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speed problem. Need to understand more about seeders / Peers


woodyuk

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Hi

I have a 8mb UK connection. Can get about 6mb downloads from Microsoft FTP servers etc. However on utorrent I get a max of around 4-5mb and thats seems to be only from a few rare torrents

However the main problem I am getting is that I have very good upload speds. 60k and bad download 10k!. This is a torrent with 458 seeds and 7000 peers!. I have put in the tcp/ip hack to increase my TCP/IP limit (100 connections).

When a torrent starts how does it pick which seeds or peers to connect to? Why not go to all seeds before peers if there are lots of seeds ? I have already upload 2x the total of this download! ... its not like I am leeching. Just will not download any faster. Rebooted my machine to see if that clears out the cache and so when it starts up it tries other seeds / peers for faster connections. Can I auto drop a seed or peer if they are too slow?

Any help ?

Woody

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When a torrent starts how does it pick which seeds or peers to connect to?

The tracker gives a random list of seeds and peers.

Why not go to all seeds before peers if there are lots of seeds ?

Because no client knows the difference ahead of time.

Can I auto drop a seed or peer if they are too slow?

No.

Have you checked to make sure you are:

1> Reachable (Network OK or UPnP (<port number>) OK in the status bar)

2> Not choking off your line's upload rate by being set at unlimited upload (Uploading too much chokes you off, uploading too little gets you flagged as a bad peer. Both are bad for your download speeds)

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Downloadspeed is NOT directly related to 'what you could download in a certain timeframe'..... you need to take into account that the uploading-peers themselves are (allmost allways) restricted to 'low' speeds for uploading....

In fact ... when you connect to (just for arguements sake) 1000 uploading peers... it does take time to scan them all for usable parts.... and in fact you might get better results having fewer peers to connect to....

In fact ... all peers you probably connect to, to download from, probably are trying to download themselves from (other) torrents.... so in any case it is highly plausible that you will never get max speed from any single peer....

Maxing-out you download is not as simple as setting you download speed/connections to maximum.... it does require bandwith from the other side.....

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