bittorrent speed way too low, what possible causes?

[Dylan Semler]

On 6/1/07, stan <stanl at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I used torrent to get the F7 live CD and DVD images.  And then let it
> run overnight to seed.  I've tested my system with the online speed
> sites and my upload is ~540 KB/sec.  My service from Cox says 512 -
> 2MB/sec.
>
> Yet bittorrent-curses maxed out at around 70 KB/sec.  I used the
> max_upload_rate = 0 to let it go at the maximum rate.


Are you sure your units are correct?  ~540 k bits / 8 bits/byte = ~67.5 k
bytes

Dylan

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