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neoKushan

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  1. I'd just like to report some good news with using the latest beta (1.9, build 13910). I'm currently at my Dad's house and he has a very cheap ADSL modem/Router. Years ago when it was a decent model (it was supplied by the ISP, it later gave up the ghost after many good years of service), torrents were no trouble at all. The service was a 2Mbit service at the time (capped at this rate) and I was able to max it out with ease. Now the cap has been lifted to about 3Mbit (maximum this line can handle due to distance from exchange), but the cheap router was giving me all sorts of issues. It seemed to have some sort of weird limit on the number of open connections it would allow. uTorrent would report incoming connections and when I did the port-forward test, it would report ok. Then, after about...5mins, the port-forward test would fail. Changing the port and/or resetting the router would allow it to pass, but the same thing would happen after about 5mins. Similarly, closing utorrent and opening it again would let it pass for about 5 more mins. The end result was the torrents would go painfully slow (often around 10Kb/s, usually less but occasionally would spurt up to maybe 30Kb/s for a few mins then drop back down), even though I'd have a green tick. I tested this by downloading Ubuntu, normally I'd be able to max out my 24Mbit connection (at home) on this, but here it'd be the same thing - about 10Kb/s at most, but averaging around 7kb/s. 56kbps speeds on a 3Mbit connection was not good. The actual connection was fine, directly downloading files would be effortless and I could easily get about 250Kb/s, sometimes more. As far as I'm aware, the ISP doesn't do any kind of traffic shaping so I put it down to the crappy router (It really is cheap, it doesn't even have a brand and cost something like £15 new) and it's weird port-forwarding stuff. Anyhoo, to cut a long story short, this beta version of uTorrent doesn't seem to be affected by the router's crappyness, I'm guessing this is the UDP stuff at work. I'm no expert, but I'd assume that the router's limited number of connections only applies to TCP and not UDP, or maybe the protocol works differently, I don't know, all I know is that I'm easily getting 250Kb/s on most decent Torrents thanks to this. I'm not saying everyone will get better speeds, I'm aware that for most people this build should be slower, I just thought I'd report the happy coincidence of it being faster in this presumably rare case. Can't wait until I'm back home on my 24mbit.
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