broadband,speed and traffic

[jayr6666]

hello all,
help needed.I have a 2meg broadband connection and i often use a p2p file sharing program.When i'm downloading and other people are uploading from my system my speeds are way down.Even when i'm downloading from 10 hosts my speed is only around 8-10 kB/s,although 5 people areuploading at the same time and i know this affects your bandwith.Is this slow speed down to internet traffic or my settings?cheers.jay.

 

[triplea4uk]

which program you using? also 2meg broadband who you with you could have adsl or cable both are very different?

 

[sbowler]

Stick in another 512mb of RAM, worked wonders for me. Think it depends on other web traffic also.

 

[jayr6666]

cheerhave adsl[tiscali]and i'm running limeware for which i've already configuered for best speed.thanks.

 

[jayr6666]

Stick in another 512mb of RAM, worked wonders for me. Think it depends on other web traffic also.

thanks for that.how much difference does that make?cheers.jay.

 

[2010]

I don't see what extra RAM has to do with p2p downloading (unless you have a rediculously low amount) but I would imagine that its either a firewall problem (ports blocked) or that you are trying to download files that do not have many seeds & are being heavily downloaded.

Also worth running a speedtest on your broadband.