Are Nildram port throttling on torrents?

FunkyT · 17 Jun 2006 at 08:32

I only seem to be able to get about 25KB/s download on a torrent with a health of 2000%. Strangely the upload maxes at about 45KB/s :rolleyes:

sja360 · 17 Jun 2006 at 08:40

what client are you using and i presume your on the adslmax?
tried turning on encryption within the torrent program?

bigred · 17 Jun 2006 at 08:47

FunkyT said:
I only seem to be able to get about 25KB/s download on a torrent with a health of 2000%. Strangely the upload maxes at about 45KB/s

Try lowering your upload.

FunkyT · 17 Jun 2006 at 09:40

sja360 said:
what client are you using and i presume your on the adslmax?
tried turning on encryption within the torrent program?

I'm using BTComet 0.63 and I'm on ADSL Max.

Enabling encryption doesn't seem to have an affect :rolleyes:

FunkyT · 17 Jun 2006 at 09:43

bigred said:
Try lowering your upload.

"WARNING: your download speed is proportional to your uploads! DSL users please limit under your line capacity or download speed will be affected."

csmager · 17 Jun 2006 at 09:48

FunkyT said:
"WARNING: your download speed is proportional to your uploads! DSL users please limit under your line capacity or download speed will be affected."

But if you're maxing our your upload and *you're* not applying any traffic shaping, then there's a chance that the ACK packets are being delayed. That would slow down HTTP type transfers, not sure what effect it has on Torrent. That statement implies if it's not *under* line capacity, it will affect download speed, so I guess it does have an affect.

So, humour bigred. Lower it to 35k.

Phil99 · 17 Jun 2006 at 10:41

Even 35K on my MaxDSL connection slows down the download for some reason.

Limit the upload to 10KB/s and then seed it for a bit afterwards if you want to speed the download up.

Kol · 17 Jun 2006 at 12:01

On my line, I find restricting my upload to 8KB/s yields the best results enabling me to max out my line (only 256kbit upload here).

When I had 1Mbit upload, even limiting it to 50KB/s did nothing oddly enough, so ended up limiting that to 15KB/s and again got the best results.

player · 17 Jun 2006 at 13:49

Weren't Nildram bought out by pipex? And don't pipex throttle certain ports?

Keylow · 17 Jun 2006 at 14:20

Yes, but they aren't usign the same equipment. Nildram do not throttle any ports.

Pho · 17 Jun 2006 at 14:37

Just use Newsgroups

I downloaded a torrent at about 200kb the other day so it seems good still (only a small one to actually see what my speed were like, didn't have chance to really get going).

Gaverick · 17 Jun 2006 at 16:32

Torrents are fine here on Nildram, i use utorrent with encryption on. I'm on maxdsl so i have my settings as upload speed 35kb/s and number of upload slots to 10. I Was reaching 400kb/s last night on a torrent.

FunkyT · 24 Jun 2006 at 10:54

Thanks lads. I think it must have been a slow torrent - panic off

I downloaded Pure Pwnage Episode 11 the other day and it came down like greased lightning! :cool:

Gaverick · 24 Jun 2006 at 15:43

lol at the sheep