hojuturtle Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Hi all.I just started using utorrent and experiencing drop outs of the ADSL connectionduring downloads. It occurs about every 2 hours or so. Very annoying.I've read other faqs and it seems theres no solution for it. Is it the modem firmware problem?Please help.many thanks.PS. I have followed the setup guide , port forwarding ..,everything seems to be fine. getting decent speed too.Im using 24M/1M ADSL. (average 250kbps/ 100kbps),Netcomm NB5 .I've make sure my upload speed /global connection is reasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=196194#p196194 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Do you have a router?If so, what brand?Could you list the settings you're using as shown in Speed Guide (CTRL+G)?Also, what's your half-open connection limit set to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdjdnsjax Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 I have a Billion BiPac 5100 4 port ADSL modem/router.Upload limit: 15kBpsUpload slots: 30Connections (per torrent): 150Connections (global): 600Max active torrents: 6Max active downloads: 2I too have followed the setup guide and tweaked a few other settings as can be seen here. The speeds are fine, but my modem locks up also about every few hours, and needs to be physically restarted.This problem doesn't happen with Azureus, but I also have seen less connections and stuff for Azureus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 So it seems you didn't bother reading my link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Ok, whether you know it or not...your settings qualifies you as worse than a "pure" leech.You are only uploading at 15 KB/sec total...yet splitting it 30 ways PER torrent with up to 6 torrents at once.With 6 torrents, that's 180 TOTAL upload slots! Each one can get 0.083 KB/sec.The connection overhead to keep up with all that eats into your real upload bandwidth to the point that it probably runs like a dog (websurfing slows way down for instance) and may even crash unstable networking hardware and software!...you mentioned something about your modem crashing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdjdnsjax Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 So can you please change the settings I have to values that are better suited.Thanks.PS: I never know about the pure leacher thing either. I always left my downloaded stuff to seed, but I was always wondering why it never got seeded more than a like 5 or 6 mb, even after many weeks of seeding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Assuming there's a reason for the slow upload speed, I'll show a balanced set of numbers based on uploading at 15 KB/sec:Upload limit: 15kBpsUpload slots: 3Connections (per torrent): 60Connections (global): 80Max active torrents: 2Max active downloads: 2The 80 connections max and 60 per torrent will probably mean the first torrent to start gets the 'lions share' of the connection and should finish first. When it goes into seeding mode, it will drop all connected seeds and allow the next torrent a moment to connect to more people to get better download speeds.Trying to start lots of torrents at once will mean new torrents will start when each download finishes (instead of seeding each to >100%) unless you set seeding priority to true. This is VERY important to enable to prevent being banned from private trackers for downloading without returning the favor.Even this will only be uploading at 2.5 KB/sec per upload slot...a little on the low side, but about all that can be done with only 15 KB/sec upload if you're wanting to offer what you hope to receive in return.I'm a firm believer that 2 or more upload slots PER torrent are neccessary to "find" fast connections to upload back to you, however going much higher than 10 total upload slots with anything short of 40+ KB/sec upload speeds causes the law of diminishing returns to render the extra upload slots worthless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Aren't those settings rather low for a 1mbit-upload connection...? And I still feel like my posts are being ignored here... -.- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Yes, 15 KB/sec is rather low...but I used that value on the understanding that the poster may have a reason (ISP throttling/shared internet connection with multiple p2p programs going/bad router...) for setting it so low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdjdnsjax Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 I just want to thank you for your kind help Switeck.I really appreciate your advise and hope I too can pass this knowledge onto a newbie some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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