zeroburn Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 I wonder if anyone has more input on this? I searched the forums and all the posts about connecting to only 1 or a handful of seeds but a ton of peers claimed it was a fake torrent problem. Well after trying out another bittorrent client(bittornado using the same ports) I think the problem is with utorrent.uTorrent, on pretty much any torrent I choose connects only to 1-3 seeds. BitTornado on the same torrent will happily connect to me to many more seeds than peers (3x-4x more seeds than peers is not uncommon). The result is of course BitTornado finishing a torrent download much faster than uTorrent.I originally switched to uTorrent expecting to get better performance, and while it is not the memory hog other clients are, I'm starting to wonder what the heck is going on with seeds/peers connected problem. It's certainly not a "fake" torrent problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Connecting to few seeds is not the same as connecting to no seeds.Connecting to more seeds than you are already won't help your performance as much as you'd think.Follow the connection setup guide from the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroburn Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Thanks for the reply, but I had already followed the setup guide long ago when I first switched to uTorrent. It works and even downloads quickly just fine on some torrents.I'll just switch to bittornado for the torrents going slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Question: What client(s) is/are the seeds generally using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroburn Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 From most likely to least likely:azureus 24xx or 25xx, utorrent 1600, mainline 4.x.x, others (bittornado, bitcomet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Are the Azureus seeds vastly outnumbering the other clients? I'm wondering if they're using Stuffer to block µTorrent ;\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroburn Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 It certainly seemed to be the most popular client overall. Why would they want to block uTorrent users though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Because some of them are overly-paranoid about the BitTorrent + µTorrent acquisition, and/or (maybe) found the acquisition to be a (cheap/stupid) "reason" to kick µTorrent down a notch -- make it not connectable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroburn Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Wow. Well that might explain why this seems to be a recent problem. I guess it's better than no explanation at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Indeed, it's something I'd been hypothesizing (not necessarily a fact, keep in mind), as it seems too coincidental that there's been a massive "uprising" of "fake" torrents in the recent weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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