ForeverOrbital

@ b2times It's really weird. It's actually very variable, so giving you an exact number will be very difficult. This one download I had was around 290mb and there was almost no decrease in download rate. The catch here was that the torrent was extremely high seeded and low leeched, so I felt as though every time the dl rate would start to decrease, I would catch a new seed and the dl rate would go fly high. I have set my utorrent settings to allow up to 100 connections per torrent solely for the purpose of constantly catching new seeds when the old ones are being throttled. So you can safely assume that I did not reach 100 connections for my 290 mb torrent (roughly 10 min. download). However, my second download was 1.88gb. This one seemed to reach a lower download rate after having downloaded around 190mb in roughly 10 minutes. This latter had a lower number of seeds than the previous one, but still a very popular torrent. After reloading my trackers, up to 4 times, the download just seemed to cruise through the remaining 1.5 gb which ended up being completed in around 2 hours. That's as much detail as I can give about this experience I had with reloading trackers. Thanks for the reply. OrBz

Hello, I registered to this website forum solely for this post. I apologize for not going through the 19 pages as what I am about to say may have already been said, but I just felt the need to share. I have been witnessing throttling from Bell Sympatico here in Canada. When I downloaded from utorrent, it definitely capped out at around 20-30kb/s. However, just recently I witnessed the following; when I closed utorrent, and then reclicked on my original torrent file, utorrent opened and asked me "This file has already been added to your downloads, would you like to load trackers from it". I responded "yes" and there I saw my download rate go back to its normal value... I tried this on two different torrents and they both worked. I'm not sure I exactly understand the phenomenon or what exactly is the underlying cause, however, it's working. It seems as though it takes longer for the ISP to realize a bittorrent connection since the download rate goes down (still higher than 20-30kb/s) only a considerable amount of time later. I found this method quite practical for smaller downloads. This process can be repeated more than once to get a boost (at least it worked for me), but it becomes somewhat of a pain for larger downloads... Has anyone else experienced/confirmed this? OrBz