Bit Torrent Is So Fast

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10-09-2003, 04:07 PM
MetroStars

Now iam a patient guy i never expecet 2 get a new move straight away or any movie 4 that matter...

But Bit Torrent, sweet mother of jesus, is so fast that u can normally get a movie in a day...

wud sum 1 explain how it is so fast....
10-09-2003, 04:42 PM
Gre1

Are u trying to be funny MetroStars, because most people complain it is slow and 1 day is not fast for a movie unless your on 56k
10-09-2003, 04:48 PM
MetroStars

nope iam not kidding, and iam not on dial up either...
10-09-2003, 04:52 PM
NotoriousBIC

Gre1 are you kidding?

http://orw37.oli.tudelft.nl/Bic/Bittorrent.jpg
Now this is of course an extreme example, but if your connection is good and the torrent is seeded well, you WILL get high speeds.
Lots of people have commented that it maxes out their connection easily.

The only thing that is faster for me is newsgroups.
10-09-2003, 04:53 PM
Gre1

1 day is not fast for a movie, I have about 640/128 and for a 700mb movie that is well seeded or has a lot of peer on it (but not overcrowed) I can get that in 3hrs.
10-09-2003, 05:01 PM
NotoriousBIC

Ah, lol, I misunderstood. I thought you said Bittorrent is slow, but evidently you meant that d/ling a film in a day is slow. My apologies...
10-09-2003, 05:07 PM
Gre1

Where do u live? I want that connection speed? I am going to kill u and take it? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: <_< <_< Damn, that's fast I need to get that do u have T1-T3 which one.
10-09-2003, 05:09 PM
NotoriousBIC

T1 and I live in...

*NotoriousBIC looks in his atlas

A Palistinian refugee camp! :lol:
10-09-2003, 05:10 PM
Gre1

:lol: :lol: :lol: I have a idea how about u transfer u ISP to my house and send me your modem and u pay the bill, how bout it? :lol: :lol:
10-09-2003, 08:25 PM
NotoriousBIC

Then you would need to transfer your home to here, 'cause it's a fixed line! :lol:
10-09-2003, 09:32 PM
Dapadipz

@NotoruisBIC

:o How Much Do You Pay For That Connection *drools*
10-09-2003, 09:36 PM
NotoriousBIC

Well, about 10 euros per month, but it's an university connection :rolleyes:

However I did manage to get the university sponsoring for the optical line they layed out here...
10-09-2003, 09:43 PM
ultimatejester

:o BIC whts the average speed rate that u get on bittorrent and how long duz it take u 2 download 700mb movie of a file(if the torrent is well seeded)

edit: @Metrostars, it depends on your internet connection and the upload rate others are willing to give ya.
10-09-2003, 09:48 PM
Skank

Not Long :P
10-09-2003, 09:50 PM
NotoriousBIC

That really depends on the amount of seeding bandwidth.

Things like anime are generally well seeded and I average 200 kB/s

Movies however are generally not seeded well until they are a few days old (I mostly get new movies) so that's an average of 100 kB/s.
As Gre1 posted it's rare for a movie not to finish in 3 hours.

BTW: the screenshot I posted is from Wolfenstein: Enemy Teritory which ID software released using Bittorrent. They obviously had some real bandwidth backing that one up...
10-10-2003, 12:11 AM
nahan

I would like to say I max out my connection practically whenever I use Bittorrent.
And I can usuallyt get a movie in 1-3 hours on a typical download.
It all depends on the amount of seeds and your connection type.

For those of you who dont know how bittorrent works or is able to achieve these speeds.It takes a file and breaks it up into peices,and as each peer downloads they can also upload the peices they have downloaded to others peers.
Usually bittorrent works on a tit for tat basis, meaning most can only download as fast as they let others upload from them.At one point or another.
Once the whole file has completed download the peer/person becomes a seed.
Distributed copies roughly translates into peices of the film one is conected on a percentage base ,before it becomes a seed.
10-10-2003, 03:16 AM
Gre1

Damn, I just really focused on how fast that speed is, 2000kB/s+ that is a lot but u say it's a university so I see how that can be afforded.
10-10-2003, 03:26 AM
ScotchGuy

I don't see how you guys get such fast connections. I usually get a speed of about 2 kb/s and most of the time it's not downloading at all. Just sitting there idle and the files I'm trying to get have tons of seeds.

My friend was downloading the exact same file as myself,

His Speed: 150 kb/s
Mine: 2 kb/s
10-10-2003, 06:59 AM
Switeck

Quote:

Originally posted by NotoriousBIC@9 October 2003 - 12:09
T1 and I live in...

A T-1's speed is only a miserable 1.5 megabit/sec -- or about 180 KB/sec MAX.
Your connection HAS to be a serious fraction of a T-3 line.
10-10-2003, 01:46 PM
MetroStars

Ok iknow this is not wot u wud call super fast but, Bit Torrent never drops below 45kb for me... so i get my movies pretty dam quick...

http://www.uploadit.org/files/101003-btspeeds.gif
10-10-2003, 02:30 PM
NotoriousBIC

Quote:

Originally posted by Switeck+10 October 2003 - 08:59--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Switeck @ 10 October 2003 - 08:59)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-NotoriousBIC@9 October 2003 - 12:09
T1 and I live in...

A T-1's speed is only a miserable 1.5 megabit/sec -- or about 180 KB/sec MAX.
Your connection HAS to be a serious fraction of a T-3 line. [/b][/quote]
You're right of course, but it's also shared with 200 people.
So I can never claim to have a T3 connection, but T1 averages out nicely (and sometimes waaay up as the screenshot shows)