Torreent download speeds.

[happysmileman]

I've just started downloading the KDE4 version of Kubuntu using BitTorrent, and to be honest I haven't been getting good speeds, I have an average download speed of under 2KB/s and reached a maximum of about 15.

What are your experiences with torrents today? In all versions, would be interesting to see how jmuch faster regular Ubuntu is to something like Edubuntu.

(While I typed this my speeds went up a bit, now it seems to be averaging about 5KB/s and reached a max of about 25)

EDIT: Yes I do realise that I might just be unlucky, so I'm not claiming that the torrent is very slow or anything, and I also understand that for a long while there will be much more leechers than seeders, I'm not complaining

[Lostincyberspace]

Also who is your isp they might be throttling.

I know mine does but I am getting quite a bit better speeds than you. 50 Kb/s

[Amstell]

I just finished downloading via torrent and was in the speed of 800. Only took about 10 minutes to download. Cheers

[Kingsley]

Which torrent client do you use? Deluge works perfectly out of the box for me on my university's firewalled network. I think it has something to do with inbound and outbound encryption.

[Nano Geek]

Limiting your upload speed makes the download go a lot faster.

[Officer Dibble]

Could you post some of these torrent links here, please? :)

[happysmileman]

Also who is your isp they might be throttling.

Some regional Irish one, I know they don't throttle since I can regularly (including now), get my full D/L limit on a torrent (though that's only 512kbps).

Speed seems to have shot up after I did a manual announce.


Could you post some of these torrent links here, please?

The torrent files should be listed in same directories as the actual ISO downloads on the main servers.

[Kvark]

Could you post some of these torrent links here, please? :)
http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/

Just downloaded 64bit Kubuntu 8.04 in 4 minutes and 14 seconds with the torrent, the average speed was 2.7MB/s and the top speed 5.6MB/s, fastest torrent I've ever seen.:)

[insane_alien]

torrent speeds are likely suck because there are so many people downloading and not enough seeding. this will improve with time, be patient and seed so others don't have the same problem.

[Teber]

took me a little over 30 mins to get ubuntu 32 bit version. still uploading now

[hyper_ch]

I've seeded at 8.5 MByte/s - at least that's the max. I've seen on my server...

I have seeded now over 560 cd-images ;)

[vishzilla]

The ubuntu tracker isn't responding now. What about you guys?

[hyper_ch]

use DHT

[vishzilla]

use DHT
Ah, using Transmission. No wonder. Thanks!

[hyper_ch]

no, using rtorrent ;)

http://www.sjau.ch/rtorrent_hardy.png

--> that was about 2h ago

[vishzilla]

no, using rtorrent ;)

--> that was about 2h ago

I meant i was using Transmission!

[hyper_ch]

you should start using rTorrent then ;)

Transmission does not support DHT?

[anaconda]

hmm.. interesting..

I am getting about 90-100kB/s with my 1MB 3G connection
Which is really really good, because I am behind an ISP firewall, from which I cant even open any ports that ktorrent needs..

And getting almost the max speed anyway!! The best I can get are 125kB/s..

[vishzilla]

Nope it doesn't. I am actually on a Fresh Hardy install. Downloading Xubuntu ISO for a friend. I will try out rtorrent

[hyper_ch]

if you wanna try out rtorrent you also should use it in conjunction with screen ;)

And also recommended to get the latest svn version of rtorrent ;) I can give you a howto for that ;)

[vishzilla]

if you wanna try out rtorrent you also should use it in conjunction with screen ;)

And also recommended to get the latest svn version of rtorrent ;) I can give you a howto for that ;)

Sure

[regomodo]

got my torrent link from canonical. Speed seemed to vary a lot, sometimes over 1MB/s to 200kB/s. Could be because i ignore unencrypted connections

[hyper_ch]

Sure

need to adjust it to hardy: http://www.howtoforge.com/compiling_rtorrent_from_svn_on_ubuntu_gutsy_gibbon

But it's all the same...

A example .rtorrent.rc can be found in /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/examples/rtorrent.rc

Just copy it to /home/user/.rtorrent.rc

In there uncomment the DHT and also set other options. Set max. Upload to about 85-90% of your max upload speed...

Also set a session folder and I'd recommend to set a watchfolder also (and uncomment the auto-add for the watchfolder in .rtorrent.rc)

Here's a little starter guide that made me use rtorrent: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/howto-use-rtorrent-like-a-pro/

The official rtorrent homepage is http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no


And I recommend running rtorrent in a screen. A small introduction to screen is here: http://jmcpherson.org/screen.html

[vishzilla]

@hyper_ch: thanks a million. i will try it out!!