paokun Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 hi everyone,i just wanted to ask you why, even if i have a 512KB/s (4Mb/s) connection, i cannot get the top speed of it but i reach usually about 120-150KB/s. although i am pretty satisfied of it, i just cannot understand why i reach about 480KB/s speed just when i found those who seed me with 100KB/s or even more.my upload speed is around 48KB/s (384Kb/s), so according to the wizard i should give 35KB/s to upload. the fact is that trying to change the upload speed between 5KB/s and 35KB/s, i've found that i reach top speeds when i choose 10KB/s as the upload speed. i'd like to understand why is that, i assure you that if i increase it the download speed decreases.i also would like to ask why on http://ut-settings.go.pl/ the advised speed settings change.having a 4Mb-384Kb/s connection, what do you think are the BEST settings for me to reach the higher download speed possible? there must be someone out there who has my same speed connection and reaches high speed downloads ;-)is there a very fast torrent so that i can check my top speed?now my settings are:total connections: 384total peers per torrent: 48upload slots: 2upload speed: 10KB/si assure you that with these settings it seems that i get the higher download speed.does any of you know of a better way to tweak these settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Don't bother with that site, stick to the Speed Guide. I have 5mbps/384kbps and am able to reach max speeds fine selecting xx/384k on this torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paokun Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 thanks for the reply, but just after i selected those settings my speed decreased to 30KB/s and compared with the 120-150 average of the other settings i must keep them..i really wonder why, now i have changed them again and it's fast again.and also, with that torrent i get a tracker error (maybe it's temporary) and i cannot even download it.anyway everything looks fine with the present settings, i just wonder why the speed doesnt increase and if i put the 'right' settings it just decreases a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 No tracker error here, which means something's wrong on your end. Did you patch TCPIP.sys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 If you don't set the upload speed while downloading very high, could you at least use a higher value like 35 KB/sec while only seeding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paokun Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 hi,sorry for the late reply but it was night here so i got some sleep.i had just patched the tcpip.sys, so after rebooting the system i could download that file.the speed was about 200KB/s with any settings, i guess it's because whatever my upload speed is, i'm not seeding much because everyone has already got the 100% of the file.it seems like whatever i do, if while i download the upload speed is over 10KB/s my download slows down.with 10KB/s upload speed i average 100KB/s of download with 1/1 seed and 7/14 peers, which i think it's not bad.i think that there are far too many variables to identify the best download speed, and it can probably change completely depending on how many seeds/peers there are. the best probably would be to try a torrent where there are not just a lot of seeds, but also a lot of people who are downloading it at the same time, so one can tweak the settings according to the upload speed.if just by downloading openoffice, the upload speed is almost 0 so it's hard to change settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 No... 10KiB/s upload should not be affecting your download if your upload speed is really 384kbit/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paokun Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 10KB/s does not affect my download speed but i see a fairly high decrease if i set it up to 15KB/s. if i dont set any limit, the upload speed goes up to 48KB/s as it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Select xx/384k and run the torrent again. I fail to understand how the settings recommended on that page, which are too extreme, would help a connection that sounds rather overloaded at this point.Additionally, what router are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paokun Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 ok i could download it in 5'25" at 475KB/s top speed and 345KB/s average, which is really great ;-) WOWbut for example now that i'm downloading something else, why in the list of IPs there are 52 IP numbers and i'm downloading just from 14 or 15? The present speed is just around 30KB/s.oh yes and i'm using the utstar r300r2u which never caused me any problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Assuming your ports are forwarded properly, then it would appear that everything's configured fine (since the test torrent runs quickly), and the problems you're experiencing lie only with the torrents you're running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paokun Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 yeah i guess you're right, but for example now i downloaded the same torrent with these settings:upload limit: 10slots upload: 3connections per torrent: 70total connections: 350max torrents: 5max downloads: 5result: 4'55", so as i said the proper settings should be changed by checking the speed with less seeded torrents, because in less seeded torrents if i keep the upload speed at 10KB/s my downloads are much faster than 30KB/s (they reach 100KB/s) and i can even have 3-4 downloads running at the same time.well for the moment rather than following the configuration wizard it's better to try and try again to change settings one value at a time to match the fastest speed. or maybe it's better just being satisfied when the speed is acceptable even if not at top levels ;-)i think the speed issue is the only feature that needs to be improved. although having the 'green light' already sounds like 'being in heaven', the next problem is to reach the maximum speed allowed by the connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 That isn't a problem with µTorrent. That's a problem with the torrents themselves or some other outside factors like software, hardware, or ISP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 You might get better results with TCP Optimizer from www.speedguide.netIf the receive window is too small or the MTU is too small, then I'd expect to see huge drops in download raising upload speed from 10 KB/sec to 20 KB/sec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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