fruitloops101 Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I reduced my maxumum number of connected peers per torrent to 20, and my DL speed rocketed from 30kB/s to over 100kB/s (ADSL 2mb DL, 256UL) (ver. 1.3) Less is more, people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miffo Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 and with even lower you might hit 200.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cTn Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 20 per torrent? this cant be real ... i try ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 Yes, lower = better, especially when your network connection is not fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 Your mileage may vary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Levac Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 What he said, your mileage may vary.It depends on the torrent, it depends on your upload capacity, it depends on utorrent settings, it depends on other peers' settings and upload speed, it depends on the number of seeds/peers in the swarm, it depends on latency between peers, etc.I have 6.5mbDOWN/900kbUP, I set upload slots 10-16, max peers 250-500, upload speed 70kB/s. I get a consistent minimum 70kB/s down because of tit-for-tat from the upload slots. I get more than 70kB/s from all the other seeds/peers. When I'm connected to 100 of each, I get anywhere between 70kB/s and 350kB/s, depending on all the other variables.When you set 20 connections, you got more download speed for your connection because it cannot support many connections AND upload data simultaneously. Also because at least one peer you were connected to had a high upload limit. Let me explain.Upload bandwidth is required to download data. Every time you request for more data, you send a request through your upload connection, you use upload bandwidth that you cannot use for data. Every time you send ACKs (acknowledge that you got the data), you use upload bandwidth that you cannot use for data. Upload bandwidth is also required to request for more connections. Every time you send requests for more connections you use upload bandwidth that you cannot use for data.There must be enough upload bandwidth left to send TCP traffic, otherwise you can't upload data and can't download data either. Not as fast anyway.In the case of a slower connection like yours, less is more. In the case of a fast connection like mine, more is more. But, it's all relative to all the other variables.ML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 i use the settings from here:http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Good_settingsthey work great for me ( i have 384kB upstream -- and the settings recommend 115 peers per torrent, 384 global)but i'll try doing something like 30 peers per torrent, 100 total and see how it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 Boy, I have 512 upload and I use 75/torrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 i have mine set at 9999 a torrent, 99999 global. lmao. but i dont notice any slowdowns?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cTn Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 i set max connections per torrent to 20 and i downloading full speed lol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayers Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 All these examples just goes to show that number of connections has little to do with speed. It has more to do with the stability of the OS/router/modem than anything else.Of course if you seriously screw them up you can ultimately affect your speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 i have mine set at 9999 a torrent, 99999 global. lmao. but i dont notice any slowdowns??You should have your spleen ripped from your body while you're still awake.http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecificationImplementer's Note: Even 30 peers is plenty, the official client in fact only actively forms new connections if it has less than 30 peers and will refuse connections if it has 55. This value is crucial to performance. When a new piece has completed download, HAVE messages (see below) will need to be sent to most active peers. As a result the cost of broadcast traffic grows in direct proportion to the number of peers. Above 25, new peers are highly unlikely to increase download speed. UI designers are strongly advised to make this obscure and hard to change as it is very rare to be useful to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 Azureus recommends something much higher than 30 or 55 even.... but I think 55 is probably a nice number. Using anything over 150 peers per torrent is just counterproductive.I've been swapping my settings a lot to see how they work but I seem to get equal performance:30 peers / 150 global115 peers / 384 global55 peers / 225 globalI don't see much difference. I always use 4 upload slots, my upstream stays at 38kBps, and I'm on a 384kbit upstream connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeboyz Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 Why not just stick with the standard defaults that come with Utorrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 because i'm tweakaholic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeboyz Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 because i'm tweakaholic.Fair enough. I just want stuff to work, and the default does great for me so I don't want to mess with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfire Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Hi,I am all new to this. I notice that uploads are going 10 times faster than download and I checked my settings and global maximum upload and dowload rates both are set to 0. I saw the dowload speed fluctuate between between 1.15kB/s to 10.00kB/s while upload speed ranged from 6.0 kB/s to 76 kB/s. What is going on?? How can I get my download faster?? and what is being uploaded on the same torrent that is 206MB but downloaded is only 76MB?? I am confused! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 You have to cap your upload to 80% of your actual maximum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeboyz Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 I can do 384k up on my ADSL, so I have it set to 30kB in Utorrent.I have my download set to 0, for max, which should be around 1.5m (196kB max)I leave all the other settings in Utorrent to default, like:NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS--------------------------------Global Maximum Number of Connections = 200Maximum Number of Connected Peers Per Torrent = 50Number of Upload Slots Per Torrent = 4Use Additional Upload SLots If Upload Speed < 90% = CHECKEDQUEUE SETTINGS---------------------Maximum Number of Active Torrents (upload or download) = 8Maximum Number of Active Downloads = 5OTHER SETTINGS---------------------Enable Scraping = CHECKEDPre-allocate Disk Space = UNCHECKEDEnable DHT = CHECKEDEnable DHT For New Torrents = CHECKED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolbysnoopy Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 I tried but it speeds up a while and then fall back to slow speed. I think I can just pray before the torrents becomes dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 I have my download set to 0, for max, which should be around 1.5m (196kB max)You might get better results if you set download max to 180-190 KB/sec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeboyz Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 I have my download set to 0' date=' for max, which should be around 1.5m (196kB max)[/quote']You might get better results if you set download max to 180-190 KB/sec.Seems to be working great when set to ZERO (0) but I will try just for kicks. I can always set it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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