igobyte Posted December 16, 2005 Report Posted December 16, 2005 Guys, I'm new to the scene so please take it easy on me. I've read some of the threads here, along with the FAQ, and have tinkered with the settings a bit, but my downloads are still very slow. Not only are the downloads slow but my page loads come to a screeching halt (well, they slow down to unbearable levels) when running utorrent. The moment I terminate the app, pages load normally again. So, I thought it could be the router (one of the problematic models, I've come to realize) and swapped it out, but that didn't help, so I connected the cable modem directly to my PC and ran a speed test at dslreports, which came out to 5424 kbps down, meaning approximately 680 KBps. However, I can't get even close to that with utorrent. I just downloaded the OpenOffice torrent and I was getting respectable speeds of 200+ KBps, but the rest of my downloads (currently running eight simultaneously) are getting only slightly upward of 100 KBps combined, which is a lot better than what I was getting earlier today (in the 50 - 70 KBps range, combined), but still vexing. So, the changes I'vemade to the setting so far definitely made a difference, but I don't know where to go from here. Could someone please give me a detailed rundown of what my settings should be to get maximum download speeds? And why do page loads slow down so much when I'm running utorrent? I'd really appreciate some insight... Thanks in advance.
Firon Posted December 16, 2005 Report Posted December 16, 2005 Did you cap your upload to 80% of your actual maximum?
igobyte Posted December 16, 2005 Author Report Posted December 16, 2005 Did you cap your upload to 80% of your actual maximum?I don't believe so. I'll look for that option now.
igobyte Posted December 16, 2005 Author Report Posted December 16, 2005 OK, how do I cap the upload to 80%?
Firon Posted December 16, 2005 Report Posted December 16, 2005 Do a speed test, and write down that number (in kB/s, as in kilobytes)Then, set 80% of the value (say you upload at 63 kB/s, you'd cap it to 50, rounding down to the nearest number) in Network Options"Global maximum upload rate"
igobyte Posted December 16, 2005 Author Report Posted December 16, 2005 n/m you said kilobytes, not kilobits... The small k throws me off in the options.
Firon Posted December 16, 2005 Report Posted December 16, 2005 No no, you need to get the value in kiloBYTES. 1 megaBIT is about 122 kilobytes/s, so you should try say.. a cap of 95 kB/s.
igobyte Posted December 16, 2005 Author Report Posted December 16, 2005 No no, you need to get the value in kiloBYTES. 1 megaBIT is about 122 kilobytes/s, so you should try say.. a cap of 95 kB/s.Yep, got it. I set it to 85 KBps. (I was getting 115 KBps up)What else should I do?
Firon Posted December 16, 2005 Report Posted December 16, 2005 Try raising your "Number of upload slots per torrent" to 6 in Torrent Options, and perhaps raise the number of connected peers per torrent to 75. That should give you good results.
igobyte Posted December 16, 2005 Author Report Posted December 16, 2005 Try raising your "Number of upload slots per torrent" to 6 in Torrent Options, and perhaps raise the number of connected peers per torrent to 75. That should give you good results. Raised the # of upload slots from 5 to 6 but # of connected peers was already set to 1000 as per someone else's advice (a thread on here)... Is that too high? Why does it matter?
Firon Posted December 17, 2005 Report Posted December 17, 2005 One THOUSAND? You should be using 75. Lots of connections creates TCP and BT overhead (which means that it eats extra download and especially upload bandwidth, thus giving you less bandwidth for actual uploading and downloading, slowing things down far more)
igobyte Posted December 17, 2005 Author Report Posted December 17, 2005 I'll try it. Can you tell me why web browsing suffers so much while I'm running the app?
Firon Posted December 17, 2005 Report Posted December 17, 2005 Because 1) you have a lot of connections using bandwidth (idle and not) and 2) you didn't have your upload capped, which chokes your connection (download requires upload to send acknowledgement packets and so on)With my settings, it shouldn't be AS slow, but some slowdown is unavoidable unless you use something like cFosSpeed to do traffic shaping and quality of service.By the way, what router do you have? if it's a D-link, you may have better performance if you turn OFF DHT. D-Link routers are notorious for having problems with UDP packets, which is what DHT uses.
igobyte Posted December 17, 2005 Author Report Posted December 17, 2005 Not using a router at this point, but Firebox SOHO 6 normally...
igobyte Posted December 17, 2005 Author Report Posted December 17, 2005 Oh, the DHT thing won't apply then.What's DHT about and does it apply if I am using a router?
Firon Posted December 17, 2005 Report Posted December 17, 2005 Turning off DHT is only beneficial with extremely slow connections (128k upload or less) and with very very crappy routers like D-Links and some modem/router combos like Surfboards.DHT is Distributed Hash Table. http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#What_is_DHT.3F
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