Low speed on Torrents ?

Hi TE ppl ...

I have BSNL Home 500 plane...

Whenever i try to download Torrents i got very low speed (50-70KBps) ...

But on rapidshare i got 150-200kbps speed ...

Why this happen ????

^^ Look..
The speed of torrent depends upon number of seeders of that torrent files..
No. of seeders > No. of Leechers ==> More download speed.
No. of seeders < No. of Leechers ==> Less download speed.

What kind of torrent client do you use? Usually, if you want better speeds, you have to set up a static IP and do some port forwarding. Portforward.com has several guides for configuring different routers and torrent clients, probably wouldn't be a bad place to start.

Its confirmed India ISP are among the BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
All the major Indian ISPs - BSNL, VSNL, Reliance, Airtel are in that list.

among the BitTorrent Throttling ISPs

I use utorrent ....

here is a source
BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus | TorrentFreak

I have bsnl 500 plan! i get speed of 210 kbps on well seeded ones(read private trackers),but average about 150 dependng upon the seed, leech ratio.
try a test torrent !

Can you post some links???

My friend gets 180 to 200 kbps download speed during bsnl happy hours, so i dont think wat your saying is true.

me get allmost 100% speed on my VSNL 256 UL too.

isn't home 500 a 256kbps plan ??
download speed is only a max. of 33KBps rite?

then wats this bout 150-200 & 50-70 KBps?

Do enlighten me..

BSNL Home 500 Plan has 2mbps speed. So we mostly talk around 256kbps

I have already given
Low speed on Torrents ?

You gave the old link, that link has no info on india or indian isps

my feel is that you shud check the utorrent settings......

as Rahulrulez said the download speeds range up to 2 Mbps max with 256 kbps being minimum. Recently the upload speeds have gone up to 512 kbps.

remember its all in kilo bits per second, not kilo Bytes, so a on a 256kbps connection you should get 32 kilo Bytes of data theoretically.

I get steady 185 KBps Download and 47 KBps upload (both throttled for DL/UL balance) on private trackers and sometimes even on open trackers (if there are more seeders than leechers).