Torrents in China
Using Bittorrent (BT) in China is quite a bit more difficult than in the US. Popular trackers, such as the ubiquitous PirateBay are blocked. Torrent sites are blocked. Torrent software such as uTorrent does not appear to discriminate against geographically distant peers.
Currently in Shanghai, I’m downloading a torrent with 500 seeds and another 500 peers on uTorrent. Most of these came from decentralized systems (DHT, Peer Exchange) and not from a tracker:
Name Seeds Peers Downloaded [DHT] 198 170 0 [Peer Exchange] 523 587 0 mightynova (timed out) 6 7 30
The speed is also nothing to write home about, at 10 KB/s, about 120x slower than my 1.1MB/s I get on Verizon FIOS back in NYC:
According to Speakeasy’s speed test, the connection here gets 123 KB/s down, so it’s not that I’m hitting the cap, yet! If you’ve got hints, let me know.
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I have the same problem here. It worked like clock work for the last few months but in the last few weeks it has slowed to a crawl.
I am no noob with computers but I am struggling with this. Any and all help is appreciated!
Regards,
Alexology