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I new to torrents and i have been downloading a file since monday on the first day it went to 2% second day 4% third day 11% yesterday 45% and today its really slow again why dose the download rate keep changing how can i make it faster if there are 4 peers all witch are seeds?
 
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Torrent's can be really unreliable in terms of speed. Peers are usualy other people who have a certain amount of the whole file but not all whereas seeds have the whole file. So it could get to a point where no peers have more than 80% of the whole file so that means you can't download more that 80% unless there is a seeder.
 
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there are 3 seeds now all 100% but speed is 0 what can i do?
 
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Doe's your torrent client tell you any detailed information about the tracker etc
 
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im using bittorrent
 
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Are you using a private tracker or public tracker for this download? Cause you will most definitely get high speeds while using Private trackers, the opposite of which is true with Public ones.

Also, check out Transmission, a much better torrent client for the mac.
 
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how do i know if its public or private?
 
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Trust me, you would know ;) I'm guessing it's a public tracker. Private trackers are where you need to register, and maintain a good sharing ratio and such.

You could check out the little guide I wrote on my blog. First Link
 
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How come yesterday everything was the same and downloading a 78kb/s and today 2kb/s?
 
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That's the thing with public trackers. They are very unreliable. Here's what. Just to make sure there's nothing wrong with your torrent client or connection, try downloading Ubuntu 7.10 from their site. That torrent is always loaded with seeders. If you don't max out on your connection, there's something going on with your torrent client.
 
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What is Ubuntu and whats it for?
 
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This the torrent im trying to download: http://www.mininova.org/tor/514257
in bittorrent it has 3 seeds kb/s and in transmission its just started (right now) witch has 1 seed. whats going on and how long should i wait for a torrent to find a seed?
 
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I'm not sure we are allowed to discuss specific torrents in here, against the forum rules, but if I were looking at a torrent with that many seeds on Mininova, I'd wait a long time.
 
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thanks for you help, cant wait to get another high download day
 
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Still need i trying to down load a file using transmission it has 75 peers 90% have the whole file but im not downloading and when it dose its only from 1 peer how can i download faster
 
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Try downloading torrents with lots of seeds.
 
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Quality of seeds is very important. You mostly get trash on public trackers. Private ones are where you can max out your connection with just one seeder...
 
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this has 6780 seeds
 
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What ISP do you have? ISP may be blocking/limiting bittorrent traffic.
 

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