely it depends on the availability of the file, but the ones I am just now downloading are quite popular and seeded, so I was expecting a higher speed.

[Wolfie]

Surely it depends on the availability of the file, but the ones I am just now downloading are quite popular and seeded, so I was expecting a higher speed.

I've found with the client i use (uTorrent) that i have two numbers in the seeder column. The Main number and a number in brackets (x)

As i understand it (altho i could be wrong, it does happen sometimes!) the main number is the number of seeders your connected to, whilst the number in brackets is the number of seeders the tracker knows about.

So, for instance i have a torrent with a seeder value as 10(1019) - this means i'm only connected to 10 of the possible 1019 seeders known for this file.

This can and will have an effect on the speed you will download at. Also uTorrent allows me to limit the upload speed (and download speed) of the torrent client. So to stop my torrent client eating all my bandwidth and stopping me from doing other stuff (streaming radio, games, browsing etc) i limit both my up and down speeds. So its also possible that out of those 10 seeders (in the example above) your only getting a few kbs upload from them. Of course with peers (people with only a partial download of the file) its possible to be downloading from more than the 10 seeders meaning you can get a faster download.

I'm sure someone with more knowledge on this subject will either confirm or correct me on this.

[cdnvic]

The problem is that the well seeded popular ones are also in highest demand so that limits you too.

[raro]

I actually use Bitcomet, it shows a seed/peer conmparison. Do I understand it right that the peers are those who are looking for the file whereas the seeders are those how are offering it for a download? I always thought those who are downloading are called leechers...

Now as I have already parts of a file downloaded, does that mean that I am seeder and leecher at the same time?

[raro]

...and now full blown 278 kBps....YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[JetsetBkk]

What annoys me, is that I have a bunch of downloads at about 99% and they are just stuck. Any idea how to solve that?

It's possible that the torrents are 'fake': if they're a bunch of RAR files, i.e. you can't tell what's in them, the torrent may be rubbish put out there by the intellectual property owner of the true file(s). Can't blame 'em, really.

Otherwise you just have to wait for a seeder.

[Prasert]

Surely it depends on the availability of the file, but the ones I am just now downloading are quite popular and seeded, so I was expecting a higher speed.

I've found with the client i use (uTorrent) that i have two numbers in the seeder column. The Main number and a number in brackets (x)

As i understand it (altho i could be wrong, it does happen sometimes!) the main number is the number of seeders your connected to, whilst the number in brackets is the number of seeders the tracker knows about.

So, for instance i have a torrent with a seeder value as 10(1019) - this means i'm only connected to 10 of the possible 1019 seeders known for this file.

This can and will have an effect on the speed you will download at. Also uTorrent allows me to limit the upload speed (and download speed) of the torrent client. So to stop my torrent client eating all my bandwidth and stopping me from doing other stuff (streaming radio, games, browsing etc) i limit both my up and down speeds. So its also possible that out of those 10 seeders (in the example above) your only getting a few kbs upload from them. Of course with peers (people with only a partial download of the file) its possible to be downloading from more than the 10 seeders meaning you can get a faster download.

I'm sure someone with more knowledge on this subject will either confirm or correct me on this.

You're right on this.

There's another factor. In your settings you can enter a number of concurrent connections for a torrent. If that number is exceeded, no more connections will be created. Don't set that value too high; you will stress out your router with too many concurrent connections, because your router has to translate each of those connections (which is CPU and memory consuming....)

The standard white "routers" from TOT rapidly degrade in performance after 200 concurrent connections.

Zyxel and Linksys can handle a bit more.

[katana]

...What annoys me, is that I have a bunch of downloads at about 99% and they are just stuck. Any idea how to solve that?

I had that once when downloading a file split into several .rar files.

What appeared to have happened is that one of the rars had become corrupted and couldn't complete.

You can look through the options of your Bittorent client to view the file and see which one it is. Then restart the download to a separate folder, but only download the rar that was corrupted.

[ungcas]

right, speed is up and down at the moment, but this must not necessarily be related to Maxnet.

As I heard, intelligent routers (that we assume are in use at TTT) manage the traffic on the torrent ports according to the overall traffic. If there is nothing much going on, the throttle opens, if lots of people are surfing, the trafffic on the torrents goes down. I enjoy 195 on 2.5 Mbps at the moment....

What annoys me, is that I have a bunch of downloads at about 99% and they are just stuck. Any idea how to solve that?

Are you guys dling for sources within Asia/Europe, or North America?

I'll be moving to BKK next month and i'm really curious and what kind of speeds you get from torrents. Here in canada, 18mb cable is an option here, but dling torrents from overseas i'm still stuck at 20-30K if i'm lucky.

I really love BKK, but i must admit i'll miss my broandband here.

Edited September 13, 2007 by ungcas

[Tufty]

What annoys me, is that I have a bunch of downloads at about 99% and they are just stuck. Any idea how to solve that?

Try deleting the torrent file, download it again and load into utorrent or whatever you use, Ive had the same problem a few times only with private trackers though

2 days ago my dl speed was 200kB/s and today its down to 25 max, I think Maxnet could be playing around with the servers, a speed test shows great differences in upload and dl speeds on tests a few minutes apart

[beammeup]

I find with utorrent that with my cheep 500k connection if there are more seeders than peers than I can get around 100k. I have just upgraded to 1m so maybe more.

[JetsetBkk]

What annoys me, is that I have a bunch of downloads at about 99% and they are just stuck. Any idea how to solve that?

Try deleting the torrent file, download it again and load into utorrent or whatever you use, Ive had the same problem a few times only with private trackers though

2 days ago my dl speed was 200kB/s and today its down to 25 max, I think Maxnet could be playing around with the servers, a speed test shows great differences in upload and dl speeds on tests a few minutes apart

Same here - Maxnet on the 9th was giving me 220+ kBytes/s total download at 4:00 in the morning. This was when there were lots of problems with Hotmail, so I think they were making some changes to their network then:

Unfortunately, now its back to "normal" - 10-20 kB/s.

[adjan jb]

right, speed is up and down at the moment, but this must not necessarily be related to Maxnet.

I Made a line quality test on november 13

From East Coast - USA to YOU

HOST LOSS

mx-ll-58.147.0-43.tttmaxnet.com 0%

mx-ll-58.147.0-54.tttmaxnet.com 4%

mx-ll-58.147.0-26.tttmaxnet.com 69%

(fail)

From West Coast - USA to YOU

HOST LOSS

mx-ll-58.147.0-42.tttmaxnet.com 2%

mx-ll-58.147.0-54.tttmaxnet.com 2%

mx-ll-58.147.0-26.tttmaxnet.com 64%

Edited November 15, 2007 by adjan jb