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Originally posted by SonicSam
Since were talking about Bittorrent slow im wondering. I have port forwarded my bittorrent and my downloads are at usually 300kb/s but why does it takke all my bandwith becuase i have 3mb/s ???
I'll assume that you neglected to type the units properly, or you didn't know the difference.
3 Mbps means 3 megabits per second, and is the same as 384 KB/s, which means 384 kilobytes per second.
If you are utilising 300 KB/s out of a theoretical maximum of 384 KB/s, you're doing good IMO. BitTorrent uses more overhead information than HTTP. The overhead is data sent over a connection which isn't the file you are transferring, including TCP ack packets, and in BitTorrent's case, requests for pieces.
A BitTorrent download is split into virtual pieces of equal size when the torrent is created. The size of each piece is set by the creator, but would generally be 2 MB for larger torrents. In smaller torrents (10 MB) it would make more sense to use a piece such as 64 KB. Clients will use these pieces to identify parts of the file, and will usually download the rarest parts that they don't have first.
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