Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
The BitTorrent protocol is designed to play fair. You'll generally get what you give--and few people have uplinks that can support 10mbps. Thus it's not likely that you'll get that unless there's a whole bunch of seeders on the torrent who aren't downloading anything else.
On private trackers, because of the need to maintain ratio, there are usually tons of seeders. I hit my max rate (and maintain it) within 10 secs. My up speed is asynchrous so I'm giving back nowhere close to 10 mpbs. I know a bunch of them use seedboxes.
Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
The cable-based ISP where I live is known throttle Bittorrent feeds while the telco ISP doesn't.
It's been 2 years since I used the "cable-based ISP" but I never had a problem as long as my traffic was encrypted. Yes, I know, a lot can change in 2 years but I remember the complaints of throttling even back then.