[acsher]

hi
my problem is that i hardly get constant download speeds with direct downloads especially during the day timings , however , with torrents i keep getting max. constant download speed (that my connection can offer) all day long!!..so can some body plz help me understand this dichotomy of my connection?.. because common sense tells me that if it was due to my isp throttling my download speed @ peak hours thn i should have gotten lower speeds on torrents as well!
isn't it?

also, is there any way that i can get over this problem?

cheers
Ashar, Pakistan

[alehkcis]

download speeds may vary from which site you are trying to download.some sites can only handle 50Kbps per file.

[acsher]

Originally Posted by alehkcis

download speeds may vary from which site you are trying to download some sites can only handle 50Kbps per file.

yes i know tht, but what about sites like youtube, rapidshare etc?

in fact when download speed is decreased it is the same case on almost every site that i visit , however, torrents speed is still at its max.

[alehkcis]

do you download something from torrent , while downloading from rapidshare or other sites?

[Mak213]

Originally Posted by acsher

yes i know tht, but what about sites like youtube, rapidshare etc?

in fact when download speed is decreased it is the same case on almost every site that i visit , however, torrents speed is still at its max.

These sites have MASSIVE traffic and have to devide that traffic up among all its visitors. There is no way you or anyone will get max connection and download speed from a site that has roughly 1 Million or more user on it every hour. Not unless they have a server farm running. But even Microsoft cant feed all the users on their site to max speed when everyone decides to connect.

Just look at when the Vista Beta went live. Microsoft.com almost went down. There were so many people trying to download that file at one time that you couldnt even access their site. Same thing for Firefox 3's download day. You try and access their site that day? You couldnt. It would take you at elast 5 minutes to access the server and load the page.

The reason why you get torrents so fast is because you connect to multiple people. Then you get bits and pieces of the file from each one. The pieces are no more than 5KB or so in size. Compared to trying to get a 100MB file from 1 source.

That is why torrents will get full speed. Multiple connections for same file. Server have 1 connection trying to feed multiple connections at the same time. It is much harder for a server to feed ever user that is connected to it at max speed and feed everyone's download at max speed. It just cant happen.