On a 4 Gbyte file with a few hundred seeds and leeachers I get 450 KB/s easy. Have fun! Me? On a small file with only one seed it might take me a week to get it. If they have a good speed (go see it and try your fast torrent file) then change ISP – that is the long term solution. The safest thing to do is to ask around friends and see the speeds they get with other ISPs.
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But if it is now very fast using the new settings on Microtorrent then your ISP is using crude throttling and you have bypassed it – until they decide to upgrade their throttling.
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If you are still showing slow download (less than 50KB/s then your ISP is using smart thottling. It may be fast (say 400 Kbytes per second on a standard 3 Mbit ADSL Broadband, or it may be slow – less than 40 Kbytes per second) Now turn on obfuscation and change the UDP and TCP ports to womething weird like 4552 restart Microtorrent (open those ports in your firewall if you need to and test them to make sure it works). Note the download speed after 15 minutes.
Try to run it with defualt ports (ie as installed first time). Pick any popular torrent from Minova -one with hundreds of seeds and leechers. PS You can test throttling by trying Microtorrent with no obfuscation. In itself Xunlei does not casue problems, but some of the ads it runs from third parties are said to drop spyware.
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So it may help – try it -or it may be worse than a standard client.Ĭommonsense really – when somebody tells you that you can buy some apples at 1/20 the price of the market – do you go and buy? If somebody sells you a car at 1/4 of the price listed are you not suspicious? There’s no such thing as a free luch. OR your “ratio” on the private tracker will fall lower and lower and the speeds will get slower and slower and finally stop. Second problem is thatUnless you set Xunlei to share the files then many clients will ban you and not connect to you.
Public torrents like Minova or Piratebay should be OK, but more and more traffic is now via the private trackers. The trackers are usually the private ones having the best torrents. Two things against that – first problem is that some trackers and some clients now ban Xunlei as a leech (downlaod but no upload). There is also a problem of Xunleis default settings which I am told do not let it share – ie it is a leech machine. That is bad because then your rapidshare downlaods will be hit as well. In other cases, the ISP even checks port 80 and does the same throttling. To bypass this throttling, Xunlei uses port 80 which is the port your browser uses. Comcast in the US were the first to do this, and that case is in court, but many “cheap” ISPs now do the same. Throttling is when your ISP detects P2P protocol on standard BT ports they automatically reduce your downlaod speed to something rediculously slow. What it does do is to attempt to bypass “throttling” of BT by your ISP. Any decent bt client like Microtorrent will find all available up to the limit of connections that your OS (usually 10 or 20 connections for X, though there is a hack to remove that limit). It does not increase your speed by finding more sources – that is impossible. I think people are misunderstanding Xunlei.