P2P speeds

[187<>Ceasar~]

Yo

I have been wondering , what are the optimal achievable downloads speeds through p2p networks in South Africa? Is it possible for someone on ADSL to get HTTP download speeds in a P2P system , eg: 45-55kbps. Any help appreciated.

Super

[Macera]

i USE sHAREAZA AND GET ABOUT 53 kbps

[Dominate]

ive gotten 50 on bitcomet, but i average round 12, sometimes 24

[Cataphract]

I would imagine P2P is relegated to very low priority on the shaped service.

[[N]Haja]

nope, if the file is seeded porperly (ie, enough seeds to give the max d/l speed) yu can easily achieve 55kb/s p2p. Hell< i even hit times where i get 55kb/s download and up to 30kb/s upload at the same time.

[Scrye]

You can't shape torrents, because it uses a random port.

[hai2u]

they queue all the packets from all ports, and unprioritise certain ones. You'd only see a decrease in performance if there was alot of traffic like on the international links.

[187<>Ceasar~]

So in otherwords international p2p systems should give good speeds, then why does emule crank off a lousy 10kbs max on adsl? Ares is the best i get awesome constant speeds.

[hai2u]

Read what I said.

[187<>Ceasar~]

Was meaningless to me dood. soz

[Scrye]

So then don't ask if you don't know what's going on?

[187<>Ceasar~]

I'm not going to reply to your stupid statement that you put a question mark at the end of.

[Wh1tE_Tr4sH]

I've bumped into a site that helps out with the downloading of your torrets, can't remember the adress tho but it says that if you open these ports : 6881 - 6889 or 6881 - 6898 you should get a bit faster download but what Haja says is true
if the file is seeded porperly (ie, enough seeds to give the max d/l speed) yu can easily achieve 55kb/s p2p.

my 2c
(http://www.torrents.co.uk/)

[Pyro]

Well just in an attempt to get superman to understand...

Priorities are assigned to each port, so your HTTP (web browsing), ftp, email or whatever has above average priorities, p2p's default ports get assigned lower than average priorities. Anything that doesn't have a specific priority assigned (p2p on non-default ports) will be considered average.

Now if you don't have any congestion (lines are not full, plenty bandwidth to spare) this will not affect download speeds. SA's International lines are pretty congested though, so you get affected by these priorities, and your international downloads suffer.

If you were to use your HTTP port for p2p, you should be able to fool some checks into thinking that you are sending higher priority data, resulting in http speeds.

As i understand it, these limitations are per connection, so if you are connected to 50 sources, you should be able to get higher speeds than if you were only connected to 10 sources, because each connection is only able to get say 2 kb/s. Not 100% sure of that though.

[bl@d3]

I use the dc hubs quite a bit, and often get speeds of 50K+, sometimes even spiking to 60 or 70, depending on the number of ppl sharing. What I don't understand is, small files often download much faster like 100-200K, why is this? also, I can be capped and still update Norton at "full" speed?

[Dominate]

im not sure but doesnt nortons connect to a local server to d o the updates?