lisawinstanley Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 because my isp has a cap on the # of connections made at one time(under 200) i have to set the max global connections to 180 and the max connected peers per torrent to a set amount depending on my # of downloads. my problem is doing this theres no way to determin the max connected peers as peers or seeds, its includes both and naturally the peers connect b4 the seeds which means i get little or no seeds connected b4 the peers which gives me extremely low speeds. i'm not sure if there is already a way around this i've been searching and cant find anything as of yet and if not i think it would be a good idea because more and more isp's are putting caps on # of connections allowed. i've tryed everything including the encryption and nothing helps but if i could allow my seeds to connect before the peers do and take up all the spots that would help a little and maybe you could add something like a minimum peer connection of 5 or something so ppl still seed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 "the peers connect before the seeds"utorrent is given a peerlist (list of IPs and ports to connect to) from the tracker.. and it starts connecting randomly to as many people u specified in the maximum connections per torrents..before it initiates a connection, there is no way for it to know if it's connecting to a peer or connecting to a seeder..in the end u turn out to have more peers connected, because the torrent u're downloading has less seeders than peers.. if u follow the logic, u'll see that u have a much more higher chance of connecting to seeders than peers..u cant help it.. 200 connections is not that bad.. my ISP used to limit my connections to 50 which was a hell.. i dont have a restriction now, and i dont see it exceed 100 even with 50 torrents seeding at the same time.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 Unfortunately, it's exactly as dAbReAkA says. Additionally, connecting to seeds doesn't guarantee you better speeds, and would probably leave you with even SLOWER speeds instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 You might even see a speed INCREASE by reducing global connections as low as 100 and leaving half-open connection max at 8.What's your upload slots set to and your other settings?If you're not uploading at least 1 KB/sec to a peer, they're unlikely to be uploading to you.And if you're not uploading at least 3 KB/sec to a peer, they're likely uploading faster to someone else.So it's a balance of getting a reasonable number of upload slots yet still keeping EACH upload slot's speed above 1 KB/sec and preferably above 3 KB/sec.Having the use extra upload slots if upload speed <90% helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisawinstanley Posted November 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 i have a 5mb connection, b4 the cap i was getting an average of about 400-600kB's and i would easily have over 100 seeds connected on one torrent. now i get 25-35kB's down and 0-5 seeds on average and 20-60 for up it varies a lot, with the same settings and torrents before and after the cap was activated. i tried every different kind of setting and changed the ul/dl speed and # of connections tons of times nothing helped so far. right now i have it set to 100 for max global connections like switeck suggested and i have 4 torrents going now so i set max connected per torrent to 25, no dl or ul limit set since setting a limit wasnt making a diff i just leave it open.i just switched my isp, new one will be activated dec 12th hopefully it will be better, they say they dont cap but thats what they all say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 Even though you allow 4 torrents and global connections are limited to 100, try raising connections per torrent to 30. The 4th torrent may be hard-up but at least the other 3 may go alittle faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisawinstanley Posted November 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 i've tried i went as far as 60 it still makes no difference if i set it to 30 then i'll get maybe 3 seeds and 27 peers i've tried a ton of different combinations but thanks for the help i'm just hopeing the new isp will be better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 u have made like a thousand connections before the cap probably.. according to the SLR (seeder-leecher ratio) u would've gotten 100 seeders and 900 leechers..limited number of connection = limited number of total peers = limited number of seeders..why dont u set the maximum number of connections to 190, and the maximum number of connection per torrent to 100 or something like it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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