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Ripwave slow torrents??

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  • 12-02-2007 6:09am
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    Rozie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭


    Everything downloads at fine speeds, except for Torrents which are awkwardly slow... what's going on with this?


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Ripwave is just a kind of Wireless ISDN replacement. I wouldn't expect it to be very fast. This is why it is very cheap.


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    Rozie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Rozie


    watty wrote:
    Ripwave is just a kind of Wireless ISDN replacement. I wouldn't expect it to be very fast. This is why it is very cheap.

    Yes, but I get good speeds downloading from servers, why not with P2P?


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    scsa
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭scsa


    I've got Ripwave too, and a green light for reception thanks to living on the 3rd floor of an apartment block. I use utorrent with encryption and random ports and UPnP port forwarding. Torrents come down at about 5k/s, compared to sometimes 50k/s a year ago on Ripwave.

    Downloading from HEAnet over HTTP gets me 5k/s too though, and pages take forever to load, so it's not just torrents. It's just IBB overselling their "broadband in a box". Contention must be ridiculous for the Ripwave masts at this point.

    Just have to start looking into other BB options I think. Not looking forward to paying line rental on a phone I'll never use. :/


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