ralphm1999 wrote:
15 to an occasional 50 kbs is what I get. And I have the same setup as BMW. That's why I feel BT is antiquated. It was fine during the ancient dialup days.... which is why it was developed in any case. Now with the great DSL speeds why offer stuff on BT where you are always dependant on a seeder and other participants and 3 days after it's up there you can no longer find enough people to swarm for you.... did you ever try to d/l a BT that is over 5 days old? lots of luck.... Why not just u/l what you are willing to share to megaupload or other like utiltiy and then you can d/l at full DSL speed. That's where it will be a year from now anyway.... and no incomprehensible swithches to set that never work anyway. :metaldevil: :metaldevil:
I think it has a lot to do with the sites people go to. If you go to a Grateful Dead torrent site, and get on as soon as the show is uploaded you'll normally start out at around 30kB/s. A half hour later 70kB/s. Eventually most everybody is chugging along at over 100kB/s.
If you get on after four or more seeds are there, you typically get speeds well above 200kB/s. But you may not achieve your 1.0+ ratio which is frowned upon by the community.
But if you go to some other places, people have like 20 torrents going on at the same time. There's no way to pick up speed. Often times there's hit and run leechers stealing bw and you'll never finish.
The upload sites like sendspace, fupload, etc. are cool. But it's normally capped at around 50kB/s down. Even LMA had a 150kB/s cap which pales in comparison to torrenting at hardcore Dead centric sites.
IMO, BT is the way to go if done correctly.