Bandwidth Throttle?

[JethroUK]

I want to limit utorrent use of my bandwidth so i can surf, collect emails, etc - at the moment i have to close utorrent down when i want to use the web ( i had to shut it down to post this message)

I have 2 megabit connection and i only want uTorrent to use 50%-60% of that

Any ideas?

[DreadWingKnight]

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992#p258231

[Invy]

Are you kidding? There's always been a bandwidth limiter

The option is in Options > Preferences > Connection.

It can also be accessed by right-clicking the utorrent tray icon, or the status bar at the bottom of utorrent.

[JethroUK]

Would that convert to like 2 megabits / 2 = 1000kbits = 500 up + 500 down - does that sound about right?

[DreadWingKnight]

Doubtful.

Most residential connections only advertise their download speed.

Follow the guide I linked.

[JethroUK]

Been twiddling around and for the benefit of anyone with similar problem i made some discoveries - namely

Band width throttle is not intuative and is proportional to bandwidth available and not bandwidth in use (it doesn't behave like 'a cap' as it implies) - e.g. if i am downloading a file @ 7 kB/s on a 200 kB connection you would assume setting a 'cap' @ 100 kb/s down would make no difference at all

In fact it does - whilst it doesn't affect the download, it greatly affects remaining band width for surfing, etc

I run a speedtest which regularly checks my 2 megabit connection out at 1970 - 2000 kbits/sec which is always there or there abouts - decided to run same check whilst still running uTorrent (to see how much juice was left) and it checked me out at average 190 (10%) after several tests including one at 21 kbits (1%) - i bet you've never seen the google page without the google logo (took some 10 seconds to d/load)

I don't know what uTorrent was doing with the 'whole' of my bandwidth whilst downloading a lousy 7kB/s but it was consuming it 'all'

Applied the throttle (which shouldn't make any difference) and the test speed started to rise

Although it's not exactly proportional I eventually settled at throttle 50 down and 15 up which left me a very acceptable 1100 - 1500 surf speed

The exact proportions are not perfect but

[nos_slived]

What were you uploading at before setting the cap?

[JethroUK]

i didn't notice the upload speed - i only really noticed that applying the throttle left me with bandwidth for surfing irrespective of how much/little was being used for transferring - speed test i always used very accurately:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/speedtest.html

[nos_slived]

If the upload was high, you were overloading the connection. Download had nothing to do with it.

[JethroUK]

upload wasn't high - this isn't a one off test/fluke - it was a series of tests - you can easy confirm it - start a single torrent & test your remaining bandwidth with/without throttle