Downloads slower than expected
Once a torrent is ready, your own connection usually sets the speed. Here's what to check.
Once a torrent is ready, you download it from our servers on a 10 Gbit/s network, so your own connection usually sets the speed.
Check these first
- Your line: run the speed test. It downloads a test file from the same servers as your links.
- Units: internet plans count in megabits, browsers in megabytes: 100 Mbit/s is 12.5 MB/s.
- Wi-Fi: a cable, or getting closer to the router, is often much faster.
- Connections: a download manager using 4 connections on one file often beats a browser, especially far from our servers.
- Fair use: past 2 TB in a month, transfers run at 10 MB/s until the 1st. Your Library says so when it happens.
- Free trial: when the day's free capacity is used up, free downloads wait until the next day.
Still downloading on our side?
While a torrent isn't ready, its speed depends on its peers, not on your line. See Cached torrents.
Still slow? Write to us with the speed test result, your download manager and its settings.