bittorrent speed way too low, what possible causes?

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:36 AM -0700 6/1/07, stan 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.

That's about my max, but I know it's limited by my DSL connection, so no
help there.


>I tried with the ports open and closed, no difference.

That seems odd.  With the ports closed, how could it upload at all?


>Is there something else that would limit the upload speed from
>bittorrent?

Dunno.  Lack of customers who want your bits?  Limits by Cox on BitTorrent?
Competition with other Cox customers?  Math error?  Did you try restarting
the client?  (Sometimes that gets me a better group of peers.)


>I don't mind running torrents overnight as seeds as nothing
>else is happening anyway.  But at these speeds it hardly seems
>worthwhile.

70 KB/s * 3600 s = 246 MB/h.  That seems worthwhile.
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