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Gospel truth ! That made me think - I will call them tomorrow. We will see what they say. I see. Well, let me concern to 1c3d0g's sticky guide now: This way we always get the average upload speed per one peer = circa 4 kB Am I right ? If so, wouldn't it be a better idea to divide it by 2 ? If my Global maximum upload rate is for example 16 then I can open 8 slots. So that every uploading peer will get about 2 KB. Thank you MietmaN

Hi ! Thank you for sharing your experiences MietmaN ! Yeah. In such cases you don't have to worry about your download speed and you can also give a lot more data to every connected peer. That's very honest and sensible. So, maybe that was the reason I got much better download by increasing the number of peers per torrent (see my first post here). Maybe the torrent was not seeded as well as I thought. This is exactly what I always do after my downloading is finished. Most often I seed until the ratio is 1.0 (100%) as I always use my crass ADSL What do you mean by 'pathetic' ? What is a pathetic upload speed in your opinion ? What is the threshold ? 1 kBps/peer, 2 kBps/peer ? (1c3d0g mentioned about 1 kBps) In my opinion the torrent net could work much better if these ADSL connections had not so limited upload speeds. 1024/128 or 2048/192, isn't it a huge disproportion between the speeds ?

I was thinking about it today. You are right, it is really difficult to find the right ratio as the swarm changes dynamically. So we would have to monitor this continuously and choose the right value. But... it is possible for a programmer (the author of a bittorrent client) to create such a dynamic changing formula depending on the swarms activity. In my opinion it could be a really crucial feature !

Thanks for your nice reply and all your explanations ! OK, I understand. Well, one idea has just occurred to me now. We can make something like the statistics. We can observe and monitor what is the average ratio between all and well-seeded swarms. I think it is fairly recurrent in a net. We can make several tests to find the best value. Then we will be able to create a better formula. For example: (after all our tests) the ratio is 10% (10 well-seeded for 100 peers) So the formula for the Maximum number of connected peers per torrent would be: MNOCPPT = (10 * all peers) / 100 Of course we also have to include all seeds as the Maximum number of connected peers per torrent is related not only to peers. It refers to seeds + peers. We can also modify this value and make it dependent on the max. upload speed. Do you think it is possible to find such a formula ? yeah, I see. That IS a good idea. Unfortunately I suppose there are many such people. I call them VULTURES :mad:

Hi ! Let me join your nice discussion I have already read many guides about configuring bittorrent clients. Many of them related directly to uTorrent. I'd like to talk about two of all available settings: - Global maximum number of connections and - Maximum number of connected peers per torrent I completely agree with: But I think it also depends on the number of current active jobs. If I always have only one active job in a queue then I think I can set Maximum number of connected peers per torrent as high as my Global maximum number of connections. Am I right ? Also, how can I understand the recommended value for Maximum number of connected peers per torrent ? What does this value derive from ? Is it just found by experiments and test ? I use 1024/192 kbps connection. I always have only one active torrent. After the downloading is finished I start seeding it with my max. upload speed. I always seed the torrents till the ratio reaches 100%. So I can't say I don't play fair. Isn't the recommended Maximum number of connected peers per torrent too low in such case for me ? In my case it is 24 according to the rule (192/8). With this value I can get max. download speed = 40-50 kB/s for a very well seeded torrent. When I increase the value to 200 I am able to achieve up to 190 kB/s. Thanks for all your posts in this great discussion ! Greets !