RainDoc Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 First, the required, but (mostly) irrelevant stuff:- Yes, I have 'network ok'- DSL 256kBit down, 128 up. (Teh Sux0r max0r, I know).- WinXP- No firewall on the machine, but traffic nat'd to internet.- Isp reasonabally nice Now the actual problem.I'm seeding quite a few torrents on a private tracker (30?), at the moment nobody is connected to me. BUT in the status bar, and on the graph on the "speed" tab, utorrent is showing uploads, and downloads. It varies, but generally seems to be about 4kB/s up, 2kB/s down.In the down speed, and up speed columns in the main part of the window, no up or down to be seen. I've only noticed this recently, but it may have always been there - just there's always been someone connected before, masking the oddity.Anyone have any ideas what traffic this is - seems a lot to be just status traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 might be DHT traffic, although in my case it is usually less than 1KB/s and not constant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainDoc Posted December 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Yep, seems to be DHT traffic. Unchecked 'enable DHT' in torrent options, and the vast majority of unexplained traffic went away. Odd thing is, 29/30 of the torrents had DHT disabled in their properties, and the other one was stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 if you have bt.scrape_stopped = true in the advanced preferences, than µtorrent will scrape stopped torrents as well.Edit: you can also see if DHT is on in the status bar of µtorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Stopped scrapes is broke in 1.3, hofshi.DHT is always in use regardless of the torrent, it's a separate decentralized network. TYPICALLY the bandwidth use is much much lower (.1-.2 kb/s both ways), but if you're connected for a very long time it can increase to much higher amounts as you become used by other DHT users as a reliable node for DHT data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 in that case, I urge you to keep the dht.rate customizable in the following versions of µtorrent. In my country the upload speeds are ridiculusly low, and "much higher amounts" will eat all my u/l speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 dht.rate should never be customizeable by a user, it's an internal value in other clients for a reason. And it's an internal value in µTorrent too (in the betas). Too much possibility to degrade DHT performance and/or completely screw it up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 So to avoid choking my u/l I will have to exit µtorrent every once in a while to avoid being "connected for a very long time" ? How often will I have to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 Can't you just turn it off? And uh, just turn it on when you need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 this can work too, but I still would have prefered a way to avoid choking my modest u/l speed. ( as there is currently in v1.3) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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