04-15-2004, 03:51 PM
I feel your pain. I'm not exactly sure why I'm not downloading very quickly. I'm currently hooked into the University of Washington network which consists of 8+ (there were 8 about 7 years ago, at least) T3 lines. It's 8:45 in the morning so I would expect nearly NO bandwidth issues from the network and yet I'm not downloading at all (0KB/s).
For me, the big thing has been that it is always fluctuating. Sometimes I download at 0 KB/s, other times I download at ~15 KB/s. Once last night, I was downloading at 180 KB/s and uploading at 300+ KB/s simultaneously. So I'm obviously not maxing out my connection with the measely 3 KB/s download I'm currently getting.
Similarly, I can download and upload to other sites at nearly 1 megabyte per second right now, so it's obviously not a problem with the network being busy. Perhaps Bit Torrent just doesn't work with the UW very well? :(
For me, the big thing has been that it is always fluctuating. Sometimes I download at 0 KB/s, other times I download at ~15 KB/s. Once last night, I was downloading at 180 KB/s and uploading at 300+ KB/s simultaneously. So I'm obviously not maxing out my connection with the measely 3 KB/s download I'm currently getting.
Similarly, I can download and upload to other sites at nearly 1 megabyte per second right now, so it's obviously not a problem with the network being busy. Perhaps Bit Torrent just doesn't work with the UW very well? :(
-TheDragoon