Download Problem With Torrents - Download speed fell down suddenly!

My connection is approx 40kbps, which means a max download speed of 5kBps. I've been trying to download a particular file from torrents and it was going ok till last night when all of a sudden the speed fell down drastically. Now, it's giving me 0.0 - 1.0 kBps at any point of time ! I haven't done anything different nor installed anything new that's eating up the bandwidth. I've used both BitComet and uTorrent and it's still working terribly. Of course the file I'm downloading is very healthy, with 13 seeds and more than 50 peers. Also regular download speeds haven't changed in firefox ... I'm still getting 5kBps in that. Any idea why this is happening? I was getting 4-5 kBps speed initially and now, it's just ridiculous.

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Hello abhiram,



Well, I'd have to assume that the tracker is down for the time being. Since you made sure there are enough seeders and leechers, and since your connection seems to be otherwise alright, I can't think of any reason other than the tracker being down.


In most torrent software, there are icons that show the status of your tracker. Perhaps you could take a look at them. Or better yet, visit the tracker Website itself and see if something is wrong there. Most tracker Websites provide a column where users can talk to each other, and chances are very high someone has the same problem you have. You'd likely find a solution there as well


But even if everything is fine, sometimes torrents play this kind of dirty tricks on us. They'd just slow down to a crawl for no detectable reason. The solution is, if all else fails, to give them time ... probably a day or two at most.


Good luck downloading

 

 

 

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hve you considered on which part of the file are you downloading..
most torrent users assume that the speed will aways be good if there are more seeders and uploaders and if the file torrent is healty..

well it is just the piece of cake but there is a more complicated slice that most people ignore.. not all seeders and uploaders have the same exact content or pieces on their harddrives..

thing is.. the segment blocks that you are download maybe own by too few people and that the downloaders have gone so big in population..

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here is what to be consider in torrent download.
1. torrent health more seeders/uploaders
2. seeders and uploaders net speed
3. your net speed.. dial ups or people with less than 50kpbs may choke down using torrent accelaration..
no matter how many peers you got, the max speed you can have for all of your connections is still dedicated by your ISP and same goes to priority level. this is the advantage of the DSL and broadband users, the speed cap can be increase by splitting chunks.
4. the file segment that you are downloading must have a high ratio or availability..
[i have been in a situation with a very healty torrent and i reached 45kbps on my 100kbps wireless connection only to go down to 1.5kbps for the last 17chunks. Reason is that out of the 40+ uploaders i got, there are only 3 persons having that 17 chunks i need.

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you must also check the tracker since the client cannot get new connection list if there was problem with the trackers..

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The tracker is the one which tells me how many seeders, peers and leechers are available for a particular torrent right? It seems to be working ok, in the sense that it's connecting and retrieving the IP addresses.



Yea, I guess that's what I'll do. I think my system needs a break anyways .



Well, the file has reached 57% and there are quite a number of people who have more than that.

But I think the problem is with the number of leechers which seems to have increased enormously. Now there are almost thrice the number of leechers than there were when I started.

I think the best thing to do right now would be to just forget about it for a while and then try it out in a few days. Thanks for your help guys .

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beats me..
i was on 97.78% for 5 days now..

there are 17 people who have full data and that segmet is present in 46 chunks around me peer swarm..
problem though is that 15 of them is on dial up..

well that is what my torrent client says.. dial up speeds...

i ended up as one of the uploaders instead of the downloader..

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