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#1 smc91352
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First, I wanna tell people that might mod me on the basis of torrents tounderstand that downloading through torrents is 100% legal. I also didn't show even 1 of the names of the torrents - so you can't say I'm downloading or referring illegal torrents. You can say that I am introducing some people into the world of torrents; but it would be the legal equivalent of introducing people to google: sure you can use it to commit crimes, but the purpose intended is not for otherwise criminals.

As this will show you, my download speed drops whenever I finish a torrent. I'm guessing the speed I got is due to the upload speed of seeders/leechers. I'm trying to see how fast I gcan get my down speed to; So here's my question:

What torrent have you noted that gave you ridiculous download speeds. I've had some luck downloading Opera browser, but other than that what single torrent can get me to maximize my speed? PS. I have Roadrunner Turbo.

Note: I erased names of torrens so as not to get in trouble with legality issues. If you want to answer the question, but don't want to incriminate yourself you can PM me.

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#2 Fragazine
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Wait.

Do you just want a torrent so that you can test your speed?

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I'm guessing you have a 1.5 mbps link so it's not going to matter which torrent you use it's not going to go above that.
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#4 smc91352
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Wait.

Do you just want a torrent so that you can test your speed?

Fragazine

I need a reference to a torrent that gave a downloader outragous download speeds.

Or, though unlikely, a link to a non-torrent file that gave you over 600KB/s.

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#5 smc91352
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I'm guessing you have a 1.5 mbps link so it's not going to matter which torrent you use it's not going to go above that. superdav42
Your arithmatic is bad, this speed shows I'm capable to get atleast (1405KB/s)*(8bit/B)*(1MB/1024KB)=10.97Mbps

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Just find any torrent with lots of Seeders and minimal leechers... not that hard.
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Just find any torrent with lots of Seeders and minimal leechers... not that hard.LiftedHeadshot
I already downloaded the one with the most seeds on Mininova.org Also, Seeds don't mean better speed neccesarily; it didn't get me to 500KB/s while a movie I got was at 650KB/s.

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[QUOTE="LiftedHeadshot"]Just find any torrent with lots of Seeders and minimal leechers... not that hard.smc91352

I already downloaded the one with the most seeds on Mininova.org

Have you tried TPB?
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[QUOTE="smc91352"]

[QUOTE="LiftedHeadshot"]Just find any torrent with lots of Seeders and minimal leechers... not that hard.LiftedHeadshot

I already downloaded the one with the most seeds on Mininova.org

Have you tried TPB?

ThePirateBay? I'll try now...

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[QUOTE="LiftedHeadshot"][QUOTE="smc91352"]I already downloaded the one with the most seeds on Mininova.org

smc91352

Have you tried TPB?

ThePirateBay? I'll try now...

Quite possibly it's just that you don't upload enough. Try to raise the ratio a bit, depending on what BitTorrent software you use, the DL speed may rely upon the UL speed.