Downloading torrents

[StreetEndBoy]

How long on average should it take to download audio and movies?

[Garamond]

This depends on so many things. Whether you have dial-up or broadband, how many you're downloading from, how busy THEY are, how busy the internet in general is.

But as a rough guide I'd say a 3mb audio track - about 40 seconds on broadband and about 5-6 minutes on dial-up.

A movie - about 1-half to 2-half hours on broadband. On dial-up - forget it.

[StreetEndBoy]

Garamond. I am on 4MB broadband and the audio (albums ) take hours and the movies 10+ hours. I use BitTorrent to download.

[Garamond]

Blimey that's a long time. I don't use BitTorrent, just LimeWire and I get much better results. 10 hours for a film is approaching dial-up speed.

Try this link to test your connection speed.

http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/

[fo3nix]

Try using azureus instead, and do the stuff it says in their wiki like the good settings page:
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Good_sett ings

Also, with the stuff you're downloading, how many seeders and peers are there? And where are you getting the torrents from?

[boink]

i use azureus, and it probably takes me 4 hours to download movies on a 1mb line, i do usually only download from those which have 15+ seeds tho. and my share ration is pretty high

[huntr2]

Remeber the speed of a download in Bitorrent is directly related to the amount of seeders and leechers. If you have a popular file with a high amount of seeders and a low amount of leechers then you should get the file a lot quicker.

[StreetEndBoy]

Thanks all! Have gone onto LimeWire and this seems a bit faster. What speed should my download rate be? Mine seems to be around the 35Kb/s mark. The more hosts the better on this site is that correct?

[fo3nix]

You hvaen;t said what your broadband speed is. Do you have a 1Mb line, 2Mb, etc.? Also if possible, it's good to know your upload speed too which is usually much lower.

For example, I'm currently on a 2Mb line, so I get the following approx. maximum speeds:
download: 230kbps
upload: 25kbps

[StreetEndBoy]

fo3nix I'm on 4Mb broadband. Are there any options I need to change to increase speed?

[fo3nix]

The link above contain most of them... just read some of the main points there and change them.

Go here and do a speed test too:
http://www.speedtest.net/index.php (choose the london server)

You should probably be getting about 2000kbps download, and maybe 384kbps upload or so. Perhaps try it on a few different days because sometimes it can be unusually slow if there's a problem somewhere on the network.