Gypsy Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Hi all, first post!Right, so I am having some trouble with utorrent obviously. No matter what torrent I try, the download speeds are about 30kbps - 60kbps, with bursts of up to 150kbps. Its very erratic, the speeds bounce back and forth from say 150kbps to 30kbps and then to 60kbps within a minute. My upload speed usually maxes out to whatever I set the bandwidth cap to. I've tried all the generic solutions; scanning my comp for spyware, defraging my hard disk, etc...Also windows firewall and my router are allowing traffic through the utorrent port. The connection indicator thing in utorrent is always green. Need some help as to how to get faster, more stable speeds. My setup is as follows:Internet Connection--------------------ISP: MNSiRATED DOWN SPEED: 3.0mbps (Thats rated, I actually get like 4 mbps... gotta love localized ISP's)RATED UP SPEED: not sure... but I get around 600 kilobits per secondRouter / Firewall---------------Router: Microsoft MN 500, allowing utorrent trafficFirewall: Windows XP SP2 Firewall, alowwing utorrent trafficUtorrent Settings-----------------Download Cap: NoneUpload Cap: 50KBpsEncryption: EnabledGloabl Max # of connections: 400Max # of peers per torrent: 100Upload Slots: 8Computer---------CPU: Athlon 64 3000+RAM: 1 GBHard Disks: 2 X WD SATAII 160GB in RAID 0 Array... Its dam fast!Network Card: Intergrated 100/10mbpsOS: Windows XP Home SP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 How many torrents are you trying at once and are they well-seeded and with sufficient peers to keep your upload busy too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 I ran 1 torrent at a time, and they were well seeded (like open office) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Open Office and many torrents on private trackers are TOO well seeded. Your upload speed isn't needed to the point that you're "fighting" with possibly 4-10 other seeds to upload to 1 peer.Also, if the other end has their upload speed set to "unlimited", they may be experiencing overloads which means they go fast briefly and then slow way down...then burst to higher speeds again, only to slow again. You cannot configure what other people do...basically only your upload speed do you really have much control over.On decent torrents, you shouldn't need more than 30 connections (PER torrent) to reach 100+ KB/sec download speeds and sustain them. Also, you need to be uploading at a reasonable rate (and have some upload bandwidth left over to maintain download speeds) to encourage other peers to upload back to you.It really sucks to be downloading at <0.5 KB/sec from someone...the bandwidth overheads at such low speeds actually end up taking more bandwidth than the amount of data transfered! This means having lots of upload slots is bad. Anything more than 1 upload slot per 3 KB/sec of upload speed is slow. More than 1 upload slot per KB/sec of upload speed is simply excessive and wasteful...though your settings don't have that as a problem so long as you're not running more than 3 torrents at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Understood, but it happens to any torrent I try. Can't be a fluke, can It? I've also tried fiddling with my utorrent setings... in speed guide I changed connection type from auto - detect to xx/512kb, it helped my speeds a bit, but not much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Check to see if maybe it's certain BitTorrent clients on a torrent that are bursty or just plain poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Iv'e tried Azureus, it has much better speed on good torrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 When you run Azureus, are you using Stuffer by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted January 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Stuffer? If thats a plugin? I can't find it. Don't think I am using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Stuffer is a plugin.Beyond some crazy spyware, antivirus, or software firewall acting as a bottleneck...I don't know what's causing your problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greaser911 Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Hi Gypsy I have the same problem. I have tied many thing and I'm close to giving up on utorrent.One thing I noticed is that we both use the same router, could that be the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 You'll just have to post a process explorer list if you want to eliminate likely program interferance with µTorrent.That seems the most likely problem cause here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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