pax Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Hi!If you're sitting on a reasonably good connection (20MBit down/1MBit up), are there stillreasons to limit the number of simultaneous torrents you download to the default(2 wasn't it?)... Is it a problem with DHT enabled if you're downloading a lot of simultaneous torrents?Can you run 5 simultaneous torrents, or will there be a lot of overhead making it inefficient?Do you need to increase global number of connections as well?Thanks in advance for any tips and info.Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Overloading your connections with peer connection per torrent (setting a too high figure), using too many upload slots, running too many torrents at once, all those might kill your connection.There's no best settings for all, you would just have to try and see what works, how many you can get running at once with reasonable speeds and no choking, etc. Id say start with 200 connections max, 50 connections per torrent, lets say 10 upload slots? Try running two or three torrents at once and see what you get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pax Posted December 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Overloading your connections with peer connection per torrent (setting a too high figure), using too many upload slots, running too many torrents at once, all those might kill your connection.There's no best settings for all, you would just have to try and see what works, how many you can get running at once with reasonable speeds and no choking, etc. Id say start with 200 connections max, 50 connections per torrent, lets say 10 upload slots? Try running two or three torrents at once and see what you get.Thanks for the tips...By the way.. does your download speed depend directly on your upload.. meaning, if you're uploading faster you will automatically be downloading faster (within bandwidth limits, of course). I cap the upload for gaming and other purposes, but when left alone, should you leave it with no upload cap?...Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Well, Usualy you CANT use the maximum throughput of your upload cause it'll kill the connection (no room for TCP protocol overhead to work in). Id say, use %80-90 when you're not using the connection at all (idle, not at the comp etC) and around %75 when you do (or less if you game while downloading etc.. your call). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 10, 2005 Report Share Posted December 10, 2005 Eh, no, I would say 75% upload cap at any time he's downloading, regardless of if he's using the connection. Raising it wouldn't be a good idea unless seeding.He can lower it for gaming, but that may lower his downstream. A better solution is to get cFosSpeed and use it in "ping mode" for online gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted December 10, 2005 Report Share Posted December 10, 2005 Yeah, Gaming and downloading isnt really good unless you have some sort of traffic shaping sorting the mess out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oRth Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Is there any point in traffic shaping if you're on a 100/100Mb line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 For symmetrical connections? Not really, no...Unless you actually manage to reach really close to the 100mbit, in which case it might help a little bit. But on a router, it'd probably CHOKE and kill your throughput, you'd need a much stronger hardware solution for 100mbit (or software) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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