fester2001 Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 2 weeks ago i installed vista, up untill this point i have had nice fast downloads on a 512/128k linkutorrent was always downloading 40-50k a secnow ever since i moved from xpmce to vista all i can get is 15-21kI went over the following sticky and tryed all sugestionshttp://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992at once stage if i manualy put my download limit at 50k and my upload limit at 90k it would sometimes get itself to 40k but then drop back to 20 kthe status light is greenChecking port 58000 on 124.xxx.xxx.xxx..OK! Port 58000 is open and accepting connections.Current speed guide settins: - I have played with these setting extensivelyconnection type xx/128upload limit - 9kbconnections per torrent 55max active torrents 1upload slots 3connections global 80max downloads 1Encryption is enabledWindows firewall is off, have tryed with it on, and i have setup the utorrent port to pass though it anti virus is avg freeroutor is a billion 7300G firmware 1.29Isp being used is WildITconnection is adsl 512/128edit: if i download a file or something from the web im getting 50k/sec download speeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 If you set your upload too high, it overloads your download too...and download speeds tumble even though upload speeds remain about the same.With 128 kilobits/sec upload bandwidth max, the fastest you could even theoretically upload is 16 KiloBYTES/sec. But due to TCP protocol overheads, BitTorrent protocol overheads, and having lots of connections at once...you'll be lucky to sustain 10 KiloBYTES/sec upload speed in µTorrent.Vista's max half open rate is only 5, unlike Win XP SP2's default max of 10. So you must reduce µTorrent's rate from the default of 8 to only 2-4, or bad things will happen!Supposedly, the same patch program to up Win XP SP2's max half open rate can change Vista's...but I think it only works on certain builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fester2001 Posted March 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 Supposedly, the same patch program to up Win XP SP2's max half open rate can change Vista's...but I think it only works on certain builds.you mean the reg hack?also when i made the settings you recommended (speed and change half open) my speed didn't alter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 No, I mean the 3rd party patch program. It is not a registry hack.I can only give this as further ideas to try:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992...my guess is hopefully it's just UPnP, DHT, or resolve peer ips that's causing the slowdowns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fester2001 Posted March 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 hrm after spending another hour on it this morning it seems that by setting the net.max_halfopen to 80 its working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 net.max_halfopen set to 80 *SHOULD* cause all kinds of problems, at least on Vista or an unpatched Win XP SP2!That value is really not meant to be set above 20 except in EXTREME cases such as 100+ megabits/sec connections.If doing that is necessary to get "good" results, then you have something else (severely?) wrong on either your networking or settings.My guess is your ISP may be interfering by dropping BitTorrent connections rapidly, so you're trying to overcome this by making LOTS more connections all at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fester2001 Posted March 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 I would agree but utorrent runs perfectly fine on my laptop running xpsp2 with the same isp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war59312 Posted March 9, 2007 Report Share Posted March 9, 2007 EventID 4226 Patcher does not work on Windows Vista even after giving it full access:- Windows mode - Recognised Windows-directory: C:\Windows - UNKNOWN TCPIP.SYS detected ... It is recommend to STOP right now! - Build of TCPIP.SYS : 6.0.6000.16386 (I386) - Build of safety copy: 5.1.2600.2892 (I386) (will be overwritten due to changed version) Error detecting position to patch! Either file format changed or no limit exists. Please check for a new version on ... Patch aborted ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turkleton Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 This site describes setting the net.bind_ip parameter to solve Vista/uTorrent issues. It worked for me - worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fester2001 Posted March 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 i have suddenly found that going back to version 161 beta fixes all my problems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agnostoman Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 This site describes setting the net.bind_ip parameter to solve Vista/uTorrent issues. It worked for me - worth a try.OnlineWorked like a charm for me! Went from 5 kb/sec down to 300kb/sec!! Perhaps this fix should be a sticky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pi2pi Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 hmmm, i agree i helps, but its not a full sloution as my modem changes the ip address each time i switch it off, thus i have to re-type my ip address on utorrent quite often.But since i update to utorrent ver 1.7, everthing seems to be fine. Can anyone pls help check if version 1.7 is the correct solution? Or am i just lucky....thx.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 µtorrent ver 1.7 fixes LOTS of incompatibilities with Vista and itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 Among other things, but fixing Vista support was one of the main goals of 1.7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeevik Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 I have an unresolved issues with uTorrent while running on Vista. The stability of the OS is deteriorating continuously, up to a point where I need to restart.In addition, I am not able to close uTorrent once it was initiated...(Nevertheless - the speed is excellent)This is typical to all my installations of Vista, and I have two such installations (on two separate disks) and used to have others in the past.I notice this problem exists on Vista 32B with SP1 as well as Vista without SP1.I use ZA as firewall, and have noticed some comments in forums blaming ZA for interfering with uTorrent. But if this is the case, then ZA 7 and ZA 8 are countering uTorrent the same way.Note this problem does not occur on other torrent clients like Azureus.But I like uTorrent better.Could anyone give me advice on the solution to this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 ZA is buggy -- this comment is coming from a former user (me). Do try without ZA (that is, uninstall it). Comodo is a better firewall, and is free too anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Zone Alarm probably isn't letting uTorrent close its connections properly. uTorrent won't close till then...so it doesn't close.Process Explorer SHOULD work at killing off uTorrent when it goes into zombie-mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeevik Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Process Explorer is not able to kill uTorrent on my Vista. I have to restart to do that. Even logging off is not enough as re-establishing my internet connection fails! ONLY RESTART!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stvn758 Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 My speed has dropped in the past week.Before that everything was fine, installed by itself, I even put up the peer numbers to tens of thousands and got some good speed increases - everything worked fine.Even after two clean Vista HP reloads and default settings it's pitiful. IE7 is also slow when UTorrent is on. Popular 'weekly' Torrents that usually download quickly take hours.Quite odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 zeevik,Do yourself a BIG favor...enable Microsoft Window's software firewall. (or get Comodo firewall)And uninstall Zone Alarm forever.Just because Zone Alarm isn't a complete show-stopper on Azureus doesn't make it a good program!It's so bad Azureus made a special wiki page for it:http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Zone_Alarm"Usual symptoms of this issue include but are not limited to 100% CPU usage, slow transfer speeds, corrupted files, trouble establishing incoming and outgoing transfers, complete network outages, complete system freezes, random reboots, and blue screens of death. Disabling Zone Alarm's firewall protection will not solve the problem as its filter will still be running in the background. A complete uninstallation is required. This issue is not limited to Azureus, and has been confirmed by users of many other filesharing client"(bold and underline added for emphasis)Ok, so the page is a little out of date...but given ZA's history, why tempt fate with a program that has let a LOT of people down when they really needed security and stability? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeevik Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Note I use the latest ZA 8.I think I need a program that both acts as a firewall AND as antivirus - although these distinctions sometimes blur. Comodo is just firewall. And as for windows firewall - as far as I understand it is one sided only...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 avast! anti-virus and AVG anti-virus are both free (I don't like AVG). Comodo also has an AV but it's a beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neomi Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 I recommended Bitdefender is good antivirus..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Avira's free antivirus has a top-rated scanner. Its removal abilities are reportedly sub-par, but if it prevents anything from installing itself, there'd be no point in a remover anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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