tvwwer1 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 (edited) I'm on a desktop and bitcomet download speeds have been slower ever since I moved my pc and had to use a Medialink USB Wireless Adapter, amazon link My download speed is 300kb and I can surf and download at that speed in a browser, but when I download through bitcomet I get 100-150kb speed on this download with 5 seeds connected. I know for a fact I can get to 300kb speeds if i connected to the internet wired on even 2 seeds. I have my ports forwarded and everything. It just seems that my usb adapter works fine in almost every aspect of my internet except bitcomet downloads. Connecting wired is out of the option so I was hoping someone might know anything about my problem and could kindly inform me how to fix this if there is one. Edited September 19, 2011 by tvwwer1 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 If your WAN light is green, then using this type of adapter shouldn't be a problem and shouldn't effect your speeds. Try downloading one of the openoffice torrents, they are well seeded and should show you if your able to download at your connections full speed or not. http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvwwer1 Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 well I tried downloading that torrent was getting 1 seed and was getting around 40 Kbps download. My WAN light is green though. Then i tried downloading a popular anime episode with 60 seeds and 700 peers and am now close to the 300 Kbps speed that i want. I guess it really comes down to how many seeds I have. It's weird because i can recall downloading files that were getting fewer than 5 seeds but still get 300 Kbps speed when I was connected wired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 It's not the number of seeds, a seed is a person just like you, it depends on how fast each seed and peer can upload to you. ps. the open office torrent should have maxed out your connection speed. Last time I downloaded it, my speed was over 3000kB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvwwer1 Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 well i maxed out to 320 which is what my max should be in the open office with 8 seeds. It first started at 20 and maxed out in a minute. I guess some torrents just have low seeds with slow upload speeds which could explain my lack of speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 The reason for testing with OO is that if it maxes your connection, you know you've done everything you can on your end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvwwer1 Posted September 25, 2011 Author Share Posted September 25, 2011 reviving this thread again, bitcomet still not achieving max speeds consistently. I don't understand how different hardware can affect bitcomet ONLY. My browsers not affected but bitcomet is. Connecting wired gets me to max speed at the very start. My wireless connection now just starts low like at 50Kb/s and sometimes goes to my max speed of 320Kb/s but then goes down back to the 100's. I'd say I get around 110Kb/s consistently, less than half of my max speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 You might have an issue with your wifi connection, see if you're able to transfer files from one pc to another at a rate close to your wifi connection speed. If not, then you may need to relocate your wifi device, or perhaps upgrade it to a faster standard with greater range. Wifi "N" routers and adapters have become very cheap and might be your best option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvwwer1 Posted September 26, 2011 Author Share Posted September 26, 2011 Well I think i found the solution. I unchecked a setting on my linksys router: "block anonymous internet request" aka block WAN request according to the more info. Everything seems good so far, been getting my max speed consistently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 All remote peer connections are anonymous. You don't know who they are until you connect to them, so you had your firewall set to block them. Glad you fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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