Originally posted by: tweaker
How much are you uploading? For public torrents, it's usually a good idea to allocate at least 20-30 kB/s for upload, as it takes quite a bit going upstream to get the downstream connection to work well. If you try and choke your uploading, you won't download jack.
I believe I'm u/l at about 35 kb/s but that's only an estimation because, alas, the workforce owns my soul until 5... so my best guess will hafta be good enough until I get home. The slowness COULD be due to the fact that, in my house, there are 4 computers all linked together in a wireless network and the bandwidth is probably like "whooooooooooaaaaaa I'm cloooooooooogged".
As far as clients, I only use utorrent or bitcomet, and those work nicely.
How much are you uploading? For public torrents, it's usually a good idea to allocate at least 20-30 kB/s for upload, as it takes quite a bit going upstream to get the downstream connection to work well. If you try and choke your uploading, you won't download jack.
I believe I'm u/l at about 35 kb/s but that's only an estimation because, alas, the workforce owns my soul until 5... so my best guess will hafta be good enough until I get home. The slowness COULD be due to the fact that, in my house, there are 4 computers all linked together in a wireless network and the bandwidth is probably like "whooooooooooaaaaaa I'm cloooooooooogged".
As far as clients, I only use utorrent or bitcomet, and those work nicely.
Yeah, I've seen someone else in the thread mention using utorrent. I'm currently using the one you get from bittorrent.com and I dunno if that's good or bad or what. I'm considering switching. I may lose whatever I've already got in the transition but considering I've only managed to snag about 4%, no biggie.
By the way, thanks for being nice to me, tweaker. I'm always apprehensive and kind of ashamed when I show up as a newbie asking dur-dur-dur questions.
No one killed me and I appreciate that. 