[Liberator]

How fast do you folk usually get on torrent downloads?  Note, this is a purely intellectual question and not meant to turn into a flamewar.

I'm on an uncapped(3mb) charter cable and I average 35-50kbps once it gets going and I was wondering if that's average or if I'm slow.

[Ransom]

I rarely get very fast speeds so I generally avoid BT. Last time I tried I was getting around 8-10k/s (on a 512k ADSL connection).

[Kamikaze]

Depends on the popularity of the torrent. I get 1-4 kbps quite often with low popularity torrents. I usually don't get into the 35-50 kbps range even with a decent torrent. I'm on a cable connection.

That's why I try to use university http servers for downloading big files like OS cds, I can get 300 kbps on one of those easily if it's close.

[Shrike]

If there's a lot of peers, I can hit over 100.  Right now Bleach 11 is going at ~55k/s, so a little slow.

[Rictor]

Usually 5-30 kb/s for the types of files I download, which are generally around a gig, give or take. However, I often get short bursts of 50+ kb/s and on smaller, very popular files (such as game demos over at filerush.com) its not uncommon to download above 100kb/s and sometimes even several hundred.

For example, a 1.2 gig file (which shall not be named) recently finished, averaging about 10 kb/s I'de say. But at the same time, the Silent Hill 4 demo from Filerush.com averaged about 400 kb/s.

note: I'm behind a firewall, so, uh, take that into account.

[an0n]

Most everything I download is at around 90, which is maxing my connection.

[Stealth]

firewall shouldn't make a difference really in terms of speed.

if a torrent doesn't have a lot of seeders, i don't download it.  usually i'm around 35 or 36 kb/sec though. i always only torrent at night, so it downloads/uploads while i'm sleeping.

[Fury]

Depends greatly on number of peers and their upload speed. At times, I can get easily over 500 KB/sec, but usually it's more like 100-200 KB/sec.

[vyper]

1Mbit connection, I can get anything from 10K/s to 89K/s

[Swamp_Thing]

On a side note, have you heard how Shareconnector got closed down by the dutch authorities? They never learn...
P2P sites are like mushrooms, they feed on this kind of sh*t!!


I never get my speed over 60kbs, and that happens only when i have several d/l at a time. On one file alone i´m lucky if i get it over 30kbs. I´m on Cable here, btw.

[vyper]

Is it sad that I can remember the glory days of napster?

[Stealth]

no, because not only can I do the same, but i can remember the days before Napster.  the days you actually *gasps* bought a CD or tape.


Closing down Suprnova and other sites really hit bittorrent hard though.

[Janos]

298k/s just a moment ago.

It was a porn torrent. :v

[pyro-manic]

I can get anything from 1 to 60k/s, but usually towards the lower end of that range. I'm on 512 ADSL.

BTW, I still usually buy stuff rather than dl it. I prefer to have something physical I can hold, rather than just a folder on my hard disk. My downloads are mostly programs I can't afford or movies I don't want to buy (either they're films I don't want to watch more than once, or they're ones I can't find in the shops).

[Taristin]

Depending on the torrent, I've had everything from 90b/s to 190KB/s

[BlackDove]

That's my cap, I reach it always when there are more seeds than peers, but I average at 100-150.

[Taristin]

A gig and a half, eh? You'll be there for a litle bit.

[Fury]

Two things BD.
1) Wouldn't it have been easier to make a screencapture of just the BT window? (Alt + PrntScrn)
2) Mainline?

[Scuddie]

It really depends on where you get it.  On TorrentBits, I almost always got 200+K/s.  However, on SuprNova, I rarely hit 30K/s.  Just goes to show you that private communities are ALWAYS better.

[Nico]

depends, but usually between 20 and 50 on a 512 DSL.
The only BT I have going now is... well, stuck on "connecting to peers"