Thread: how fast from box to you?

How fast are transfers from your seedbox to your personal in general? I'm sure it depends on the box, but what's the average time to get a Gig from the box to your home?

Depends on a lot of factors and someone else asked the same concerning a certain seedbox...

a) Your home connection
b) Your ISP maybe throttling the transfer protocol
c) The load on your ISP's back-end
d) Latency between both endpoints (you and seedbox)
e) Sub-optimal routing on any of the in-between hops
f) Transit-links that are saturated
g) Read speeds from seedbox HDD
h) TCP overhead from seedbox

I can go on and on about networking but I reckon you could/can find this information yourself.

Mine maxes out my connection. Just as it should be! It does take two connections to the server to do this.

Given that the seedbox connection should be a lot faster then your home connection, the speed will be limited by your home connection. It should generally max out your home connection, barring any network/hardware issues.

Distance to your seedbox will be a factor, so expect a drop in speed over long distances, you will need to check on the web what the impact should be based on your latency which you can discover by pinging your box.

Originally Posted by DutchRuff

Depends on a lot of factors and someone else asked the same concerning a certain seedbox...

a) Your home connection
b) Your ISP maybe throttling the transfer protocol
c) The load on your ISP's back-end
d) Latency between both endpoints (you and seedbox)
e) Sub-optimal routing on any of the in-between hops
f) Transit-links that are saturated
g) Read speeds from seedbox HDD
h) TCP overhead from seedbox

I can go on and on about networking but I reckon you could/can find this information yourself.

That's a pretty good list, but if you just look at it from a personal user perspective the main limiting factors are usually the speed of your home connection and the latency between you and your seedbox.
An example for this would be if you live in the USA you can't expect a seedbox to max out your homeconnection if it's located in Middle-Europe, on the other side a Datacenter located in the USA would achieve much better results in this scenario (usually, because it also depends on a lot of other factors)
What is also very important is the fact that FTP is meant for multiple-threaded connections. FTP can only reveal it's full power with multiple connections. The circumstance described above is the main reason why the scene uses RAR archives to transfer their files.

Originally Posted by Magister

That's a pretty good list, but if you just look at it from a personal user perspective the main limiting factors are usually the speed of your home connection and the latency between you and your seedbox.
An example for this would be if you live in the USA you can't expect a seedbox to max out your homeconnection if it's located in Middle-Europe, on the other side a Datacenter located in the USA would achieve much better results in this scenario (usually, because it also depends on a lot of other factors)
What is also very important is the fact that FTP is meant for multiple-threaded connections. FTP can only reveal it's full power with multiple connections. The circumstance described above is the main reason why the scene uses RAR archives to transfer their files.

Yup and nope...

In my opinion USA is a bad example since most home connections are sooo slow compared to a lot of other countries, it's hard to even choke a semi-dedi on a connection from, let's say, AT&T. Europe & Asia is a different story altogether since you can easily get 50Mbit downstream with more and more areas going over 100Mbit and then upwards to fibre between 200 and 1000 Mbps. I tried both ways; seedbox in US & FTP to home in Europe and seedbox in Europe and FTP to US. The trip of the packets seems to travel longer distances/hops TO the USA than FROM the USA feeding my senses that either the eastcoast IX's are some kind of boundary as opposed to the quite open/flexible EU-IX's.

Although scene does do RAR files for multithreaded transfers, I found almost no differences in speed if servers are interconnected on/try the same IX. Getting 10 unrarred movies or 10 rarred movies, took same time with the important difference that you lose more data on an unrarred movie if the transfer is interrupted and not resumable.

So the general answer is that it's limited by my downstream capabilities and beyond that there's a bunch of other possible things to slow you down but otherwise it's just what I got at the house. Good to know.

Originally Posted by Spep

So the general answer is that it's limited by my downstream capabilities and beyond that there's a bunch of other possible things to slow you down but otherwise it's just what I got at the house. Good to know.

It can, obviously, never be faster than your home connection download speed and factors that hinder even maxing out your connection are distance between the server and you (latency) and a lot of others described above, but that's all you need to keep in mind when choosing a seedbox.

As said above, there are a TON of things that can influence the speed. If you happen to find a specific host, research (or ask here) about the specific datacenter's speed to your home. What country are you in? What ISP? Those would be some very simple, yet large determining factors... as well as the many other aspects as the other guys have said above.