StoneX Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Hi,I've done a search and found a few results but none of them seem to answer my question. This thread pretty much asked exactly what I want to know but the answers are not clear to me.I have a 512kbps/128kbps connection and have the max d/l limit set to 48kB/s and u/l to 12kB/s. I had 2 active torrents downloading at about 2-5kB/s each(20% max speed because they're just slow torrents) which isn't really making the most of d/l bandwidth and uploading at 10-12kB/s together(full speed). So i'm wondering if there is ANY way of making the software automatically start downloading extra torrents in the queue if the current download rate is below a certain speed?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Not at the moment. And with your connection speed, you shouldn't really be running more than 2 torrents anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Try disabling DHT, UPnP, lowering half-open connection limit (in µTorrent) to 4-6, and reducing upload speed max to 8-10 KB/sec.Also reduce overall connections and connections per torrent a little bit.What's your upload slots per torrent set to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneX Posted July 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Thanks for the replies.DHT and UPnP are already disabled. I had half open connections set to 30 as I had set XP's limit to 50, i've changed it down to 6 now. Overall connections is 130, max number of connections per torrent is 16 and upload slots per torrent is 3.I don't think it's a setting as it will run at full speed with certain torrents, it's just the ones with low seeds and peers that go slow, so I was hoping for the software to notice that and automatically start an extra one to get a little more out out my d/l bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Why have max connections allowed as high as 130, if you're only wanting 3 torrents at a time with 16 connections each?The point of such conservative settings is to eliminate some of the overheads that eat into your download speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneX Posted July 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 I just followed this guide which said to set "Global maximum number of connections" to the same number as your upload rate in kb/s, so I rounded 128 to 130.What would be a conservative setting for that? 3 x 16 = 48? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 50 or 60 max connections would work fine and even handle "overconnection" states due to very slow torrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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