Question Friend has faster download speed than me ?

[Scar667]

We both started downloading a torrent, I started first, I got 2-10Mb/s and he got 40Mb.

We both have: 1000Mb download speed (800~ tested), wired, no VPN, same torrent client (qBittorrent), same settings, same torrent, no DNSs, same time (span of an hour), different ISPs, I have windows 10 and he 11, we live like 100km from each other,

Torrent had 6 seeders and only us downloading. There is no way he connected to 1 good seeder and I didn't, especially because I started first and he ended first, I would have connected to the good seeder at some point.

He is wired directly to his router, while I have 1 x router and 2 x bridges, but I tested the speed and got
800 down / 500 up.

What could the problem be?

 

[bill001g]

If you get a speedtest result that is what your ISP is selling you then there is likely no problem with your pc, router or the internet connection to your house.

Unless it is something about the torrent software on your pc it is likely out of your control. Key difference is you say you have different ISP which can make significant difference in the path data take.
It doesn't really pay to even worry about things like how ISP are interconnected and performance between ISP you can not change anything.

Although not as common some ISP will still detect torrent traffic and assign it a lower priority in their network.

 

[Ralston18]

Likely no problem at all other than the download paths are very likely different and "your path" happens to be the slower path.

That could change at any time.

However, as I understand your post ( 1 x router and 2 x bridges)l there could be other reasons.

E.g., why "bridges"? What is the requirement for bridges and how are the bridges configured?

More information needed.

 

[Scar667]

Likely no problem at all other than the download paths are very likely different and "your path" happens to be the slower path.

That could change at any time.

However, as I understand your post ( 1 x router and 2 x bridges)l there could be other reasons.

E.g., why "bridges"? What is the requirement for bridges and how are the bridges configured?

More information needed.

I'm not savvy in this stuff, but basically the router is far ish away, and the path to my pc (all wired) passes through 2 other routers with the bridge setting turned on
The only thing I can change are the settings

 

[Ralston18]

I'm not savvy in this stuff, but basically the router is far ish away, and the path to my pc passes through 2 other routers with the bridge setting turned on

More explanation needed: Whose routers? Why far away? Who configured and administered those routers and bridges?

Not a likely setup for most end users and there may be all sorts of issues involved.

 

[Scar667]

More explanation needed: Whose routers? Why far away? Who configured and administered those routers and bridges?

Not a likely setup for most end users and there may be all sorts of issues involved.

All my routers, the first/main router is far way because it's at the house's entrance, that's where the fiber/ISP cable enters and connects to it, while my pc is at the other end of the property (it's not a big property, but long). So to have wifi coverage all the way through, the ethernet cable passes through 2 routers/bridges, until it reaches my PC.

Main router was setup by the ISP technicians, and the other 2 I connected myself and set to bridge mode

 

[rgd1101]

what are you torrenting?

 

[Scar667]

what are you torrenting?

The english wikipedia

 

[bill001g]

In general if speedtest works correctly then there is nothing wrong with your network inside your house.

Last time I looked at the traffic speedtest was running it actual function similar to a torrent. It open multiple streams of data and transfers them all in parallel. The main difference is they all come from the same remote IP unlike torrents.

Unless you take your machine over to the other location to test I am going to bet it is just some difference in the path your ISP takes to the machines you download from. If your friend is downloading from other people on the same ISP as him it will run much faster than if it must cross between multiple ISP. The details on this really don't matter you can not do much...you could use VPN to maybe change the pathing but then you deal with the encryption overhead.

You best bet is to dig though all the setting on the torrent clients and maybe even windows and compare them with the machine that works properly. Maybe you get lucky.

 

[USAFRet]

Torrents are a particularly bad way of comparing or determining "download speed".