QUOTE(Ashim @ Jan 15 2007, 10:43 PM) [snapback]75336[/snapback]
The moderator is right...even when the torrents on public trackers have good number of seeders, the download speed is slow...What really matters is that how many seeders are at the closest distance[/b]
There is a major issue which everyone here seems to have missed. First of all both seeds and peers will upload. Seeders/peers on public trackers do seed but 90% of them limit their upload to a very low speed since ratio is not an issue on these trackers. Hence you get bad speeds on these. Whereas seeders/peers on private trackers generally upload at max so as to get their ratios in order before the torrent gets fewer and fewer peers which would result in no uploads and hence a lower ratio.
As for seeds/peers on your LAN segment - Has anyone setup an FTP or a webserver on his pc and asked someone in his LAN segment to download of it? I'd bet you would get the same speeds i.e. 21 kBps. If you get 60 kBps then Airtel has f**ked up. Do let me know.
The moderator is right...even when the torrents on public trackers have good number of seeders, the download speed is slow...What really matters is that how many seeders are at the closest distance[/b]
There is a major issue which everyone here seems to have missed. First of all both seeds and peers will upload. Seeders/peers on public trackers do seed but 90% of them limit their upload to a very low speed since ratio is not an issue on these trackers. Hence you get bad speeds on these. Whereas seeders/peers on private trackers generally upload at max so as to get their ratios in order before the torrent gets fewer and fewer peers which would result in no uploads and hence a lower ratio.
As for seeds/peers on your LAN segment - Has anyone setup an FTP or a webserver on his pc and asked someone in his LAN segment to download of it? I'd bet you would get the same speeds i.e. 21 kBps. If you get 60 kBps then Airtel has f**ked up. Do let me know.