very very slow speed on broadband connection

[artoo]

Plase,

Could someone send me the settings for uTorrent 1.6 for a broadband connection. I've tried many settings and still get a consistent download speed of between 0.0kB/s and 1.5kB/s. I get spurts of 14kB/s for 1 or 2 seconds.

Thanks in advance.

Artoo

[Switeck]

We need a lot more information to know what to tell you to try.

What ISP do you have?

What is the offical rated linespeed down and up?

What do speed tests say?

What settings are you using as shown by Speed Guide (CTRL+G) in µTorrent?

What advanced settings have you changed?

[artoo]

the ISP is Cogeco Cable, and I'm not sure of the official rated linespeed. Is it normal to see the upoload rate significantly and constantly higher then the download rate?

[Switeck]

It is common if you don't know what you're doing and set your upload speed as high or higher than your line can really do.

[Chipppy]

Hey sorry for butting in...but i get same problem, heres my info

ISP is Optus Cable

9.9Mb/s (Down) : 256kb/s (Up)

Speed testing: 9Mb/s (down) : 242kb/s (up)

settings used in speed guide are connection type: 192

advanced settings changed:

net.max_halfopen: 40

peer.lazy_bitfield: true

peer.disconnect_inactive_interval: 600

and various other changes used from guide posted in these forums...

[Switeck]

Chipppy,

try Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and use the xx/256k setting.

Reduce half-open max in µTorrent back to 8.

You may have a massive download theoretical max, but on BitTorrent your upload is of great importance...and you don't have much of that! It costs download+upload bandwidth for each connection your computer attempts and just to retain existing ones.

[Chipppy]

ahh i c...hmm should have gotten the 1000k (up) ISP...

[Chipppy]

i average 60kB/s now...thanks for help...however OpenOffice only reaches a max dl rate of 500kB/s. shouldnt this be higher since i have an 9.9Mb/s connection and it is one of the well most seeded torrent??

[Switeck]

500 KB/sec is not bad, even if your connection in theory could/should go faster. Not many people have ISPs that throttle BT to just 500 KB/sec.

It may be because of the very limited upload bandwidth...if your end cannot respond quickly enough to ask "send more!", then the other end quits uploading as fast...thinking you're overloaded. This isn't as big a problem downloading from a website, since you're only downloading from probably 1 ip at a time. But having to reply "send more!" to 30+ ips at once is more difficult.

[Chipppy]

ahhh i understand now, so even though it is a well seeded torrent it really depends on my upload speed (how fast data is being uploaded for me to download)...thx...