I've searched the topic and apparently by disabling the Powersaving feature I ought to get faster download speeds. I did it, but change is only by 10k (I can download up to 200k on PC). I am usually at 20k speeds on Transmission, latest version and latest firmware IT 2008. What else can I do? I've also port forwarded the ports on my router.

Its really hard to determine cause of anything like this. I will say i frequently see speeds over 200kbps and i've seen speeds up to 500+kbps. This is on very popular torrents with plenty of seeders. This is also on files over 300MB.

When i start a torrent its always slow, but usually as i start getting pieces which can be uploaded then my speeds go up. So the more you are at least 'able' to share/upload the more likely peers with 'collaborate' and send you pieces in exchange... even if its not always equal trade.

I dont know what your router is like but you might try not port forwarding at all. Transmission uses some kind of upnp to automatically attempt port forwarding so i've never needed to forward.

I have also never modified any power saving settings on maemo.

Or it could just be a non popular tracker/torrent. Some desktop bittorrent clients, like azureus i think, sidestep the tracker to find additional sources which match.

How fast is your SD card at writing?

Grab a kernel with 48Hz mode enabled and the hack to disable cpufreq (I've got a script if you want it)

Tx power should have almost nothing to do with throughput. It will however affect distance you can be from the access point. As long as the AP can clearly hear your tablet then the speed going to be the same whether at 100mW or 10mW.

The a change would only affect re-transmits if you are at a fringe/marginal distance from the router/access point. In such a case switching to the higher Tx power will actually increase battery life as the card is not working as hard to send the data repeatedly.

Overall I have found the speeds fine for the card. Unless you are concerened with LAN speeds vs WAN speeds. Unless you have a super wide broadband pipe whatever the LAN speed is will be faster then your WAN connection can provide data. Again, unless there is a distance issue and a lot of re-Tx's on the LAN side of the equation. To fix that there are two options I can see. Either increase the Tx to the 100mW setting or if that fails move closer/relocate your Wifi router or it's antenna orientation/location. I guess there are a couple added options but those would involve adding more LAN/WLAN hardware.

Oh, also just thought that you should make sure the issue is not in the router and check the Tx power setting on the router itself. Some routers do have the ability to adjust their Tx power too.

EDIT: I re-read your initial post and wanted to and an FYI. The to most significant factors in the actually d/l speed to your tablet will be the CPU & NIC...I do not know if the NIC in the table has it's own processor or hands off processing to the system CPU. Either way neither will be in the same class processing wise as your other full sized systems. I get significantly slower speeds on my tablet then my other 'full size" systems. But that is to be expected and completely a hardware issue. You might be able to tweak a setting here or there to squeeze a few more bps but it really is unlikely to be that significant.

20k is very low... if he can ssh files at normal 300kbps+ then id say its tracker/quota related... possibly due to him disabling uploading or not being able to be reached (port mapping) by peers.

When i first start downloading it takes a while to get the good peers... like im lower priority until i collect a few pieces a can trade with, then after a while (maybe 10%) it generally skyrockets.

Thank you for the explanations, Ill go check the router. I am using Transend (Class 6) 8gb SD cards (two of them).


EDIT: Problem solved, thanks for the help. It was a combination of things, the tracker I elected was not so great and our ISP was providing a sucky connection. Everything is well now.