Internet browsers murdered by 1.8

[Mit Man]

Downgrading fixed this, but as soon as I upgraded to 1.8, my internet went insane.

I seed 150+ torrents, and they don't upload very often at all. Previous utorrent versions were fine, and my computer ran at a normal speed while seeding these (I've got the XP SP2 ports opened up or whatever [to 1000...], router's configured, I setup my settings again when I downloaded 1.8, yadayadayada).

When I got 1.8 though, Firefox and IE suffered from just not doing their job. I would have to click links around 10 times before they started to load anything, and it would load for a few seconds, any longer and it would cut the page short and not finish loading things like images.

I suppose it's probably just another issue with 1.8 and has no fix right now, but maybe this would happen to anyone seeding so many torrents and it should probably be known.

EDIT: Actually, my internet is still running pretty slow even with the older utorrent running. Not nearly as bad, but the internet's not nearly as fast as it should be.

EDIT: Actually, I'm having this problem in full effect still. @_@ I don't know what happened. I broke like 160 torrents and then everything went downhill. Are there any specific settings I should having going to speed things up?

[l2k]

I've noticed similar results seeding around 300 torrents.

[DreadWingKnight]

Or maybe you're doing things wrong.

Set the net.max_halfopen in uTorrent down to BELOW 8 and see what happens.

[Mit Man]

Set the net.max_halfopen in uTorrent down to BELOW 8 and see what happens.

This

seems to have alleviated the problem. Mine was definitely at 150. Don't know if it was always that high (as I hadn't had this problem before), but it looks like that worked. Didn't even know that option existed. I'm guessing this does something to lessen the amount of simultaneous connections across all the torrents, yet they're all still active and able to be connected to if needed?

[l2k]

Is there a guide somewhere to all these "advanced options"?

[thelittlefire]

Ultima's user manual @ http://utorrent.com/download.php Or you can get the manual from the help menu in 1.8.

[DreadWingKnight]

the halfopen connection limit is the number of connection attempts that are active at a time.

There is NO reason to have it above 8, and if it's going to be adjusted, it needs to be set BELOW 8.

Microsoft likes to un-patch the halfopen limit back to 10. Having a halfopen limit 8 or less (some people have ideal results with 3) is the REAL solution.

It does not affect the number of fully open connections you can have.

[Switeck]

Even if Half open connection limit is set to 1 in uTorrent, you can get FAR more connections far faster than that from people trying to connect to you if you're not firewalled. I've seen large torrents with 1000+ peers+seeds...that had >4 new incoming connections per second that didn't count against my half open limit.

And in any case, half open connection limit is NOT the same as max connections allowed at once.