U-Torrent Problem..

swanseajack · 13 Sep 2008 at 22:15

Anyone else on Virgin Media getting slow downloads, since upgradeing to 1.8 of u torrent mine never goes above 35kb per torrent, anyone else find this happening?

swanseajack · 13 Sep 2008 at 22:24

No matter, found an old copy of 1.7.7 and my downloads are back to what they where before 200kb+

Verzili · 13 Sep 2008 at 22:28

did you know virgin media customers using things like uttorent can have there service disconected,and possible fine for copyright infringment?

be safe

grudas · 13 Sep 2008 at 22:31

no they not

what if im downloading wallpapers? huge packs?

2-3gb i've seen a thread b4 when people get letters from virgin media for downloading games from steam?!?!?!?

swanseajack · 13 Sep 2008 at 23:07

That's what encryption, proxy servers and peerguardian are for

Not that I'm downloading anything illegal

sja360 · 14 Sep 2008 at 00:03

im with virgin here and utorrent runs great with a good amount of seeds/peers

grudas · 14 Sep 2008 at 00:14

sja360 said:
im with virgin here and utorrent runs great with a good amount of seeds/peers

seeds/peers depends on tracker?!?!? :rolleyes:

Schizophonic · 14 Sep 2008 at 00:49

Not from u-torrent but something like Rapidshare and i'm getting 1mb!

indyskyz · 14 Sep 2008 at 01:33

im with virgin too and i get great speeds i once got 1.5mb i was quite shocked tbh lol
alltho i do set it to accept the max number of connections and limit upload speed to 5kb that always gives me a boost

and try changing your port

TheCenturion · 15 Sep 2008 at 21:12

i got up to 3mb/s with virgin, sorry for waving my willy so much

grudas · 15 Sep 2008 at 21:58

anant_shah94 said:
i got up to 3mb/s with virgin, sorry for waving my willy so much

yeah u do if you on 20mb broadband

im on 10mb and my area is still not upgraded

so i get ~400kb download now

cant wait for 10mb upgrade should get close to 1mb

8BaLL · 15 Sep 2008 at 22:58

Verzili said:
did you know virgin media customers using things like uttorent can have there service disconected,and possible fine for copyright infringment?

be safe

Sorry to say but this information you have heard is slightly wrong They give out a 3 strike policy, 1st strike a warning, 2nd strike a suspended account and 3rd you will be cut off but upto date they are not allowed to pass on your details anyfurther than their company.

dubcat · 16 Sep 2008 at 01:50

i use virgin media with utorrent and recently upgraded the client. Haven't had any issues at all.

Hamster · 16 Sep 2008 at 02:34

indyskyz said:
alltho i do set it to accept the max number of connections and limit upload speed to 5kb that always gives me a boost

Nice to see you're keeping up with the spirit of sharing

Joking aside, if you increase your upload speed to a point your download speed on that torrent will usually increase, especially if there aren't a massive amount of seeders. However, it does get to a point where the speed you're uploading at will affect your overall download speeds. I've read that optimum upload speed should be 80% of your connected speed but i've found the figure that high hampers download speed. I set mine at around 65%.