So im using OSX 10.5 with Transmission. My UL speeds are limited to 5kb, and i have forwarded the port for Transmission. All said and done im LUCKY to see 250 kb/s DL on a well seeded torrent. I feel like this is quite a bit slower than it should be. Router is a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, Modem is TW supplied Motorola. Anyone have any input ???
-Ian
Try it with out the Buffalo router?
Like use a different one ? I dont have another one to try.
Plug directly into the cable modem with your PC and try again…
OK. Macbook is hardwired directly to the modem. Its def faster, but nothing crazy. Only what i would have expected from being wired. Still seems pretty slow.
You can’t really base speeds off of how fast a torrent is downloaded, even a well seeded torrent.
For example, earlier today I was pulling 14MB/s down on a torrent with 1 seeder, and after that finished I downloaded one with 135 seeders (or more after I started) and was seeing maybe 1MB/s.
Had nothing to do with my download speed as we have a constant 300+meg pipe from where I was downloading, but it just has to do with the people you are downloading from.
If you open your application folder, and go to utilities and open network utility go to the traceroute tab and do a tracert to something like google.com. You should be able to get an idea of your connection health there.
Or you can do a speedtest but I always find those to be inaccurate most the time.
Ok well i i did a traceroute speed test, sadly im a noob and i couldn’t understand any of it haha
Copy and paste my good friend.
Traceroute has started …
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.169.147
traceroute to www.l.google.com (64.233.169.147), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 buffalo.setup (192.168.11.1) 1.422 ms 0.899 ms 1.214 ms
2 74.77.96.1 (74.77.96.1) 9.982 ms 9.253 ms 9.796 ms
3 gig2-2-6.buffnyktn-pe01.nyroc.rr.com (98.0.2.125) 10.180 ms 9.512 ms 9.072 ms
4 ten9-1-1.buffnylkw-pe03.nyroc.rr.com (98.0.1.161) 10.972 ms 9.223 ms 8.831 ms
5 ten2-2-1.buffnylkw-pe01.nyroc.rr.com (98.0.1.173) 9.945 ms 9.057 ms 9.678 ms
6 ge-0-1-0.albynywav-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com (24.24.7.229) 18.372 ms 18.659 ms 19.676 ms
7 ae-5-0.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.74) 23.036 ms 22.009 ms 22.327 ms
8 ae-4-0.cr0.dca20.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.28) 27.576 ms 28.323 ms 28.784 ms
9 ae-1-0.pr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.165) 29.151 ms 28.873 ms 28.582 ms
10 66.109.9.66 (66.109.9.66) 28.560 ms 28.617 ms 28.745 ms
11 216.239.48.112 (216.239.48.112) 28.389 ms 31.700 ms 216.239.48.108 (216.239.48.108) 29.242 ms
12 64.233.175.111 (64.233.175.111) 28.706 ms 72.14.236.200 (72.14.236.200) 30.786 ms 64.233.175.219 (64.233.175.219) 28.697 ms
13 216.239.49.145 (216.239.49.145) 34.542 ms 35.773 ms 216.239.49.149 (216.239.49.149) 29.609 ms
14 yo-in-f147.1e100.net (64.233.169.147) 30.925 ms 28.980 ms 28.640 ms
that tells us nothing
LOL told me nothing either, thats what ryan had me do haha
wow 18mbps DL. Im usually lucky to peak 15 on speedtest:
ok, so at 18.67 megabits, you should be doing almost 2.5 megabytes/second MAXIMUM.
you’re saying that you are only doing 250 kilobytes (I am assuming you meant KB and not Kb in the OP)
seems that your connection speed is fine, just slow torrents
Hmmm Alright thanks.
I trust a trace route over a flash based website that are weighted by ISP’s to show a faster speed than is actually being delivered… lol.
Connection is fine, it’s the seeders that you are downloading off of that suck.