Sick Of Slow Downloads?

[nsane]

like im ganna pay $30-40 a month for the internet, yeah right

ill just wait for some company to finally realize their over chargin like a mofo, which is why so very few ppl have dsl or cable, and make a change for the better (yet some idiots still pay $25/m for aol )

[oZone]

Just try overnet if you don't like emule.

[Switeck]

Originally posted by Flash13@22 December 2003 - 00:25
Limiting uploads makes more sources available quicker;

limit your uploads to about 3kbs per user (ie, if you can get 2 users both with 3.1kbs uploads to them, limit your uploads to 2 users)
-this way you can also limit you downloads fairly

oh, just so you know, this is not applicable to any of the download networks that support partial download sharing (where you share parts of a file that you've already got, even if you dont have the entire thing)

I've said the same thing multiple times.

It's ALSO important to limit your upload BANDWIDTH in KL++ as well.

If not, your connection can be overloaded with uploads to the point it cannot reply quickly enough to your downloads SYN ACK (send more?) messages. This causes download speeds to fall, stall, and just plain disconnect. It also causes really bursty upload speeds and lots of packet loss -- where even data sent out for the uploads has to be sent out possibly MULTIPLE times to get through successfully. Not good.

KL++'s setup wizard can set a pretty good value for upload bandwidth and can be re-run if you want to change it later. I also use small *.REG files for on-the-fly changing of my upload bandwidth for even more control.

For reasonable internet surfing, and to allow some spare upload bandwidth for those moments when you're downloading faster than 100 KB/sec, leave about 20-40 kilobits/sec (2.5-5 KB/sec) upload bandwidth free.

Downloads NEED to be set considerably higher than uploads because even downloads that are only ATTEMPTING to connect OR searching count AGAINST your max downloads at once value! Couple that too with the many very slow uploaders, and the max downloads can be set almost to max (of 50) if you're able to download at >100 KB/sec.

EVEN on partial file sharing networks, uploads still need to be able to go at 1 KB/sec each so each upload chunk gets done within a reasonable amount of time. Partial file sharing still tends to require 128 KB or larger chunks of the file before any of it is shared. And 128 KB would take just over 2 minutes at 1 KB/sec. Larger files like movies have chunksizes of 1/2 MB (512 KB) or 1 MB (1,024 KB) which would take quite a while at 1 KB/sec.

Lastly, assuming everyone can download at least 3 KB/sec, it is FASTER in total to have fewer uploads:
So if you have ~13 KB/sec total upload bandwidth (pretty common for 128 kilobit/sec upload max broadband), then...
With 4 uploads, average upload speed would be about 3.2 KB/sec. (12.8 KB/sec effective total)
With 10 uploads, average upload speed would be about 1.1 KB/sec. (11 KB/sec effective total)
With 20 uploads, average upload speed would be about 0.5 KB/sec. (10 KB/sec effective total)

This is due to the overhead costs for EACH additional upload plus TCP/ip packet overheads.

[bigdawgfoxx]

I get like 5Kbs max on bittornet.....it pissses me off.

[Embryodead]

Originally posted by nsane@1 January 2004 - 17:21
like im ganna pay $30-40 a month for the internet, yeah right

ill just wait for some company to finally realize their over chargin like a mofo, which is why so very few ppl have dsl or cable, and make a change for the better (yet some idiots still pay $25/m for aol )

LOL...We pay 19.95 here in Cali. for Cable modem.

[ZeroTolerance]

if your on dial up just highligh or click on the download your downloading and go to start>run> then type in ping and press ok and it will increase your speed a little bit.

[whozyodaddy]

Originally posted by Embryodead+5 January 2004 - 17:32--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Embryodead &#064; 5 January 2004 - 17:32)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-nsane@1 January 2004 - 17:21
like im ganna pay &#036;30-40 a month for the internet, yeah right

ill just wait for some company to finally realize their over chargin like a mofo, which is why so very few ppl have dsl or cable, and make a change for the better (yet some idiots still pay &#036;25/m for aol )

LOL...We pay 19.95 here in Cali. for Cable modem. [/b][/quote]
oh, I live in calli and online, yea it&#39;s &#036;20, I use comcast (you do too.. monopoly) and have digital cable, which is like &#036;40

[phAnt0m buRn]

AOL is a rip off over here in B) Great B) Britain.

£27 a month. Bloody hell.

I use ntl:home at £18 a month, I think. It used to be £15 though.

The only prob is that it is either:
"the slowest form of the fastest connection"
or
"the fastest form of the slowest connection"
at only 150 Kb/s.

BB is expensive anywhere though. I did here of one ISP who were offering it dirt cheap/free but you got totally bombarded with advertisements and had to click on them to keep the service free.

[cwctv]

phAnt0m buRn
I quite agree here in UK its shit they want your money yes but don&#39;t give you the service for it like you on 150, Ntl and all the rest want to wake up abit and look around the world we are WAY behind even so called 3rd world countries have better services,then to cap it all off many are now CAPPING your up/downloads a day, and get rid of BT (British Telecom) its them keeping it high.

[mogadishu]

Originally posted by Embryodead+5 January 2004 - 12:32--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Embryodead @ 5 January 2004 - 12:32)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-nsane@1 January 2004 - 17:21
like im ganna pay &#036;30-40 a month for the internet, yeah right

ill just wait for some company to finally realize their over chargin like a mofo, which is why so very few ppl have dsl or cable, and make a change for the better (yet some idiots still pay &#036;25/m for aol&nbsp; )

LOL...We pay 19.95 here in Cali. for Cable modem. [/b][/quote]
how fast is it?