Virgin Media 50MB SuperHub + uTorrent

oHUTCHYo · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:54

Just had 50MB installed along with the obligatory Virgin SuperHub today. Im hitting 50MB easy on http speed tests. However utorrent is a different matter. My previous 10MB connection give me good speeds most of the time and tend to hit 1MB download late-night through to the early hours of the morning.

Now...Im stuggling to hit 10kbps download on a torrent with 6 seeds and no leechers. Something isnt right.

Can anyone share any experiences/solutions please? With 50Mb how many active downloads should I have? What upload speed? Any particular settings in utorrent need changing?

Dissapointed

PistolPete · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:47

Try a popular Linux distro with plenty of large seeders and see what you get.

oHUTCHYo · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:51

48 seeders, 7 leechers - Hovering around 2MB.

I dont understand then, how the lesser shared torrents can be slower than the 10MB connection though?

Surveyor · 14 Jan 2011 at 22:35

You can only download at the speed the seeders can upload.

KIA · 14 Jan 2011 at 22:36

Public torrents? Don't expect 50Mb/s.

oHUTCHYo · 14 Jan 2011 at 22:49

I understand that guys, but what Im saying is its not comparable to when I had 10mb.

Surveyor · 14 Jan 2011 at 23:02

Have you opened a port in the router for uTorrent?

Sh4rkie · 14 Jan 2011 at 23:04

Traffic shaping?

I know if i resign my O2 connection i'll be bandwidth managed but as it stands i'm an old customer on the old contract so they don't play with my connection. Maybe the upgrade they've applied a new bandwidth management profile to your account.

manbearpig · 14 Jan 2011 at 23:09

Depends on what you are downloading, sometimes I get 1mb/s on 50mb and through crappy powerlines, sometimes I get 5kb/s. It depends on the seeders upload speed probably more than your download.

oHUTCHYo · 15 Jan 2011 at 07:50

Sh4rkie said:
Traffic shaping?

I know if i resign my O2 connection i'll be bandwidth managed but as it stands i'm an old customer on the old contract so they don't play with my connection. Maybe the upgrade they've applied a new bandwidth management profile to your account.

This - I bet. I was ex-ntlworld!

KIA · 15 Jan 2011 at 10:08

G4ORCE said:
I understand that guys, but what Im saying is its not comparable to when I had 10mb.

It's acceptable if you're using public torrents. Try a well seeded Ubuntu torrent.