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speedtest.net says my up speed is 4Mbps but utorrent doesn't seed that fast, why?
I supposedly get 4Mbps upload speed, but I am seeding 1 single torrent I created, and it goes from 100Kbps to 400Kbps, but it averages about 250Kbps. WHy is this? I'm not running anything else, I'm not uploading or downloading anything else. I did a throttle test and my ISP isn't throttling me. I tried changes some reccomended things on utorrent's website and nothing seems to have changed. Even with up to 8 leechers I wasn't even breaking 1000Kbps. I feel like nothing is wrong since I can stream pretty high, up past 2Mbps dedicated to the stream. What gives? my ISP is comcast, and I am using utorrent.
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- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
You gotta do the math. Your internet service is sold to you in Bits. You have a 4 MegaBit upload speed package from your ISP. Downloads are calculated in Bytes though. There are 8 Bits in 1 Byte. 4 (your upload speed) divided by 8 (the number of bits in a byte) equals 0.500. 500 KiloBytes is your maximum upload speed. So if you're getting 400 Kbps upload, then you're getting right about what you're paying for. If you want to go faster, purchase more speed from your ISP. Additionally, just because you can upload at 500 Kbps, doesn't mean that someone else can download at 500 Kbps.