Pido Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 So I have begun work downloading a certain torrent and out of the available 750 seeders it is only accepting 7 of them.now I'm wondering is this a problem with my client's configuration or the other users chose to not upload?Like wise on my other torrent download I'm getting 19 out of 500.I know for other files uTorrent has always tried to get close to maximum amount of seeders connected. Like, I have seen 67(69) seeders etc. etc.Thank you for any and all help Edit: uTorrent 1.7.5, Windows XP and Comcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Ah...ComCast!I'm hearing that word a lot with problems reported here lately.However, it's not uncommon on very active and old torrents for the tracker to have "seen" a LOT of seeds that are no longer connected to the torrent...or are firewalled...or are not accepting any more connections (after all, they probably have max if there's 100+ peers out there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roseypeach Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 I have Comcast as well but I haven't had any real problems with them rejecting seeders. For example, just last night I had a dl with over 3000 seeders and my speed reached a whopping 600.0 kB+ and I'm wireless!Most likely some of the reported seeders probably had their ul's ratio cut back.Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 It's more likely to be ComCast's Sandvine at work, killing "foreign" ip connections off. They do that as well as trying to disrupt seeding...in fact, they do it MORE than disrupting seeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pido Posted November 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Yep my friend was telling me about them "killing" connections. Any way I can limit them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Yeah, change ISPs...and/or use forced encryption.Being that everything you do goes through the Sandvine boxes ComCast uses, you're pretty much at their mercy...or lack thereof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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