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So that's what a decent download feels like!

By squigs (Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 05:29:01 AM EST) (all tags)

Using usenet binaries rather than Bittorrent was recommended by a friend. I hadn't used it fora while but I thought I might as well sign up with a provider to see what I could get.

Wow! That's fast!

480KB/s pretty much sustained transfer. Bittorrent rarely gets as high as 40KB/s, and usually hovers around 20KB/s or so. Probably something to do with the asynchronous bandwidth virgintlewest provide.

So, after about an hour I'd already exceeded the 1GB trial allowance, After two hours I'd downloaded most of the remaining glactica episodes and a couple of episodes of Lost.

Perhaps I should threated to cancel my Cable deal, and see if I get offered a discount for staying.

I'm surprised VoD hasn't become more mainstream. There's plenty of bandwidth for a standard def video stream here. Much better quality than Virgin's current overcompressed offering at least.

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That is very fast by gazbo

(2.00 / 0) #1 Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 05:40:49 AM EST

Though I do wonder why you're getting such crappy torrent speeds. On popular TV torrents I usually get over 100KBps on a 2Mbit pipe, with upload speed choked to 15KBps to not saturate my upstream.

At the risk of asking the obvious, have you forwarded the appropriate torrent ports?

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BitTorrent by squigs (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 05:52:01 AM EST

I have no idea. It does occasionally go up to 200Kb/s but never stays there for long. Maybe I have a rubbishy client, or maybe Peerguardian is getting in the way or something but it's never been good for any sort of time since I got this connection.

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: Could be that your ISP by Herring (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 05:54:47 AM EST

are fucking bastards.
Mine aren't and I get speeds up to and beyond what gazbo is getting. But then I don't torrent a lot - I found I never got around to actually watching the stuff.

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sounds to me by joh3n (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 06:01:35 AM EST

like your ISP is throttling bittorrent bandwith....

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I've been using by blixco (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 06:13:06 AM EST

UseNext's service (and windows client) which does thismulti-threaded download trick that is HUGE fast. Just downloaded $album from $DJ in $seconds.

I dig it.
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I get the same problem w/ BT by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 06:28:18 AM EST

So god-damned slow, that it's not worth the wait.

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(2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 09:51:20 AM EST

Usenet is teh cyber-future!

As of January 1st my ISP (Rogers) has somehow made BitTorrenting suck. I'd been happily using Azureus with random ports and full encryption up until then, enjoying downloads of around 150 kb/s, then everything turned to shit (~7 kb/s).

Tired of waiting for Azureus to up the ante in the arms race, I went back to Usenet on my brother's advice.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da.

alas, I've fallen out of usenet by Phil Urich (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 07:56:37 PM EST

My ISP (Telus) used to have crazy-good retention and propagation, but nowadays it's unfortunately somewhat hit-and-miss. I had good times way back when I first moved into residence, though, where I could take advantage of Shaw cable speeds connected to the Telus servers, the best of both worlds (Shaw may have the pipeline, but their own servers are teh gimped).

Furthermore I've been unsatisfied with most of the Linux newsgroup clients I've found (I was unimpressed with all the Windows ones back in the day until I found newsbin; perhaps I should try installing it in WINE). I was actually using a client on my older computer but now I forget what it was called, damn my ailing memory.

Your heroic account inspires me, however! I may attempt to rejoin this new/old bastion of internet piracy.

: My setup by squigs (2.00 / 0) #9 Fri Mar 09, 2007 at 12:17:29 AM EST

Yeah. I think ntl is pretty hopeless with retention as well. Decided I could afford Giganews instead.
Can't remember what I used when I was running Linux. Although I didn't care so much for multipart binaries back then so I probably found tin worked. Grabbit on Windows fits my needs.

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