torrents

stokecity_m · 26 May 2009 at 02:17

Having trouble with bittorent.

when using it - it will max out to 1mb/sec for about 2-3 mins then drop to 5kb/sec anyone help out?

oh and just fro the record, i'm download legal torrent updates , World of warcraft ones to be precise

bad_ass_neil · 26 May 2009 at 10:10

what client you using?
what ports you running it over?
have you opened the ports up on your firewall?

how long have you left the torrents running for as they can take time to settle down.

bledd · 26 May 2009 at 10:19

and who is your isp

wij · 26 May 2009 at 10:19

More importantly who is your ISP as that to be honest looks like you're getting throttled.

stokecity_m · 26 May 2009 at 11:11

isp is virgin media.

not had this problem before.

slylittlefox · 26 May 2009 at 11:16

stokecity_m said:
isp is virgin media.

That is most likely the problem.

One other quick question: if you stop the torrent and start it again does it do the 1Mb/s-5kB/s thing again, or just carry on at 5kB/s?

stokecity_m · 26 May 2009 at 11:17

will try again to night, see how much i can download before it starts

Sin_Chase · 26 May 2009 at 11:40

Have you increased your max seeds/peers above defaults?

For every other person you connect to there is an overhead exchanging data bewteen them all, sounds like you are choking your connection/routers IP Tables with lots of connections.

stokecity_m · 26 May 2009 at 11:41

not changed anything.

it's fine for a few minutes then slows down, if i close bittorrent and restart it it jumps upto 1mb/sec for a few minutes again, and then slows.

Sin_Chase · 26 May 2009 at 11:42

Traffic Shaping, yummy.

wij · 26 May 2009 at 11:47

Is this Virgin Cable or ADSL?

Cable don't traffic shape like that, unless you've gone over the STM limit for a given time.

If it is VM ADSL though then yes you're probably just getting hit by their traffic shaping system.

bledd · 26 May 2009 at 11:49

mine's fine on cable

if i'm in a traffic shaping period, it'll be around 200kb/s

does speedtest.net look ok?

recently I had to call virgin up, they said my connection was on a server with heavy load, so they moved me onto one with more resources

stokecity_m · 26 May 2009 at 11:57

it's cable.

Cambofrog · 26 May 2009 at 12:11

You also need to limit the upload rate in your bittorrent client to around 80% of your maximum upload bandwidth. You need to keep some spare upload capacity to send acknowledgement packets for the downloaded data you recieve.

If you max out your upload bandwidth it will also affect your download speed. Also (AFAIR) your upload speed will be throttled when you have been STM'd, so take that into account.

If you are doing a large download, try to do it during the night, when you will not be affected by STM.

something daft already!! · 26 May 2009 at 12:14

Yeah as above, cap upload to about 8-18 kb/sec during the day. It's that which will kill the download, although not usually by that much.

Matteysan · 26 May 2009 at 12:25

howiepoohs said:
Yeah as above, cap upload to about 8-18 kb/sec during the day. It's that which will kill the download, although not usually by that much.

I usually put mine around 35kb/sec on 10mb cable seems to work alright, Although I guess 8-18kb/sec is ok

Cambofrog · 26 May 2009 at 12:33

Mattey1 said:
I usually put mine around 35kb/sec on 10mb cable seems to work alright, Although I guess 8-18kb/sec is ok

Yea, I have mine set at 40KB/sec upload on the 10Mb cable. Works OK if you haven't been STM'd.

Cambofrog · 26 May 2009 at 12:57

Download, upload and STM info for Virgin Media cable is here

Edit: Oops, sorry for double post.

deuse · 26 May 2009 at 14:58

Try this site
http://measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools

RichieUK · 26 May 2009 at 15:24

Sorry i can't give you any solutions to this but i use to have exactly the same issue with Azureus. Swapped over to uTorrent and haven't come across it since. But i asked in several torrent forums for a solution to it and nothing ever got rid of it :confused: