Topic: BitCoinTorrentz.com - Torrent Download Service - page 13. (Read 57198 times)

seems down from here, too, yes. Am placing buy orders on glbse, in case that is up

Down?

i can browse torrentz from work via TOR
i must not rely on torrent ports which are easily identified
i can d/l the stuff via TOR if I want or per http-download
in europe broadband / cable is far less common than in the US or Japan, so the download speed is not a primary concern
i am not SEEDING (which is the primary legal concern of most people).
i have 0 electricity costs for my mining rig.

that's how it is useful.

I like it for when I want to grab something while i'm at the office and don't want IT finding a torrent downloader on my computer.  Its kinda slow, but works well.

It's probably only useful for people who have torrents blocked or throttled. It may be useful if you don't want your IP recorded when using torrents and perhaps if you stream media after downloading it to their server (but only if you're close enough to get good enough speed).

Ok, figured it out and tried it..


Ummmm really really really dissappointed..


I tried them each, alone..

Downloading the actual torrent was much much faster...  1.5 + megs a sec..

yours was about 7 hours for a 4 gig file..

much much slower...  im not sure of the conversion, but compared to my torrent downloader and the file download through your site.. it was no contest...

that was a waste of 0.2 bitcoins frankly..


And why is this service useful ?

jesus..

I would have paid already 30 times over if I actually was in the loop of torrent sites (now Hash sites) other than pirate bay..

Cant seem to find a torrent file for the move I want... dammit..

Converting magnet links isn't very straightforward. You need to connect to the bittorrent network and download the torrent file corresponding to the link from peers. Better wait for the site to directly support it.

magnet link support has been requested as a feature a couple posts above.

I think currently you'll have to resort to findin a torrent file or link to one ;|

How do I get a torrent file to see what your site says about it, cost wise, from a magnet link..

Im using pirate bay for instance...

I regularly download torrents at 300-500 kBps so my local connection is capable. I have only tried downloading from your server this once though and can't report more than that. It varied between 20-45 kBps but after 4 hours or so I just canceled it. I did try a download manager briefly later (using axel on linux with 6 connections) and it went up to 320 kBps. Then I tried again in Firefox and it was doing about 50 kBps. So I'm thinking it's a per connection limit.

The RTT can limit the throughput over TCP due to packets needing to be ACK'd but I don't my current TCP window size and RTT to definitely say this is the reason. Your server didn't respond to pings so I couldn't determine that. I'd guess about 350 ms though and with a typical 65K rwin value that would work out to a 187 kBps limit (according to here). But I don't know off hand my actual tcp window size so this is just guessing. (Note, according to that wiki article your server should have suitable send buffers as well since it must keep the sent packets around until the ACK comes back. So you may want to explore TCP tuning as it could be you're not using your available bandwidth when users are connected with a high RTT).

Also if your server has 10 Mbps upload then wouldn't some significant portion of that be used up by active torrents? Or are the torrent connections on a different interface/system? And then there is a variable number of other users who would be sharing that limit at any time for downloads.

Anyway, I already had the file before so I was testing this out to see if it was worthwhile for me. It seems if I use a download manager like axel (or Flashget etc) then the speed can be quite good but otherwise not.

I just checked the server, and it is currently uploading at 5mb/s, but even at that 40 kB/s is unlikely to be caused by intensive server usage as the server should automatically balance the load across all it's connections. Some ISP's with poor morals limit speeds to bandwidth intensive IP addresses. With torrents, you connect to many various and unique IP addresses meaning you may not otherwise notice it. This may be the case for you BkkCoins. What ISP do you use?

The only other thing I can think of is that your connectivity to the server may be rather poor. The server is located in Luxembourg in Europe, so there may be a bottleneck somewhere between your computer and the server at certain times of the day. Have you been receiving 40kb/s regularly, or was this just a once off?

There may be some issues with the server hosting company too, but I have not seen any notifications from them about it.
Please let me know if this continues to be an issue.

I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to apologize. I don't care much about wether you do or not.

I re-read page 3 and I can't find discussion of why the distance to the server could cause slowdown in bandwidth.

Can you explain this to me? I don't understand how latency could limit bandwidth, since I already downloaded large files at 10 mbit (max of the connection) through a satellite link with 500ms latency using only 1 http connection.

Also just tried another large dl from bitcointorrentz at 577kB/s (about 50% of my bandwidth). Will try multi-connection download next with another file.

i only have 2MBit DSL  but am always d/ling with full capacity (210kb/s) with the help of "Down them All!" in firefox.

Yes, your connection to the server (distance?) is the main factor I think. Besides, multi-threaded downloads take less time, so the effect on the server should be the same on average even if everyone used multi-threaded downloads.

(I just tested a single thread download, I get 630K/s from home, 3.2M/s from a server in Germany. So, the issue seems route related, server is fine. Also, I can fill my home bandwidth limit with multiple connections.)

Do you really think that the server is so overloaded that 40 KB/s is "normal"?  As we discussed on page 3 of this thread, it's more likely the distance to the server that's causing the bottleneck.  I'm not going to apologize for using a download manager when I'm not causing any adverse effects to other users.

And here is the reason why bandwidth gets distributed unevenly amongst downloaders ;|

Unless the other site on the server uses much bandwidth (which I don't assume is the case), seeing people complain here about bandwidth issues means we have good usage .

At some point - given continous growth - it might be worth thinking about the cost (money and work) of an upgrade. It's certainly putting off some user if they only get 40kB/s download. Ideally it should be (most of the time) fast enough for streaming a "normal" DVD-quality avi, so the above use-case (a strong one, I think) can flourish.

I have a similar situation, but I found that the best option is to use a download accelerator like FlashGet that allows you to split the file up into multiple simultaneous downloads.  Set it to the maximum number of threads and you should be getting faster speeds.

I know that with FlashGet, you can still open the incomplete file in VLC as it's being downloaded, which is a roundabout way of streaming it.  It works at least.

I can stream at at least 400KBps, though I'm in Europe. However, it was around 200KBps before I switched ISPs, so there may be different factors affecting the speed.

I'm trying out your service. I started a torrent and it downloaded to your server quickly - about 1MB/s. But now when I download it to my system it only comes down at about 40kB/s. This makes it kind of useless to me. My intention was to be able to stream it so I could watch it sooner than waiting for the full torrent to arrive here but at this speed even streaming won't work. I don't think the problem is my link as I often download stuff (including torrents too) that come in at 400-500 kB/s. My ISP rates my line at 5 Mb/s.

So I don't know but at this speed it's not much use. Or maybe there is just some current issue preventing faster downloading?