Slow seeding (anti-leech feature?)

[NeoVanGoth]

Hi,

I have a very strange behaviour with µTorrent (current Version 1.7.5):

I'm on a quite fast line with 50MBit down and 10MBit up, but seeding is very slow most of the time, but not always!

In detail: I'm able to seed about 1000kb/s, wich is the upload limit in µTorrent too, but most of the time (when I'm only seeding) the upload is only about 200kb/s. If I start a new download, the upload for other torrents speeds up instantly. Sometimes if there is a very fast peer for one of my seeding-only torrents, speed goes up for only this peer.

Is there maybe some kind of anti-leeching feature in µTorrent? Global upload goes very seldom faster than global download, even if there are many leechers.

[Firon]

Lack of demand, poor routing on your ISP, etc.

What are your upload slots set to?

[oldsandy]

I see peers seeding to me at 500kbs and more. How do they do it ? I have a 10MB broardband connection but NEVER have I been able to Seed to the system any-more then 85kbs. Is there a gap in my education on this matter. Would appreciate any advise.

[Switeck]

Simple.

Your "10MB broardband connection" is nothing of the sort.

It's actually a 10 megabits/sec max DOWNLOAD speed broadband connection...with probably 1 megabit/sec OR LESS max upload speed. 85 KiloBYTES/sec takes about 700-900 kilobits/sec (~0.7-0.9 megabits/sec) bandwidth.

NeoVanGoth,

Your upload is probably so fast that it's completing alot of torrents for people very quickly...so only the slow downloaders remain. Unless you're on torrents that are rather large and super-popular, it's not uncommon for seeds to start outnumbering peers...and before long there's nobody to upload to.

Check out how many upload slots are actually being used by µTorrent per torrent as well as µTorrent logs...there may be a problem with the connection being broken to the other end/s alot.

My advice: Run more torrents.