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Calneon

Calneon

Calneon

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I get really slow speeds even when there are thousands of seeds and peers. One torrent is showing 15(1100) seeds and 32(2700) peers. However, i have forwarded the port im using and it says it's ok when i do the port checker.

The icon on the bottom seems to change between green, yellow, and red quite a lot. It's currently on red and im getting about 10kbps download total. I don't know why because the port is forwarded correctly. Would it be because i have a router and a modem in the network?
 
Calneon said:
15(1100) seeds and 32(2700) peers
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That's not a particulary good seed: peer ratio, especially if it's a public tracker.

I get full download speed from a private trackers with 100 seeds and 2 peers. 1.6MB/s and potentially much higher.

Also (IMO), uTorrent is pants for high speed downloads. It limits my download speed to 20KB/s because i'm "downloading too fast". I've tried increasing cache but it doesn't help. I use Azureus (vuse with classic UI) and it's absolutely perfect.
 
It might be your ISP capping your connection, my last ISP used to cap my connection when downloading torrents.

Sometimes you need to wait awhile before a torrent picks up speed, it might say it has 1000s of seeds and peers, but that might not have been updated.

With torrents you can never guarantee constant speed, you just have to be patient.
 
Calneon said:
Virgin.
Windows firewall is not blocking uTorrent.
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I'm pretty sure Virgin throttle BitTorrent traffic nowadays: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/virgin_bittorrent/

You can run a check here to confirm.

asim18 said:
Also (IMO), uTorrent is pants for high speed downloads. It limits my download speed to 20KB/s because i'm "downloading too fast". I've tried increasing cache but it doesn't help. I use Azureus (vuse with classic UI) and it's absolutely perfect.
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uTorrent works fine for me, with a healthy swarm I can easily max out my Be* connection in both directions... :confused:
 
CaptainCrash said:
Im I can easily max out my Be* connection in both directions... :confused:
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Glad it's working for you mate.

I reinstalled vista several months ago and thought I'd use uTorrent for a change, instead of Azureus.

Installed it, started a new download from a private tracker. It went straight to full speed, 1.6MB/s. Then just a few mins later, a message came up saying my hard drive was too slow and it needs to limit the speed to under 20KB/s.

This was on a brand new WD Black 640GB I bought especially for downloads, so I thought "wtf?". Tried to fix it, couldn't, so went straight back to Azureus.
 
asim18 said:
Glad it's working for you mate.

I reinstalled vista several months ago and thought I'd use uTorrent for a change, instead of Azureus.

Installed it, started a new download from a private tracker. It went straight to full speed, 1.6MB/s. Then just a few mins later, a message came up saying my hard drive was too slow and it needs to limit the speed to under 20KB/s.

This was on a brand new WD Black 640GB I bought especially for downloads, so I thought "wtf?". Tried to fix it, couldn't, so went straight back to Azureus.
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That's weird... out of interest, these are my settings under Advanced > Disk Cache:


Override automatic cache size: checked, manually set to 1024MB

Reduce memory usage when cache not needed: unchecked

Enable caching of disk writes: checked

Write out untouched blocks every 2 mins: unchecked

Write out finished pieces immediately: unchecked

Enable caching of disk reads: checked

Turn of read caching if upload is slow: unchecked

Remove old blocks from the cache: unchecked

Increase automatic cache size when cache thrashing: unchecked

Disable Windows caching of disk writes: unchecked

Disable Windows caching of disk reads: unchecked


I had no speed problems with the default settings, downloading to a 500MB Samsung T166 (theoretically slower than yours) - I just wanted to minimise disk thrashing as much as possible.

Maybe it's something odd about the WD's firmware - still, if Azureus works OK then I guess if it isn't broke don't fix it...

chrisxuk said:
How do you go about getting private trackers?
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Discreetly. :)
 
My ISP is BT and they cut my speed when using uTorrent. I simply restart my router and normal speed is resumed.
Sometimes they limit it again with in 5 minutes and sometimes its hours in which case I restart it again.
They never limit the measly upload speed though.
 
utorrent is a funny one. Sometimes I can get easily 2mb down 200kbps up on torrents other times I struggle to get 200kbps down lol
 
A lot of the public torrents connect to trackers that are 1 way only, so they allow a connection but will only upload from you. Have seen this problem with PB more and more so tend not to use PB anymore. Private torrent sites even with a few seeds and I'm downloading at my max speeds but then you have to keep seeding to maintain your ratio.
 
I would imagine most people are too tight to cough up a £5-£10 monthly subscription to use their (admittely awesome) servers
 
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