Downloading some torrent last night and today and noticed when I start, they get up to 1.5MBb/s then it dies to 0. Starts back again and dies again.

Looking at the utorrent log it shows the torrents were failing hash check. Could this be the tracker or just my connection dropping?

6/9/2010 6:05:12 PM

probably a tracker problem or a problem with a peer.

6/9/2010 6:06:54 PM

i never get 1.5mb/s torrents

for whatever reason I can speed test at 18 mb/s but can't get over 500kb/s of torrenting done at a time, and the max I've been able to download at a time from a non-torrent is like 800kb/s

6/9/2010 6:27:29 PM

according to steam my peak d/l rate is 1.8MB/s. Thats on standard rr.

6/9/2010 6:45:28 PM

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"i never get 1.5mb/s torrents"

revolutiontt son

My steam downloads are good.

For whatever reason it just kills the internet (brother gets disconnected from WoW) and i lose all my speed.

6/9/2010 6:50:08 PM

torrents kill your connection because your router cant handle the number of packets. Use the setup guide in utorrent to have it auto config the best settings. Also, if your router supports linux firmwares like tomato or ddwrt give them a shot and setup qos.

6/9/2010 6:56:30 PM

newsgroups son, newsgroups

^and pretty sure it's not the number of packets but the number of connections you end up with open while torrenting. it can easily be in the hundreds. turn the max number of connections down to something reasonable and i've never had any problems.. all you need is a few decent ones and you'll get good speeds

[Edited on June 9, 2010 at 7:00 PM. Reason : asdf]

6/9/2010 6:58:56 PM

its actually both. Lots of connections will cause the thing to run out of memory, lots of packets causes increased latency as the router's cpu struggles to route all the packets. If your connection just straight dies its probably the connection -> no memory problem. If your connection works, but is just slow as shit then its the too many packets -> routing latency.

6/9/2010 7:03:30 PM

I have one of the older TWC modem's (white with a blue standby button on top) and I noticed the other day that TWC now distributes black modems to customers (at least I saw this one guy returning his modem and it was black), and I was wondering if there is a discernible difference between these modems and should I call them and ask for a black one.

6/9/2010 7:08:21 PM

I returned my TWC modem the other day. the old one was black, the new one was like a indigo.

6/9/2010 7:23:14 PM

^^racist

6/9/2010 7:24:30 PM

Mines a scientific atlanta dpc2100r2. It has the phone ports for their phone service, but i dont use the phone service (it was just what they had when i first got service). I bitched and bitched because my shit was all slow as hell during peak times and they probably sent 3 or 4 people out to look at it, swapped the modem out 3 times (same model) and then eventually my problems went away. My guess is they finally upgraded the local node or whatever.

It was pretty gay too, b/c the first time i called i got to a local tier2 guy who was like "yeap, that nodes overloaded" and then they still made me swap modems and all that stuff. I called in again later because it hadn't been fixed after the new modem and they couldn't find my ticket. So they sent out another person, didn't fix it, called back in, etc.. etc... I mean it was pretty goddamned obvious it was a problem with their local network, but they just refused to admit it which really pissed me off. I dont care if it was going to take them a month or two to fix it, the thing that drove me nuts was the refused to own up.

But whatev. They did fix it and i haven't had any speed issues and its faster than the advertised speeds when i signed up. Considering theres 0 telco competition in maine, i'd say Im pretty lucky.

6/9/2010 7:30:14 PM

the black moto surfboards are newer.

there's a third element in regards to torrenting, upstream/upload speeds. not news to many on here, but if you choke your upstream, you lose the ability to send back ACKs on your downstream packets. thus, downstream greatly affected by maxing out your upstream speeds.

6/9/2010 7:32:41 PM

ack ack ack

6/9/2010 7:33:44 PM

i'm getting >500KB/s porn downloads for once

6/9/2010 7:46:24 PM

So should I call them and ask for a new modem or not? Will it help with upload speed, that is my main concern?

6/9/2010 7:56:24 PM

standard upload for rr is like 45KB/s. You aren't going to get much faster than that.

6/9/2010 8:02:36 PM

I just did a speed test and got 0.37 mb/s. I need a consistent 0.80 mb/s or better and I'd be set. How is the upload for At&t, is it any better?

6/9/2010 8:12:37 PM

the best i've ever speedtested for upload on TWC was 500Kb/s. normally it's around 370Kb/s

I had uverse for like a week, never got more than 300 Kb/s

6/9/2010 8:30:43 PM

1.2 MB/s // 180 KB/s with utorrent here

6/9/2010 8:53:50 PM

http://www.sbhacker.net and download to your hearts content!

6/9/2010 9:06:13 PM

Quote :

"i never get 1.5mb/s torrents for whatever reason I can speed test at 18 mb/s but can't get over 500kb/s of torrenting done at a time, and the max I've been able to download at a time from a non-torrent is like 800kb/s"

The reason that the speed test is so high is because of time warners turbo boost thing where you get really fast speed for the first 1 or 2 minutes and then it drops way off. You don't actually get that speed on an extended period of time.

6/9/2010 10:05:17 PM

big gap is where I powered down the router and restarted it.

[Edited on June 10, 2010 at 12:24 AM. Reason : s]

6/10/2010 12:24:23 AM

the router only or the modem? did you try it directly connected to the modem?

6/10/2010 10:12:45 AM

why'd you blur what you're torrenting?

6/10/2010 10:34:07 AM

'Cause it's two torrents of ladyboy site rips and two torrents of some queer-ass anime.

6/10/2010 10:51:28 AM

IT'S GLEE SEASON 1 OKAY

[Edited on June 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM. Reason : ^^^^ will try that tonight. Will do another firm ware update to the router.]

6/10/2010 11:00:07 AM

Thread title sounds hot.

Actual thread is a disappoint.

6/10/2010 1:38:58 PM