average download speed for 390kbps/110Kbps (DSL)

[orionzpear]

Hello! This is my first post.

Before I start complaining about my slow speed. I like to know first the average utorrent down/upload speeds for my above connection? As it is i only have an average of 30Kbps -down /5Kbps - up...is this ok?

and what will affect my speed? Is it the number of peers? The more seeds the better? the bandwidth? server latency? If i have a good upload will also increase my download speed?

why would it be better to cap the upload speed rather than make it unlimited..

and like the post below (which was not really answered), I am connected to a lot of peers but have downloaded only from about half of them.. Is this ok?

Thanks for the help

[Switeck]

Upload needs to be capped because it's what your computer does. It uploads to others. If you tell it to go too fast, it overloads the line...and that can even get bad enough to crash marginal networking hardware and software alike.

Download is what others do TO you. You have less control over, almost no control. So if you put a download cap on, it is only very weakly followed and if you're actually receiving downloads faster than that...your upload speed can suffer even when you have sufficient download and upload bandwidth for the task.

Speed Guide (CTRL+G) in µTorrent can set multiple settings based on the UPLOAD bandwidth/speed of your connection. The closest match for your connection is xx/96k.

With only 390 kilobits/sec download bandwidth, you really cannot expect to exceed about 40 KiloBYTES/sec download speeds even under ideal conditions. (That is, from a great website using 1 ip-to-ip connection.)

[orionzpear]

Thanks. It helped a lot. Now, i dont have whine and do all the tweakings coz now i know my speed is just about normal for my dsl.

[benbw]

thanks helped me too

my average dl speed is 390 Kb/s

ul speed is 120 Kb/s

done on a speed test

now I know that my download rate of about 40-50kB/s is normal

[kiat]

how to you do that average dl speed is 390 Kb/s, my only 13Kb/s

[Switeck]

kiat, you're probably confusing bandwidth in kilobits/sec

...with file upload/download speeds which are in KiloBYTES/sec.

Your "13Kb/s" is probably 13 KiloBYTES/sec speeds seen in µTorrent or a web browser.

Your bandwidth is probably 128 kilobits/sec.

[pacatovl]

I'm having the same problem too, my connection is a DSL 1024/320, i got a green stats (my ports are forwarded), i'm using encryption, my downloads get very close to 100kB on emule, but when i try utorrent, both download and upload don't seem to go beyond 20kB/s. what can be happening?

[xena400]

My problem is sort of a bizarre one.

Starting this past week, my bandwidth has been acting rather bizarre lately. If I download something that's about 500mb or more, the bandwidth speed goes up to ranging from 90kb/s-130kb/s up to ranging from 160kb/s-384kb/s. My connection speed is a 3mb connection speed. What I've noticed is that if I restart my computer (On account of my wireless signal going dead or my wireless connection jamming up and not being able to repair it) and then restart utorrent, the bandwidth goes up to about (Ranging from) 180-386kb/s for about five to ten minutes and then drops down to 30kb/s-50kb/s. Sometimes it goes as low as 1kb/s-3kb/s and stays like that. Sometimes it even goes as low as 0.1kb/s and stays there until I do what I listed at the beginning of this paragraph.

My question is, why is my bandwidth speed acting like this when I'm downloading large files? Right now one of the "Peers" numbers is "28 (94)." I reset the peer number. It chops the 94 down to about 38 and then I update it. It goes back up to 94 and the bandwidth doesn't change.

How can I cure my bandwidth speed problem? I've been downloading the same large file for the past four days and would like to finish it (Laughing.)

Russell

[Switeck]

Have you tried all this:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992

[xena400]

I didn't reply to this right away because I thought I would give the suggestion the benefit of a doubt and some time.

I decided to try the suggestion last week and set the settings the way the page suggested.

Fortunately, the suggestion only got me about twenty megabytes downloaded from the 550mb file, but unfortunately the suggestion only lasted for two separate nights.

Right now there's only 537mb downloaded so far and it has stayed like that since two days after my previous post here. The bandwidth has not gone over 0.1kb/s or 0.2kb/s. I also have an 8.11gb file that I've also been trying to download and it has stayed at 7.76gb since then too.

The problem is when the file downloads from the start to where it is now, the bandwidth slows down totally and doesn't go anywhere. Last Tuesday the bandwidth fluctuated from 0.1kb/s to 3kb/s. The most it has gone up is about 50kb/s but is very rare (Two out of fifteen nights for example.) When this happened I was very excited that it went over 0.1kb/s and only had ten minutes worth of downloading time left because I thought I didn't have to wait a year and a day for it to finish. After that it has stayed at 0.1kb/s with a time span to finish of about four to six weeks until it finishes.

The "Peers" section has stayed at "29 (61) to about (83)." The "Seeds" section used to be at 2 (4), but today it has stayed at 0 (0).

In the "Peers" section of the transfer section under the space where it has the downloads says "27 of 53 connected (That fluctuates,) 22 in swarm wasted." Do I have something configured wrong in utorrent or does my router (Wireless Linksys 802.11g) have something to do with it. I have the DMZ of the "Applications and Gaming section" of my router disabled. I also disable the DHT option on utorrent every so often to see if that fixes the problem.

As far as the download limit and upload limit after the suggestion, I have utorrent set up for "Unlimited" for download, and 10kb/s for uploads.

How do I fix this problem? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Russell

[Switeck]

Wireless routers cannot handle nearly as many connections via wireless as through direct wired connections. Even 60 can be way too much. The router will slow down, drop connections, and just lock up without warning. High half open connection rate typically makes that happen quicker. (Even 8 may be too much!)

Both DHT and Resolve IPs in Peers window are hard-hitter for wireless routers. They both heavily use UDP packets.

[xena400]

What do you suggest I do to cure this problem? Do you suggest I go straight from the modem to the computer instead of going through the router?

What is UDP?

Russell

[Switeck]

TCP/IP packets are 'standard' internet communications between http websites to you.

UDP packets are so-called 'connectionless' packets that are sent with no direct means of telling if the other end received them...or is even there!

What you need to try:

Disable DHT in settings and disable Resolve IPs in Peers window.

Reduce global and per-torrent max connections to 30.

Reduce net.max_halfopen in advanced settings to only 1-4. (try 4 first, then reduce it down to 1 as needed.)

[xena400]

I thought I would reply to this after a few days. Thank you for having patience with me on this problem I'm having.

So far, since the last time I've posted here I was only able to download about five megabytes worth of the 540mb file I was downloading before.

So far it hasn't done anything since then. It is still at 97.6% and hasn't finished. I changed the global open part of the torrent section from 3 to 4 every so often and put the torrent connections to 30 but with no luck it still doesn't download much. The most it has gone up is to about 0.0kb/s to 0.1kb/s.

Any suggestions?

Russell

[Switeck]

What is the availability of that torrent?

Has there been any hash fails on that torrent?

Any poisoners on that torrent?

Have you tried the Open Office test torrent to see if you get ok speeds on it?

[xena400]

So far this is what I have:

I have a screen shot of the section that way I don't have to write it all out from my own confusion.

This image can be found at http://xenastreetfighterthenextgeneration.com/untitled.JPG if it doesn't come up clearly here.

The download options are set to unlimited and the upload options is set to 10kb/s

Russell

[Switeck]

Your connection speed doesn't matter in this case...

See the availability bar?

You *CAN'T* complete that torrent despite being connected to 20 peers.

The torrent tracker reports no seeds to connect to, nor are you connecting to any the tracker doesn't know about.

That torrent's DEAD unless you find someone with a complete copy via DHT...and since DHT is already running, it looks like that failed too!

There's just nobody out there with a complete file.

[xena400]

That makes sense. Thank you for your advice and suggestions until I write in again.

Russell