Slow P2P/multipoint download

Hi this is my first post!

Im sure this question has been asked before so direction to a previous thread may help.

Im on Sky Connect. In short I have great speed downloading from any sinlge site (download.com for example), up to 5MB infact. Problem is any multipoint peer 2 peer is totaly shocking (large amount of quality sources download speed of 5-10k!!!). Also being an avid Counter Strike Source player, I used to be with telewest and get a ping of less than 15, I now get a ping of around 70!! This is a real problem for me.

I could do without so much speed for a better ping.

Im not a technical Noob but Im not an expert either. Any help greatfully excepted.

Thanks in advance.

Arc.:)

Welcome Arcanon.

Sorry to break it to you mate but dark forces are at work on the connect package where P2P is involved.

so on the connect you dont get any p2p or do you but only 10k? is there anyway of getting round it? also on the broadband max is there good p2p access?

cheers :)

pm me for above issues.

Welcome to the site Arcanon

Moved to the correct forum

You are in the same boat as all the users on the Connect package management measures are in place which is why you can get great speeds from everywhere else expect p2p and possibly Usenet as well.

I really dont see why people use usenet as iptorrents.com are as fast as that and free.

speeds of 300-500 the norm on a good seeded file and on a great seeded file speeds of 1.4mbps.

If your on the connect package it doesn't matter how well seeded the torrents are or how fast a user on LLU can get them, a connect user will not hit speeds like that due to the way its controlled.

As for Usenet that down to what individuals want everyone has there own preferences, I would much rather user them than torrents.

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Originally Posted by Wheelie

Welcome to the site Arcanon

Moved to the correct forum

You are in the same boat as all the users on the Connect package management measures are in place which is why you can get great speeds from everywhere else expect p2p and possibly Usenet as well.

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Oh. This seems like *exactly* my problem too.

I can't seem to find the connect forum thread - could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks...

(so is there no way around it?)

try the link in this thread for torrents seems to help most people on the connect package that have probs...................

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/p2p-d...rent-info.html

Thanks - that's the stuff I was playing with last night. Should this circumvent the connect restrictions then?

The reason I ask - is that I had *no* luck at all with any of this last night, and was thinking that perhaps it was the connect package that was my problem, and not the port-forwarding etc...

well yeah the connect package is the problem with peer to peer but enabling encryption sometimes fools then into giving ya faster speeds

ah ok cheers.

SO my question is this then? Is there anything in my connect contract that states that they will cap p2p traffic? Regardless of any other *shenanigans* - I actually have a need to receive/send fairly large torrent traffic for some work I am doing.

Has Sky said anything about this anywhere do you know? (sorry to be a pain but you're really helping me - so thanks!)

no and they proberbly wont either the connect package is run by bt its them that are throttling peer to peer downloads not sky on the sky packages base mid max no throttling as of yet full speeds on peer to peer as they use there own equipment at the exchange

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Originally Posted by TheWhizzz

try the link in this thread for torrents seems to help most people on the connect package that have probs...................

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/p2p-d...rent-info.html

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Originally Posted by TheWhizzz

no and they proberbly wont either the connect package is run by bt its them that are throttling peer to peer downloads not sky on the sky packages base mid max no throttling as of yet full speeds on peer to peer as they use there own equipment at the exchange

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Ah... Got you, understood.

Thanks for that. It seems like a lot of people on connect are having problems here and it's good to get a solid set of answers - much appreciated!