dan7712 Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Ports are open and it tells me that they are. But I am connecting to hardly any peers to what I used to. I am using utorrent 1.6.Are there any changes that could have changed to make me not being able to connect to many seeds / peers?I am using a 2wire 1800HG router and my ISP is BT (British Telecom) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Are you using torrents that definetly have many peers and seeds?Try some of the more popular torrents listed on http://linuxtracker.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan7712 Posted October 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Yep - There are def peers and seeds in there. One torrent I am DLing there is 54 seeds, connected to 2 and 2846 peers and connected to 15 of them. I always used to connect to loads more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Is the network status light green? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan7712 Posted October 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Yep - As I said the ports are all forwarded and utorrent says they are too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Speed Guide -- what does it show all your settings to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan7712 Posted October 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 Connection Type xx/192K (speed test showed upload to be 370kbs)Upload Limite 17kB/sConnections (per-torrent) 55Max Actice torrents 1Upload slots 3Connectons (global) 90Max Active downloads 1Port 1720 (opened and tested - all ok)I have set my Max half open connections to 40, it was 80. I have used the windows XP patch to do the same on my XP.Also My router keeps dropping connection every so oftern when I am using torrents. Changing the port temperary fixes this problem. Any long term solution? My ISP is BT (British Telecom) I also have a 2wire 1800HG routerAlso, when I am using torrents it is basicaly imposible to browse the web at the same time as it is very slow and keeps giving me errors.I have a 8mb connection. I know it isn't that fast but surly I should be getting faster speeds that 110kB/s on two torrents?The two torrents I am downloading, One is 1(310) seeds and 8(2583) peers and has a 10kB/s download. While the other one is 3(76) seeds and 17(1363) peers andhas a download speed of 100kB/s.I always remember my torrents connectiong to more seeds / peers than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 net.max_halfopen is supposed to be at LEAST 20% less than the limit set in TCPIP.sys, for one... Secondly, have you disabled UPnP and DHT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nf0rc3r Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 5 Seeds serving over 2000 peers. All these peers are trying to connect to the seeds and also to other peers. Using everyone's upload slots. They have no upload slots for you.. try other torrents.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 His last post showed that the swarm's peer to seed ratio isn't really the issue, and his problem pertains to the total number of peers and seeds connected, not simply seeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan7712 Posted October 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 Secondly, have you disabled UPnP and DHT?I have disabled UPnP but not DHT. What affect will this have on the number of peers / seeds I connect to?BTW, thanks for all your help. I really appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 I hope you took the net.max_halfopen note into account. IIRC, 2wire devices don't support UPnP, so it's safe to disable it (I presume you forwarded your ports manually, right?). As for DHT, you don't really need it unless you are not getting any peers from the tracker, or the torrent is nearly dead. 2wires can't handle all that many "connections" simultaneously, so DHT would probably kill the router anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan7712 Posted October 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 net.max_halfopen - Yeah I put that down to 40 in utorrent and my XP is patched to take 80I have now disabled DHT and yes, i have forwarded my port manualy.I will see if this makes any difference. Anything else at all I can do to make me connect to more seeds / peers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 Select xx/384k instead of xx/192k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan7712 Posted October 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 I am still having problems connecting to peers / seedsI have followed what you have said here and nothing seems to work.My router is also dropping out alot. It will keep losing the connection for about 5 secs then will connect again which is anoying.Any other sugestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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