Oshimai Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Hi, Starting off, I'll say that I AM getting decent speeds already. I'm behind a Motorola SBG900 that has not been Port Forwarded. (Default ID/PW does not work. Owner has no idea what they might be and I haven't reset it). ISP is Comcast Cable with 8MB connection.Basically it's just a general question that I've noticed on every BT client that I've used. (BT, BitTornado, BitComet, and uTorrent.) When I start a torrent, especially one that has a lot of seeds, in this case a torrent from IsoHunt, showing 3431 Seeds and 7615 peers, I am getting connections like this: 21 (3431) and 52 (7615).My question is (after searching thru 8 pages of Gen Discussion) why am I not connecting to more users? I'm getting just a fragment of the actual seeders that are out there. I have been able to get speeds of 100k/sec on my laptop and my desktop at home gets faster but you can never be fast enough. lolThanks for the advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Look at your max connections per torrent. At any rate, you're not supposed to be connecting to all of them. Trying to is entirely useless, and creates even more overhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Ultima, I think he has something there. I have also noticed that with version 1.6 in some torrents, but did not pay too much attention to it ... Usually in time - it gets more peers, but not always.I noticed one thing though (that may be nothing...) - look in the general tab - the numbers for seeds are : X of Y (=~X to 2*X) and for peers: Z of W (W>>Z)like: 70 of 100 seeds and 100 of 800 peers, and the traffic window show always Y to be much bigger - like 70 (350) . I wonder why ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 There are differences between what the tracker reports as the number of peers, and the actual number (including those aggregated from DHT and/or PEX), aren't there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 maybe, but why the difference ? what is "X of Y connected" ? Y is ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Y is what µTorrent previously connected to and verified as whatever it is (seed or peer).Edit: Added "previously" for clarity, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 I thought this was 'X' ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 X is how many you're currently connected to. Y is the total that µTorrent previously connected to (past tense) and identified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 edit: you've guessed right... define "previously" last min, day, year ? ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Y's how many are in the peer cache at that point in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 and why are those in the cache ? in what state are they - connected to ? not DLing from them ? is this the # that is limitted by the max connections per torrent or X is ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 They might be connected or not. The client keeps a cached list of peers (what you see when you copy the peerlist), simple as that. After 30 minutes of no contact and not being present in the list from the tracker or something, that peer is removed from the internal peerlist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Thanks for the info. the ones that count with regard to the maximum specified are the 'x' ones then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 x are currently connected, so yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Lance-O Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 I found this thread using Google, and it's the EXACT problem I am having at the moment.Whenever I download a torrent, either one of three following things happen:[Note: Before you ask, I never download torrents with few seeds, I am always downloading movies so they are pretty popular]1: The download speed fluctuates at pretty dramatic state. One moment it will be 100kbps, the next, 80, 60, then eventually all the way down to about 5-10. It will go back up to 100kbps, but will continue to fluctuate in the same way until the end of the download.2. The download will never go above 20kbps, and fluctuates how I described above, but sticks more to the lower spectrum of speed (i.e 0-4kbps).3. Downloads at good speeds (100kbps-200-kbps) but still fluctuates.Another thing you should know is that I am using Ubuntu Linux (Feisty Fawn 7.04) and running uTorrent under WINE. I've looked up everything I can on the Ubuntu Forums, but with no luck.I really hope we can figure this out, I am sick of waiting for 2 days for one download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 You said download speed in all three sections.Don't you mean upload speed in some of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Lance-O Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 The upload speed is always pretty good, and when it's really low (0-4kbps) it is sometimes higher than the download speed.But I actually never usually pay attention to the upload speed haha!I just want that shiz to download! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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