griffen Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Any advice for this seeding problem...Been using utorrent since v1.2 so pretty well versed. I get respectable dl speeds on a 7.6Mbps/800kbps connection of around 750kB on a good torrent from a private tracker and anywhere from 450kB to 600kB from a public tracker... no complaints there... However where I'm really struggling is seeding - especially to private trackers eg: even the most popular torrent will be lucky if it's reseeded 5 - 10% of it's total... even after days.To sign off what I think is the obvious:Test Torrent Open Office Org - Yes hits a peak of 800kB on a good day, worst yet 720kB Port open - Yes passes port checkOS Firewall - Yes same prob when on XP as on Vista nowTCP/IP Patched - Yes to no more than 50NIC Optimised - Yes with speedguide.net optimiserISP - No shaping or banning from ISP I'm aware of and have askedTorrent Volume - No change with no torrent downloading or 1 - 2 downloadingAdvanced Options - Default settings apart from net.max_halfopen *40Router - Have tried a DLink 504T, G604T, Speedtouch 545, Netgear WGT634U, and 2 Linksys WAG54G V3 [worst router on the planet]Am very close to the ratio kiss of death with fav private tracker so really want to resolve... thanks in advance for any advice and yes I've read thru forum but do not want to make any changes that would kill my dl speed at this point!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 You ran Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and set it to xx/768k right?Have you tried using Scheduler's SEED ONLY mode to increase your ratio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffen Posted August 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2007 yes and yes.... no change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 21, 2007 Report Share Posted August 21, 2007 Although your connection passes port check, does µTorrent always have the GREEN light at bottom or does it regularly turn Yellow or even Red? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffen Posted August 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2007 Yes always showing green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 27, 2007 Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 What encryption settings are you using?Have you done any/many internet searches (using various search engines) for ANY information concerning your ISP possibly blocking/throttling BitTorrent? (Don't trust the official sources!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffen Posted August 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Enabled or Forced - has no effect..... No, ISP does not block or shape P2P traffic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 So you can seed ok at OTHER places, just not these certain private trackers?Because my guess is there's so few peers that you just can't get very many bits sent to them before they complete those torrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 (Gotta ask....)Are you a Comcast subscriber? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 Most people can't seed on private sites because there's no leechers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffen Posted September 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 OTHER places - mixed results but predominantly below avg speed on all - vary rare to get a good seed and can remember very few times that I've achieved 100% seed"Comcast subscriber" - No never heard of itFiron - "Most people can't seed on private sites because there's no leechers" - excuse the stupid question but.... how the hell are you supposed to maintain a ratio with these trackers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 lol that's exactly the problem with overseeding Probably the only definite way to increase your ratio on those kinds of trackers would be to upload lots of new/original content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffen Posted September 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 hmmmm well bugger then... just a long shot but would the fact that I have a home network of 4 sometimes 5 PCs be any issue with seeding? don't run dhcp and all pcs are static ips with 'enable netbios over tcp/ip' in the nic properties of all.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 There may be a computer on the network putting more of a load on your upload side than you realize? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffen Posted September 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Any way to drill down on which PC.... only know of Netlimiter and have never really got into it's settings or have it installed at present... any other decent tools to help out there? Thanks again in advance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 I use my router to monitor which computer/s are accessing the internet...it has in/out logs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffen Posted September 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 Thanks for the advice, I've switched back to a Thompson Speedtouch 545 router for now, no improvement... In regards to the logs mentioned by Switeck, I'm sure router generates them but what should I be looking for to analyse problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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