Internet download speed

remonskya
By remonskya

Any clue on the download speed from the internet
Any one is using news groups and can tell me how fast they can go?
Also how fast is peer to peer sharing
lets say how long will a 700 miga well seeded torrent take to download

By baldrick2dogs• 16 Aug 2008 07:22
Rating: 2/5
baldrick2dogs

Torrent downloads are notoriously slow - it depends on number of seeds/peers and how much bandwidth they are willing to allocate - I've had torrents take 2 weeks finish!

By qatar.living• 16 Aug 2008 06:41
Rating: 5/5
qatar.living

Let me explain to you...

if you have a 512 Kbps internet speed your Transfer rate will be 64KBytes and if you have 1 Mbps you will have a transfer rate of 128 KBytes.. now regarding your P2P usage there are so many factors which can effect ... the upload speed seetting of your peers.. if your peers have capped their upload speed that will effect your donwload speed ... there are limitation from your PC side as well, as Windows by default cannot scale beyond 100 Simultaneous TCP Sessions...if you are downloading two three files at same time and have lot of peers you will end up with same situation....

I have seen many people having 512 Kbps connection downloading 3 or 4 Movies downloading at same time and complaining about Qtel...!!! Oh God Internet is so Slow !!!!! ...

of course it will be slow .. you have a limited bandwidth and you are using it fully for p2p and nothing is left for your browsing.. What else are u expecting

By aikon• 15 Aug 2008 23:33
aikon

if you choose 512 kbps package

for download = 512 Kbps equal to 64 KBps rough

for upload = 90 Kbps equal to 11,25 KBps rough

b=bit ; B=Byte

1 character is 1 bit.

By aikon• 15 Aug 2008 23:29
aikon

miga or mega ?

By raZor• 15 Aug 2008 22:38
raZor

hai guys,

I seriously got some problems with my Internet connection. I got 512 kbs and my torrent dl speed is just around 10 kbs. But with private trackers , I get around 60 kbs. Can someone help me.

By 666• 15 Aug 2008 20:49
666

Torrent download has a lot to do with its engine's settings. I don't know much about it but after fiddling with settings right now my total download speed is over 120 KB/s. Having 1mb connection.

By hotandsticky• 15 Aug 2008 20:32
hotandsticky

Since internet came to Qatar in 1996/97 downloads speeds have been pathetic and still are relative to what you see in the USA. Just got back from USA and the internet was faster than I could work. Very frustrating to have to wait and wait with the new wireless modem. Also why oh why did Qtel managment opt for this incredibly inconvenient 800 QR USB modem that hangs by a wire out of the USB port when PCS data cards have been in existence for years? data cards are compact and a FAR better option that USB modems. Classic QTel in making us all pay for the USB , THEN bring out the data cards at a later date. Right? That way we all have to shell out 1600 QR instead of 800.

By Muhammed12• 15 Aug 2008 20:07
Muhammed12

1.6 Mbits?..sure ur internet is not provided by Qtel.

Guess ur using Satellite Internet.

By Muhammed12• 15 Aug 2008 20:04
Muhammed12

*if u use download managers

By remonskya• 15 Aug 2008 20:00
Rating: 2/5
remonskya

big down grade since my download speed is 1.6 miga/ sec now!!

By Muhammed12• 15 Aug 2008 19:58
Rating: 5/5
Muhammed12

if u got 512Kbps, ur download speed is 60kbps. it goes till 65 or 70 sometimes if u download managers.

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