masterdancer Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 I'm already screwed cuz i'm on dialup (31.2Kbps!!!) and this program doesn't appear to be user friendly for those of us who can't get Hi speed... will you help?1: even though i have uTorrent limited to uploads of 1KB, I only get download speeds of like .50Kbps to 2Kbs and I'm trying to download a 700MB Program. So I guess I'll be doing this download the rest of my life???? OMG this is so frustrating i can't stand it.2: WHAT ARE THE OPTIMUM SETTINGS FOR DIALUP? I see so many options in preferances with NO SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR DIALUP CONNECTIONS. I know the goal is to contribute by allowing utorrent to upload (seed or whatever is going on) but OMG am I expected to patiently wait WEEKS to do one large download? THIS IS SICKENING. BEFORE YOU JUDGE ME or If you don't understand my frustration then go get a dialup connection and download a 700MB torrent! Then read my post after 2 weeks has gone by and this ONE torrent is not finished!!!!!!!!!!!!! You'll have some compassion by then. I've been angry for years i can't get hi speed (NO, I can't afford Satellite and there are NO other options in my subdivision, except a verizon wireless Internet access card, but i can't afford that...$60 a month for 120Kbs, which is the highest speed they will guaranty cuz i'm on a fringe area) 3: Do I enable upnp Port mapping since I"m on dialup? I can't seem to figure out if I'm suppossed to setup ports that get randomly changed with my firewall. I know how to add a range of ports but should I? and i use Propel accelerator so do i have to run this through the proxy it uses (localhost: 8080) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 Start by running Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and choose the Dial-up (28.8k) setting as a starting point.Reduce the upload speed to only 1 KiloBYTE/sec.Reduce max connections and connections per torrent to only 5-10.(Your choice here...lower = less wasted, but less chance to find someone who WILL upload to you.)Turn off DHT (both kinds).Disable Resolve IPs under the Peers Window. (That's expensive window-dressing considering it doesn't help download+upload speeds any.)Reduce half open connection max to maybe 1-4. (You're not firewalled in µTorrent, right? ...so it shouldn't hurt as much as you might think!)Disable resolve country flags in advanced.Disable "Enable Local Peer Discovery".You could also try TCP view (3rd party program) to break connections to "bad" peers/seeds. If you're only going to connect to 5-10 peers or seeds, then it might as well be good ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterdancer Posted October 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 I tried the settings...it seemed to do ok for a day or 2, can't remember this frikkin thing has been going on for so long...but for a week or so of trying I nowget NO DOWLOADING at all now, only uploading!!!!pics of my Settings are here: http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9199/utorrentpreferancesig7.gifHere is a pic of the download screen from a few days ago...SHOWING NO DOWNLOADING only uploading:http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8884/utoroffice2007stddownloss5.gifbasically all i've noticed differrent since this pic is it starts uploading when i start the program...no dlownloading and look how much of this is done...its taken weeks to get this far...am i to throw all that away? and start over? why would I do the same non productive process all over again? Also, : in your reply, what does this mean? "Reduce max connections...lower = less wasted, but less chance to find someone who WILL upload to you.)Less wasted what? Is this indicating i could be wasting time doing these horrendous downloads over snails pace dialup only to find their no good or "wasted"? RE: "find someone who WILL upload to you" I thought the software would find sources to download from????HELP!-------------Start by running Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and choose the Dial-up (28.8k) setting as a starting point.Reduce the upload speed to only 1 KiloBYTE/sec.Reduce max connections and connections per torrent to only 5-10.(Your choice here...lower = less wasted, but less chance to find someone who WILL upload to you.)Turn off DHT (both kinds).Disable Resolve IPs under the Peers Window. (That's expensive window-dressing considering it doesn't help download+upload speeds any.)Reduce half open connection max to maybe 1-4. (You're not firewalled in µTorrent, right? ...so it shouldn't hurt as much as you might think!)Disable resolve country flags in advanced.Disable "Enable Local Peer Discovery".You could also try TCP view (3rd party program) to break connections to "bad" peers/seeds. If you're only going to connect to 5-10 peers or seeds, then it might as well be good ones. smile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Each connection, each peer/seed you connect to takes bandwidth EVEN JUST SITTING IDLE!With dial-up, you can't afford to have 20+ connections at once....So just pick-and-choose using something like TCP view."I thought the software would find sources to download from?"When you're only uploading at 1 KiloBYTE/sec, finding can take a long time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterdancer Posted October 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 RE: "..So just pick-and-choose using something like TCP view.". ok i installed TCPView, so now what ? pick what? based on what? which is best to pick. What am I looking for? so how many (of whatever I'm suppossed to pick) do I pick?thanks for your time and effort...it's much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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