wiseguy Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 My download speed jumps up and down like crazy, why?One minute it will be downloading at 40kb + and the next it will hit below 15Kb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdArmor Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 It is just with one torrent or all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiseguy Posted October 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Every torrent I am downloading does the same. Speeds don't seem to stay steady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vurlix Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 You might need to limit your upload speed to about 80% of your connection's maximum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiseguy Posted October 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 You might need to limit your upload speed to about 80% of your connection's maximum.What if I already did that and still same problem?Are there any other reasons why this is happening?No routerFirewall = checkedutorrent settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impstek Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Try tweaking the highlighted options in the screenshot below What do you have on -maximum uploads and downloads-number of active downloads?in the same screenshot... that's how I have my utorrent set up... one port with router, firewall, and p2p security, peerguardian and BLMu just gotta try messing with your settings and/or other software that could be conflicting with utorrentSince I have a similar problem I'll share the story...when I download a torrent it will be going at 750kb/s the entire time with some uploads going @ 20-25kb/s.... when I do that I go to about only 23-27% of 1024mb physical memory.... and that is fine because the client itself isnt causing that... the speed you are downloading at is consuming that memory now when i leave the client to seed though I give it unlimited upload... and that speed always fluctuates by like 10kb/s every second or so ... I havent figured it out, maybe you guys have?uTorrent itself only eats about 15-18mb of memory most of the time... but it does seem to slow my browsing down noticably compared to azureus at compared speeds (30kb/s out of max 45kb/s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurahashi Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 I think there is some kind of problem with upload rate limits: those set up (and indicated later by utorrent) are distinctly different from the *real* network bandwith used by the application.For example, at my PC:utorrent upstream 10kB/s = 22kB/s real upstream (by DUmeter)15kB/s utorrent = 26kB/s real 20kB/s utorrent = 32kB/s realetc.To make things more complicated, the values of the downstream are almost ok (the differences are very small, 1 or 2 kB/s only)At the begining I have had the problems with unstable upload too - my upstream is 40kB/s so I thought when I use 30kB for utorrent (75%) everything should be ok, but I needed to downsize it to 22kB to make it stabilized at last.Making me wonder what cause is of this - is the overhead generated by utorrent so huge (!) or is this simple kind of calculate error in bandwith counting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juju Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 I think there is some kind of problem with upload rate limits: those set up (and indicated later by utorrent) are distinctly different from the *real* network bandwith used by the application.For example, at my PC:utorrent upstream 10kB/s = 22kB/s real upstream (by DUmeter)15kB/s utorrent = 26kB/s real 20kB/s utorrent = 32kB/s realetc.To make things more complicated, the values of the downstream are almost ok (the differences are very small, 1 or 2 kB/s only)At the begining I have had the problems with unstable upload too - my upstream is 40kB/s so I thought when I use 30kB for utorrent (75%) everything should be ok, but I needed to downsize it to 22kB to make it stabilized at last.As you ALWAYS have a 11-12k difference between utorrent ul and total ul, you must have something else that uploads this shit because utorrent gives REAL speed (I compared ul indicated by utorrent and ul indicated on the main private tracker I use, the difference is microcosmic, below 0.1k)just use some classical spyware/virus cleaner to see if it gets better afterwards (ewido security suite + ad-aware 'll do the job fairly well) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimy Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 i'm still stuck with varying speeds even with 1.17 - we're talking about a torrent with 5000 seeds! and i'm going 40kb/s my max connections is at 2000, 135 are connected. i have limited my upload speed to 80%. What the hell is making utorrent so slow?edit: and availability is @ 72.999edit2: haha speeds are up to 104.1 kb/s (but only because I added another torrent, the first is still @40kb/s :S) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingnick Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Well I'd admit I though uTorrent was slow/sporadic at first but it was just the torrents themselves and it now seems to get speeds as good as Azureus for me. Upload speed on the other hand is slow and maybe due to incorrect upload speed measurement by uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurahashi Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 As you ALWAYS have a 11-12k difference between utorrent ul and total ul, you must have something else that uploads this shit I knew that I receive that kind of advice...because utorrent gives REAL speed (I compared ul indicated by utorrent and ul indicated on the main private tracker I use, the difference is microcosmic, below 0.1k)No, it doesn't. And other clients I was trying are working correctly - well, there is always some overhead, but for sake - not 12kB/s or 30-40% of bandwidth!And I bet that some of other users, complaining here about upload yoyos have similar problem - they are trying to fit utorrent upstream limit to their net capabilities, but.. they don't know, they have to decrease it much much more (than usual advised 80%)just use some classical spyware/virus cleaner to see if it gets better afterwards (ewido security suite + ad-aware 'll do the job fairly well)Sorry, but I'm clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Thats really odd.. Ill try measuring my speeds with DUmeter and report. I really dont think its the case for everyone besides a few very select users. My connection would have died completely if i had more then 3-4kB/s difference in the speeds going up, And i didnt even get a single disconnection or timeout while uTorrent is uploading at full capped speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingnick Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Well I have trouble uploading faster than 50KB/sec despite the fact I have a 128KB/sec upstream. On Azureus I frequently upload at ~100KB/sec. I also CANNOT seem to upload to more than 10 others peers with any file even after changing the max number of upload spots per torrent higher. I use Azureus to seed mainly and if I can't find the problem with µTorrent's poor seeding ability I'm going to have to defect back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurahashi Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Update (if anyone cares, that is): when I'm only seeding torrents the differences between upload rate set in utorrent and real bandwidth usage are getting much smaller - around 2-4kB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I also CANNOT seem to upload to more than 10 others peers with any file even after changing the max number of upload spots per torrent higher. Thats wild cuz whatever I set my uploads slots to, I always go over. If its 4, I wind up uploading to 6. If its 10, I wind up uploading to 12. (It never goes higher than 2 extra for me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimy Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 I've noticed that when utorrent has 3-5 torrents the download speed is larger than the upload speed. otherwise, i upload faster than i download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTorrentUser Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Not for me. I download much faster with upload choking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimy Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 hmm, i wonder what causes it. i've noticed that utorrent tends to upload faster for me with one torrent, but after a couple of hours of usage, total downloaded starts to catch up to total uploaded :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antidot Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 mhmm, i almost have the same Problems...I got a 8.73 GB sized Download and my speed jumps between 6 and max. 20 Kb/s ... Seeds 3 of 8(6 in swarm) Peers 36 of 138(120 in swarm)I cant get this download faster... as im a newb i dont know what even the meaning of swarm aso is.But i experienced lot faster downloads with less peers and seeds.And i hav to limit my UL to 18Kb/s otherwise ill never get above 10 k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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