bittorrent speed way too low, what possible causes?

[Jan Welker]

Please forget what I just wrote. :-)

On 6/1/07, Jan Welker <jan.welker at gmail.com> wrote:
> If your upload rate is to high it has an influence on the download, too.
>
> 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.
> >
> > I tried with the ports open and closed, no difference.
> >
> > Is there something else that would limit the upload speed from
> > bittorrent?
> >
> > I don't mind running torrents overnight as seeds as nothing
> > else is happening anyway.  But at these speeds it hardly seems
> > worthwhile.
> >
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