santakelev Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 i've worked with uTorrent for quite a while and never had problems. recently, i've started downloading a pretty large torrent (a movie file) , and after i leave my computer idle for an hour or so, my computer disconnetcs from the internet. also, my connection speed becomes very slow (before disconnection...).all other torrents work fine, and if i pause that specific torrent and leave all others working, everything works fine. any ideas? thx in advance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 if it's one of the torrents we can't talk about here (see Announcement!) it could be that in that case the MediaSentry guys are poisoning it and your PC is simply hitting hard from their armada of datacenter computers on their highspeed backbones which causes your network card to wave the white flag and surrenders under the packet storm from them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santakelev Posted August 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 thx,wow, didn't know it was possible to do that.... so... is there any solution for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 Or maybe this torrent has more peers he can connect to, which is overloading his connection...http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=196194#p196194 <-- do any of these help? Also, what router and modem are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 We need to know more about your connection.What's your ISP and ISP's official rated speeds Down AND Up?What are the current settings you're using...as shown by Speed Guide (CTRL+G) in µTorrent?What's your half-open limit set to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santakelev Posted August 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 i patched TCPIP.SYS, and that seemed to solve the disconnection problem. however, it still makes all other internet activities (like browsing) extremly slow. i want to follow the rest of Ultima's list but i don't know what things like DHT or Upnp means....and what i should try first... my official conection speed is 2.5 mbps d/l, and 150 kbps (i think...) u/l. i ran a spped test that says my d/l is 550 kbps and 153 u/l.my speedguide settings are : u/l limits :186 kb/s. u/l slots: 8. connections(per torrent):100. connections (global): 750. max active torrents: 9. max active downloads: 8.i'm using Conexant AccessRunner usb adsl modem, and no router. i'm not sure what "half open limit" is...if u mean my "net.max_halfopen" setting, then it is set to 8.thx again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted August 30, 2006 Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 THERE you have the problem!your values are WAAAY to high regarding conections. max torrents etc.No wonder that your Networkcard surrenders under that stress!press CTRL+G and choose in the dropdown menue the value x/192.If that value gives you still problems go down one setting!But do NOT set any values that are affected by the uploadspeed setting higher than the 192 suggestion.BT is NOT http download. More connections(higher settings) does NOT mean faster and better downloads. The opposite is the case; as you have now expirienced first hand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 30, 2006 Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 Indeed, Speed Guide was the first thing listed in my link =T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santakelev Posted August 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 yep, that seemed to solve everything!sorry, i thought u should put te closest value to ur connection speed...:/thx a lot for all ur help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 5, 2006 Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 You have confused kilobits/second bandwidth speeds with KILOBYTES/second file download speeds.There are 8 bits to a byte...and what's more BitTorrent has to do more than just 'download' and 'upload' files, so it actually takes somewhere between 9 and 10 kilobits/sec bandwidth to download (or upload) at 1 KILOBYTE/sec.Your "150 kbps" upload bandwidth is really only about 15-18 KILOBYTE/sec useable file upload speed...not the 186 KILOBYTE/sec upload speed you previously were trying to force µTorrent to use -- which was totally overwhelming your connection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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