phenom Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 i'm getting very slow download speeds from utorrent: avg 10-15 kb/s down, 20-30 kb/s up (max 55kb/s down, 40 kb/s up).here's a checklist of what i've tried so far:- checked dl/ul speeds with www.dslreports.com: 3104 kb/s down, 235 kb/s up- set max downloads at 3000 kb/s, max uploads at 220 kb/s- checked that port is forwarded: ok- got 'network ok' icon on status bar (green)- disabled DHT and UPnP- turned off "resolve IPs" in 'Peers' tab- set net.max_halfopen to 4 (from 8)- patched tcpip.sys to 100 and restarted pc- enabled protocol encryption- checked that peer.lazy_bitfield is enabled: ok- checked my ISP wasn't on evil felching ISP list: it wasn'tso, to recap: i've done just about EVERYTHING on the speed checklist, but my downloads are still taking ages and ages. my ISP is ukonline, my modem/router is an ADDON ARM8100 ADSL. my dl and ul speeds from www.dslreports.com were 3104 kb/s and 235 kb/s respectively, port checker says "OK! Port XXXXX is open and accepting connections," i'm running XP MCE w/ SP2 (tcpip.sys patched), using windows firewall (with utorrent port and program both set as exceptions).my system is a newly-built (mere days-old) PC, with an AMD athlon 64 3800 (AM2), 2GB DDR2 RAM (667mhz), 250GB IDE hard drive, and an ATI radeon x1950 pro.NOTE: when i downloaded the openoffice torrent, my download speeds were great (max ~600 kb/s, avg 350 kb/s), but my upload speeds for the same torrent are <0.5 kb/s.if anybody has any tips or ideas, i'd gratefully welcome them - i'm open to all suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 You didn't read the Speed Guide carefully enough if you set your upload rate limit to 220KiB/s... Go back to the Speed Guide and select xx/256k. And don't bother limiting the download rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phenom Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Ah, true. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Do remember to get back to us about whether it helped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phenom Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 It has: Download speed's now fluctuating between 40 - 80 kB/s - up to four times the original speed - much kudos and thanks to you, Ultima, for pointing out that embarrassingly simple solution (hangs head in shame). But now I have another question: Why is my maximum download speed so high (>600 kB/s), relative to my maximum upload speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Because ISPs generally just don't give fast upload rates, and I'm not really sure why -- price maybe? No clue :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurahashi Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 Mainly because of two reasons.First, historical, is because of assumption that normal user doesn't need (and is not interested) in high upload rate, only download. Well, this was basically true - but not today, that is: not in era of p2p and video conferences.But the second reason is even more important: because when you are buying your connection you pay for your upload in fact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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