test45 Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Whilst I do agree that leeching should be improved upon (with existing versions of utorrent you could manually set each individual torrent to upload at 1kB/s which often allowed you to download at high speed whilst seeding very little) I was wondering whether there had been changes to tackle the issue and this work around in the latest version of utorrent.Occasionally I do throttle torrent uploads back a little (there are upload bandwidth limits in place with my ISP and uploading hard tends to increase normal browsing loading times - There have also been increased threats against bit torrent users here which seem to target those latched on to torrents and perhaps those seeding the most) but noticed that doing so in the latest version seems to hamper download speeds (as you get when you decrease the global upload limit below 10kB/s).Has there been a change? If so is it possible to never reach full capacity if your upload limit is low or does it take into consideration the imbalance between upload and download speeds (I can upload at around 25kB/s max but download at around 230kB/s)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 230/25 is 9.2x disparity between your down/upload capacity. The ability for leechers to abuse upload restrictions in 1.7 was swiftly dealt with in 1.8 public release last year, and lasted until earlier this month. It was set to 12x multiplier to take into account your "imbalance". It stayed so until leecher outcry over 1.8 release made the developers remove it. Sad state of affairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
test45 Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 So there is no limit in V1.8 build 11813? It just seemed a little uniform in terms of download speed (they're torrents that should be pretty quick as they are fairly well seeded and have a decent seeder to leecher ratio).For example I've set my current downloads to 1kB/s upload to test again and they've dropped back down to 11-12kB/s download.I suppose it's not a massive issue (though if limits were in place perhaps some visual feedback - such as the speed graph line which appears when you drop global upload speeds to below 10kB/s - might have been useful). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 The 12x limit IS in 11813, you can verify that by looking in the General tab, you see next to download speed it says download limited? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 It's currently ONLY the v1.8.1 beta versions that remove the limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Needless change <grumble, grumble> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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