some questions

[globetrotters1]

We are new to uTorrent and the whole bittorrent community. We read all the FAQs and the hints how to install it and we think we got it more or less installed correctly. We use it now since some time and we can't understand certain behaviour. This is the reason why we post them here:

1. We are using a satellite internet connection which has a certain (and low) download quantity threshold - 350 MB per day - the speed would be ok (1 Mb/s). Upload is unlimited, but limited only to the upload speed (200kb/s). So we use the scheduler feature to not get 'punished' by the ISP. Until now we stopped the running torrents daily after our download period. Which we think might be wrong. We read somewhere in this forum that the actual status of a torrent gets reported to the tracker when stopped. This may influence our ratio ratings and so on. Is that true? And if yes, why should that influence our ratio ratings if the torrent has not been finished yet...???

2. We seed throughout the day at a reduced speed. Normally to ratio 1.1, some rarer torrents up to 3. Some stay for 4 weeks below 1, then we skip them out of the system. We think this is fair. We keep an upload speed of 15KB/s open. What we found out is that on some days it seeds a lot, on some days there are leechers around but it won't seed anything, or let's say practically nothing. Why? It says 'connection closed by peer' or 'tracker connection timed-out' and so on and all of the signs are red upload flashes. We like to get a grip on all of this. And we like the idea of giving back to the community what we've gotten.

3. We use PeerGuardian to block certain IPs from connecting to us. We see in the PG window how many times certain companies are trying to get data. Is it possible that those companies plant something like a 'brake' in our computer to make it slower and slower?

4. It's very strange, a friend of ours uses uTorrent since a long time and has no speed problems although he never cares for seeding a lot. We seed a lot and ours gets slower and slower. Shouldn't that be the other way around?

5. Another strange behaviour: if it runs awfully slow and we stop uTorrent, unplug the satellite modem, wait for a minute or so and restart everything, then it often goes back to the normal speeds. We guess that this happens because we get a new dynamic IP with power-cycling the modem. Has anyone here an idea why that happens?

Thanks for any comments

globetrotters1

[DreadWingKnight]

Most of your questions (1,2,4) are covered in the guides and FAQ sections of the site.

For #3, the companies can't plant anything, and running peerguardian really only gives minimal protection at best.

http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com/2006/05/blocklist-balderdash.html

#5 can have some odd causes, depending on the configuration.

[globetrotters1]

DreadWingKnight,

thanks for your response.

1,2,4 Pointing us to the FAQ and forum section is a cool idea, but that doesn't answer our questions, because we couldn't find the answer on these specific questions. We've read FAQ and searched in the forums to no avail. But ok, we'll better leave it. We thought that seeding is wanted by the community, not just leechers who run off. But if we can't get the data out to other people, we can do it like our friend. So what.

3 Thanks for the link, was at least interesting to read.

5 Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately we can't do anything with it. Do you recommend to re-install the whole O/S and all programs?

Thanks,

globetrotters1