nabilalk Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Hi, quick question on Seeds/Peers display. In the screenshot below, what is the significance of the numbers inside the parentheses versus the numbers outside of them? Often times when I am downloading a torrent, it shows for example for seeders 25 (200). Does the 25 mean that these are the seeders that I am connected to, and the 200 is the total number of seeders? Lifewise for the peers, whats the significance of numbers outside versus inside ()?Thanks!-nka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17154So yes, "25 (200)" means you're connected to 25 of 200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabilalk Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 I see. What settings can I tweak in utorrent so that I´m connecting to all available seeds, or is that not possible? Thanks!-nka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Seeds may have gone offline...are firewalled...or just reached their max connections limit on that torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 You don't have to connect to every seed anyway. seed != speed, and seed != the only guarantee that you'll finish the torrent. Connecting to too many peers won't necessarily help you on either front, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabilalk Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Hmm...I just figured that the more seeds that I was connected to, the greater the speed of the download. Is that not the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabilalk Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 So I guess that in the screen above, since I am seeding all of those torrents, I am connected to 0 seeders, and the number in () indicates how many other users are seeding? Likewise for the Peers, the numbers on the outside represent the # of peers connected to me and the #in () indicates the total number of people downloading that particular torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Yes, as I explained, it's "connected (total)."Is your port forwarded properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabilalk Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 cool that clears it up for me, thanks.Strangely enough it appears that my port is not forwarded properly, although I have the green circle indicating that everything is copacetic. I'm using tomato firware on a Linksys WRT54G and have forwarded port 55555 on both TCP & UDP. What else do I need to do to forward it?Could it have failed the test b/c my brother is using his Xbox 360 and crippling the network in the process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 What modem are you using? Have you set a static IP up for your computer outside of the WRT54G's DHCP range? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabilalk Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 I have not set a static ip outside of the routers DHCP range. How do I do that?In addition PG2 is running and I when I tried to add 72.20.34.145 to the allow list, it asked me to place a http:// in front of the 72.20.34.145. I have done that, is that the proper way to add utorrent to Peer Guardian's exclusion list?Update: After I shut down PG2 the test passed. How can I properly set up pg2 so that 72.20.34.145 is excluded from being blocked? Obviously the way I did it above is incorrect.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 http://www.portforward.com/networking/staticip.htmFind the router's DHCP range. It should be something like 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.149 (50 IPs) by default, in which case something like 192.168.1.50 would be outside of the range.I don't use PG2, so I can't really answer that question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabilalk Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Ok it says its open now. What is the advantage of setting the static ip outside of the routers DHCP range, and forgive me for asking but what is the DHCP range? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCPLets your router assign an IP for your computer dynamically. The static IP needs to be outside the range because Linksys routers often simply refuse to forward poprts to an IP that is potentially owned by different computers at different times (it's dynamic, so different computers can take an IP that another computer was once using). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabilalk Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Thanks for clearing that up. As far as the forwarding of ports for utorrent, I'm assuming that both UDP&TCP should be forwarded for the port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 UDP isn't completely necessary unless you use DHT, but it doesn't hurt to forward it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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