Help Needed!!!!!

[SFactor]

Hi .

I have a dsl connection. average downlaod is 210kB/s and upload is 50kB/s. everything is setup good in utorrent. green status icon, port forwarded neat and clean. my prob is very few torrents dload at the rated 200kB speed mostly my speed remains 70 to 90kB/s upload is fine fine and is capped at 40kB/s (80% of my rated.)

I want to know is this normal or i have a problem with my connection. encryption is enabled. upnp and nat is off. half open is set to 8. using vista ultimate x64 sp1. router is shiro adsl805e. i know about the share ratio and availabilty. the torrents that give me crappy speeds have 10 to 15 availabilty.(the current one i am downlaoding is constant at 18kB). if there is a problem please help me solve it.

also do i need to patch the TCPIP.SYS, but i think there is no need cuz Vista uses 25 half opens right?!

Thanks a lot in advance.

[rafi]

it's normal. you also need the patch. OpenOffice torrent can be a good test for you. In 1.8 would also try the advanced->net.calc_overhead=true

[SFactor]

Yes i tried that but no use. please tell me any alternative for this. also please describe an affective and safe to patch TCPIP.SYS

[jewelisheaven]

Increasing your TCPIP.sys limit WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR SPEED. If you can download the test openoffice or slackware torrents at your maximum sustained download speed then you've just got bad luck. If not, you may be dealing with ISP management or shaping. Does it happen all day every day?

There is no alternative if your ISP mangles with your stuff. You may try 1.8 to see if their shaping is able to be bypassed...

[SFactor]

Thanks for ur time and help.

last night i did the patch thing. well i can say that it does have a positive effect but not that well. BT speeds are still the same but surfing speed has increased.

yes i have tried openoffice torrents and everytime i do that it wow's me with 204kB/s or something very close to it. my isp is not messing with BT i know that for sure.

I wanna know why only some of the torrents work as they r supposed to. before dload anything i always check the seeder VS leecher ratio and read comments to avoid poisoed, fake or overloaded torrents. i guess its my luck then

[Ultima]

There is no specific way torrents are to behave, so you can't say that some torrents aren't working as they're supposed to. Some torrents simply have faster peers, in which case you'll end up with faster speeds.

A higher seed:peer ratio won't guarantee you better speeds. The better metric would be fast:slow peers, but that's impossible to determine.

[SFactor]

Thanks Ultima

it means it is only natural and nothing is wrong . it all depends. well i thought there was some prob with my settings or connection.

Thanks every1 for ur help

[Switeck]

Some torrents have very many peers/seeds that are firewalled. So even though these peers/seeds may be fast, they can only download/upload with peers and seeds that are NOT firewalled. They may also be on bad ISPs that disconnect them often from other peers/seeds...thus slowing things further.