SoulseekQT, How do I get faster upload speed?
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Alex Larsen
Oct 12, 2017, 6:21:02 PM10/12/17
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Alright, so I like to share movies, tv shows, and PC games on SoulseekQT. However it takes a really long time to share some of these things. My question for readers of this is: Is there a way I can adjust settings to share more bytes per second? I already tried fiddling with upload speed limit at the bottom of my upload window, didn't appear to help. When I'm downloading from torrenting sites my ISP allows me to download at a max of about 2.4 mbps. also I see next to people's names in rooms a "k/s" followed by a number. I'm assuming that's how fast they can upload/download in kilobytes per second? Is there anybody out there that knows a solution or an answer to what I'm asking? Using SoulseekQT 2017.2.20 on windows 10 my k/s is 148.6 if that even matters. Thanks for wasting your life away reading this.
faircity
Oct 13, 2017, 6:27:18 PM10/13/17
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Torrents is totally different from P2P sharing.
Read this: https://www.worldtvpc.com/blog/p2p-and-bittorrent-what-the-hells-the-difference-find-out-here/
Read this: https://www.worldtvpc.com/blog/p2p-and-bittorrent-what-the-hells-the-difference-find-out-here/
Alex Larsen
Oct 13, 2017, 8:20:35 PM10/13/17
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Right, but how on a peer 2 peer does people have such a high upload/download speed?
kod...@gmail.com
Oct 17, 2017, 6:29:10 AM10/17/17
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On Soulseek you are downloading from a single user. Your download speed is limited by their upload speed. If they can only upload at 50k/s, then you can only download from them at 50k/s.
When using torrents, you are downloading from multiple users simultaneously. So if you're downloading from five users who all have a 50k/s upload speed, then you're downloading at 250k/s.
The same thing applies when you're uploading. If your maximum upload is only 50k/s, then that's the maximum speed anyone can download from you. To ensure that you're uploading at the best speed, set the upload speed to 0. That way, Soulseek will use your connection as best it can. Setting the speed to a particular number makes Soulseek attempt to limit your connection to that number. The point of doing that is to stop Soulseek using too much of your upload speed when you're uploading in other applications. There's no point setting the number higher than your upload speed can go.
Upload speed is almost always much lower than your download speed. For instance on my connection, I can download at 80 megabits a second, but only upload at 20. That's a heck of a lot better than my previous connection where I had a 24 megabit download speed, but only 1 megabit for uploading. Ouch.
The only thing you can do to improve your upload speed is to change your ISP.
Soulseek is made for sharing music. Music files tend to be only a few magabytes in size, so it downloads (and uploads) a song really quickly in most cases. Movies, TV shows and games are hundreds of megabytes or several gigabytes. They're always going to be slow unless you have a monstrous upload speed. You're better off sharing large files over torrents.
When using torrents, you are downloading from multiple users simultaneously. So if you're downloading from five users who all have a 50k/s upload speed, then you're downloading at 250k/s.
The same thing applies when you're uploading. If your maximum upload is only 50k/s, then that's the maximum speed anyone can download from you. To ensure that you're uploading at the best speed, set the upload speed to 0. That way, Soulseek will use your connection as best it can. Setting the speed to a particular number makes Soulseek attempt to limit your connection to that number. The point of doing that is to stop Soulseek using too much of your upload speed when you're uploading in other applications. There's no point setting the number higher than your upload speed can go.
Upload speed is almost always much lower than your download speed. For instance on my connection, I can download at 80 megabits a second, but only upload at 20. That's a heck of a lot better than my previous connection where I had a 24 megabit download speed, but only 1 megabit for uploading. Ouch.
The only thing you can do to improve your upload speed is to change your ISP.
Soulseek is made for sharing music. Music files tend to be only a few magabytes in size, so it downloads (and uploads) a song really quickly in most cases. Movies, TV shows and games are hundreds of megabytes or several gigabytes. They're always going to be slow unless you have a monstrous upload speed. You're better off sharing large files over torrents.
gemba...@gmail.com
Feb 7, 2020, 9:20:54 AM2/7/20
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I have this question as well. I would like downloaders to be able to get their files from me more quickly but there seems to be a 3,000 Kbps ceiling that no-one can reach (looking at the thousands of downloads from other users). I have measured more than 140,000 Kbps upload speed on my connection using speedtest (and Torrents) so why are speeds so limited with Soulseek? Is it a limitation of the platform?
icyt...@gmail.com
Apr 29, 2020, 1:01:22 AM4/29/20
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I am also wondering the same thing. 250mbitps upload, only sending max 1200kbps
David Harris
Nov 20, 2023, 10:29:14 PM11/20/23
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What I can't understand IS : If I DL from a user at 300kbps then he must be uploading to ME at 300kbps, yet his simultaneous
upload FROM me rarely exceeds 100kbps and more often than not, a LOT less. What's all THAT about ? It's embarrassing to
have to make excuses to someone who's doing you a favour. MY upload = 300 Kb, HIS upload = 100 Kb. That sucks dog-dick.
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