newly released torrents always very slow?

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:09 pm

any newly released torrent will have an incredibly slow download speed for me,
all my settings are fine as all other torrents download with a high speed

for example i'm currently downloading the new 24 episode at around 5kB and uploading at around 15/20kB
though if i waited until later the speed would be higher

everyone doesn't have this problem as when i started downloading there were 18 seeds, now there's 191 and i'm at 2% complete

any thoughts?

thanks

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:17 pm

Usually the original seeder would use the superseeding option on their client. It would look for those in the swarm that are uploading to other peers at the highest speeds and give them preference. That way the file parts gets sent out to others in the swarm faster.

Is it possible your upload speed isn't as fast as some are? I upload at around 85KBs (approx 650kbits) and don't have many problems with speed down. Once there are a few seeders its always picks up.

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:35 am

He did state that he uploaded in the low speeds of 15-20, thus that is most likely his problem when it comes to this. Since when there are few seeds one usually gets 1/1 ratio or thereabout I guess you are just unlucky.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:35 am

This is the reason i use google moderators for televized series like 24.I search open directorys like this;

intitle:"index of" "parent directory" "last modified" 24 .avi -faq -htm -html -asp

24 will not be enough because you will get 1843554 results but you know wich episode you lookin for so include that with the search.

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:05 am

it happens to me all the time

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:46 pm

do you have a router?

if so, check out this:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/223583

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:16 am

yup, it's always a problem for me

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:33 am

These guys either never have had or have forgotten what it was like using a 14k modem smoked out after a hard session on a BBS Wink

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:16 am

LSF-Seth wrote:

These guys either never have had or have forgotten what it was like using a 14k modem smoked out after a hard session on a BBS Wink

lol I still haven't forgotten my 2400 baud modem. Sad

[Sure don't miss it either] haha

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:23 am

i think it happens because the torrent hasn't got any seeds. Question

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:25 am

Yooble wrote:

i think it happens because the torrent hasn't got any seeds. Question

No Yooble, its usually because there is only one seed mainly. No seeds it would not download at all!

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:38 pm

Omega50 wrote:

Yooble wrote:

i think it happens because the torrent hasn't got any seeds. Question

No Yooble, its usually because there is only one seed mainly. No seeds it would not download at all!

if there are leechers which have part of the file(s) it is still possible to download the available pieces, although you would not be able to complete the download, obviously. splitting hairs i suppose.

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:51 am

bugmenot wrote:

i'm currently downloading the new 24 episode at around 5kB and uploading at around 15/20kB

Look, if you upload at 15, to 3 people each one will recive 5 like you. This might get happening to you. this always happens when the seedes numer is smaller than the peers.

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:15 pm

Nope; just uploaded a torrent and already got 10 seeders Wink

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:08 am

Try d/loading an aXXo release as soon as it's posted! Very slow because sometimes there's only one seed (aXXo himself) and obviously loads of peers so that is ultra slow. Wait a few hours and d/load again with lots of seeds and it's pretty damn fast! (Pretty obvious really!) Very Happy