utorrent download

Willis · 20 Feb 2007 at 08:20

i have vista prem 64 and installed utorrent on my machine but my torrent downloads wont seem to go over 30kbs i have checked in the settings and its set to unlimited :confused:

dirtydog · 20 Feb 2007 at 08:41

Did you have better speeds in XP then?

Is utorrent set up correctly, eg. port forwarding, and are you using a torrent with a lot of seeders? If your ISP traffic shapes, have you enabled encryption?

Basically slow speeds could be a lot of things.

iMacMart · 20 Feb 2007 at 08:48

I only have my upload set to 18kbps as high upload kills my download, I'm on NTL 10meg and can get up to 9meg down on some torrents on Vista still!?!?

Bang 'utorrent tweaking' in Google and theres lots of tips and tricks to help!!

.:MBK:. · 20 Feb 2007 at 08:50

sounds like a firewall/port shaping getting in the way...or its just a poor torrent

Willis · 20 Feb 2007 at 08:56

right just had a mess about with it and if i change up my upload speed then my download speed goes up but then my IE runs pig slow

dirtydog · 20 Feb 2007 at 08:59

Limit your download speed then.

modo77 · 20 Feb 2007 at 09:03

Just set them both at 3/4ish and browsing will be fine, and you get good speeds.

Nefarious · 20 Feb 2007 at 09:27

It's nice to see that the community spirit of torrenting is still alive.....

I hope all you guys at least whack your upload speeds up once you're seeding!

Willis · 20 Feb 2007 at 09:30

right found a sweet spot now Download/unlimited and upload/25kbs -

modo77 · 20 Feb 2007 at 09:36

Nefarious said:
It's nice to see that the community spirit of torrenting is still alive.....

I hope all you guys at least whack your upload speeds up once you're seeding!

So you think I should cripple my internet connection so I can upload things a bit faster to other people. I don't think so. I always upload 150% just a little slower.

Nefarious · 20 Feb 2007 at 09:42

modo77 said:
So you think I should cripple my internet connection so I can upload things a bit faster to other people. I don't think so. I always upload 150% just a little slower.

As I said - I hope you upload a bit more when you're seeding. If people want to be able to download at 9-10 Mbps they have to realise that's because someone else's connection is crippled for their benefit. If you have a ratio like tweakinfreak where you download at 9Mbps and only upload at 0.017Mbps it is relying heavily on those out there who don't abuse the BT system.

iMacMart · 20 Feb 2007 at 09:57

Nefarious said:
As I said - I hope you upload a bit more when you're seeding. If people want to be able to download at 9-10 Mbps they have to realise that's because someone else's connection is crippled for their benefit. If you have a ratio like tweakinfreak where you download at 9Mbps and only upload at 0.017Mbps it is relying heavily on those out there who don't abuse the BT system.

I leave my torrents uploading for days after downloading as I work aways from home

But thanks for the tip :rolleyes:

MTA99 · 20 Feb 2007 at 11:34

Nefarious said:
If people want to be able to download at 9-10 Mbps they have to realise that's because someone else's connection is crippled for their benefit.

Not necessarily. If the torrent is popular (like a recent linux release for example), there can be thousands of seeds meaning each one only contributes a small amount to the overall download speed.

As long as you give back your 150% then do it at a speed that is workable for you.

snowdog · 20 Feb 2007 at 12:32

Usually set my upload limit to 45 kb/sec, and 20 when gaming, out of my total of 70 kb upload, reason is beacause i don't want my parents to experience slow internet, i'm only one out of 4 pc's on this single 5 mb connection...

As for speed, try joining a private tracker, you may need to keep your share high (usually minimal 0.5, 1.05 for some extra privelges) but that can be archieved easely by uploading at night...
On the tracker in question i usually get full speed 500kb/sec and my mate wich also is registred downloads a 1.2 megabytes/sec from it, the torrents are really ultra fast.