SlowMotion Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Hi, I'm new here and getting kind of desperate.Downloads won't go higher then 1 kb and through search for solutions i came to find Utorrent.I installed it and started my downloads..YAY, 69 kb which is wonderful to me.One by one they said 1 day, 2 days.. i was like ok, i cando with this but then..all downloads dropped to zero I did the speed guide at the beginning and did the speed test.My upload speed is 235 so i said in the connection settings, upload speed 235.What the heck could have happened?I would appreciate greatly any kind of suggestions.Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Perhaps you mixed something?Upload speed 235 kiloBits is not 235 kiloBytes you set up. So utorrent is misconfigured. Use the Speed-Guide and reconfigure it: http://www.utorrent.com/setup_guide.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowMotion Posted September 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Thank you for your reply You're right, i did have that mixed up but..speed test results were <dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-09-12 04:48:37 EST:1234 / 235Your download speed : 1234 kbps or 154.3 KB/sec.Your upload speed : 235 kbps or 29.4 KB/sec.>Now, it's been about 6kb/s up to 21 kb/s since a few hours, but that's it I've got it all according to advice here: upload limit: 29kb/s, Upload slots: 3, Connections per torrent: 80, Connections global: 125, Max active torrents 9 and Max active download 8.I don't do more then three at a time though.Any chance on getting the speed up yet?Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Connections global 125: use 95 (but only if TCPIP.SYS is patched to more than 95, f.e. 100).Max. active torrents: in your case, set it to 4, max. active downloads to 2 (your settings let only 1 torrent seed).Try this with the slackware torrent of the setup guide (for 5 mins. or so). If you reach your max. connection, its ok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Actually schnurlos, setting half-open limit in µTorrent equal or even 1/2 the global connection limit is a bad idea.µTorrent could end up trying more half-open connections and then connect to too many, exceeding its global connection limit.For instance if both are set to 100, there could already be 80 existing connections and still attempting to connect to 100 more. If 30 of those attempts succeed, then 10 of them will have to be immediately dropped to get back down to the global connection limit. This can cause all sorts of odd and intermittent problems.I agree that Max active torrents should probably be limited to 4 or fewer. Otherwise, you're spreading your upload speed too thin and may get little or nothing back in return from the vast majority of peers you connect to.From my own personal experience with 35-42 KB/sec upload speed max for my connection...using less than 3 upload slots PER torrent results in my upload speed not always staying max. But I cannot run lots of torrents at once with upload slots per torrent set at 4 or more...or I end up uploading at 35-42 KB/sec but downloading at less than 40 KB/sec total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flaco Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 my speed sucks is dsl bad for utorrent or is that i configured it bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 @Switeck, where did I say something of half-open limits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 schnurlos said: "Connections global 125: use 95 (but only if TCPIP.SYS is patched to more than 95, f.e. 100)."The number you are patching in TCPIP.SYS is half-open connections because it defaults to 10 in Win XP SP2.It has no effect on total number of active connections, only on how fast you can start NEW connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 I meant: instead of using 125, he should use 95 in utorrent, set windows to 100 with TCPIP.SYS ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 That's rather high. More like 50-80 is enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 If anything, if his half-open limit is high...his global connection max needs to be high(er) as well to handle the occassional circumstance of lots of connections being made at once.Even a half-open limit of 20 is excessive for most broadband connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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