Sky Broadband and Bit Torrent

[mark19632]

Hi,

I had Sky broadband installed last week after a lot of phaffing about.

Everything is going well, no drop out and speed seems good, apart from torrent seem a little slow. I have seen it go to about 250Kbps buy usally it sits around 50 which is obviously a little slower than I would like.

Anyone else on Sky get decent speeds?

Thanks,

Mark

[Funkstar]

probably due to traffic shaping. Torrents can eat a lot of bandwidth so a lot of ISPs limit the bandwidth on that protocal

[Leepox]

but that speed is reasonably fast isnt it?

[mark19632]

but that speed is reasonably fast isnt it?

I used to get 100 regually on tiscali and they restricted it down to 1 MB for torrents. Was hoping for a bit more as now I'm on this 8meg connection.

I've assumed it is shaped, I just want to get and idea of how much shaping is done. That fact thata I have had 200 is odd indeed.

[eggenstein]

I used to get 100 regually on tiscali and they restricted it down to 1 MB for torrents. Was hoping for a bit more as now I'm on this 8meg connection.

I've assumed it is shaped, I just want to get and idea of how much shaping is done. That fact thata I have had 200 is odd indeed.

I'm on tiscali and was having problems with torrents too.

However (I use utorrent) I told it use port 443 and now it isn't affected!

[smegger040588]

hi i am thinking of changing to tiscali here in northen irelands i use but torrent to download quite alot of fan subbed manga so what are they screwing about with? cheers

edit sorry for the highjack just worried lol

[g0at]

i find it ok, not had it long tho decided to switch due to the cost,
it is a little slower that i expected but for the price i can't complain really

[Kumagoro]

Have you set your own port or used the standard bit torrent one? Also you can force encryption so they cant traffic shape via packet inspection. Worth a try.

[PeteBest]

Which Sky package are you on? I get around 500kb/s from torrents sometimes. I'm on the MAX package, but my line is quite noisy, so I'm only connected at 6mb/s

[chuckskull]

Try using a client with protocol encryption, like uTorrent or azerus(and remembering to turn it on). might help a little.