Not Connecting To Peers/Seeders

[Willyamm]

I just recently reformatted, and after I got back setup (Using the same OS as the last time) Utorrent started doing this.

I don't run with that many downloads I just put them all on to show what it is doing, a few of the torrents are from other websites, they too are doing it.

Running on a static IP, with the port open.

AT&T 6.0 MBS DSL

All of the torrents are healthy, with 80+ seeders on most, 20 or so on the lowest one.

Edit: Now it is actually showing the correct number of seeds/peers.

But even so, it wont connect to any of them.

[thelittlefire]

So what does the tracker status column say in the Trackers tab?

[Willyamm]

All torrents have at least 2-3 trackers working, most of the rest are offline/timed out.

[thelittlefire]

Let it sit for a while, or start by lowering your Ctrl-P > Advanced > net.max_halfopen.

Or update to the latest 1.8.1 beta (you can find it in the Announcements forum).

[Switeck]

It is unreasonable to expect that your line can sustain more than 5-10 torrents at once.

Tell us more about your connection and settings in uTorrent.

[Willyamm]

As I said in the post, I only put that many on to show what it was doing.

I normally run with 3-4 depending on how their speeds look.

Connection:

6 MB/s D/L

512 KB/s U/L

Edit:

Upload Limit: 60 (When Not Downloading) 15 (When Downloading)

Max Active Torrents: 3

Max Active Downloads: 3

Connections(Global): 250

Connections(Per Torrent): 100

Upload Slots: 10

I patched my TCPIP.sys.

[Switeck]

This is a problem even when running only 2 torrents at once:

Upload Slots: 10

That would create potentially 20 total upload slots...your upload gets split 20 different ways.

And with upload set to 15 KB/sec while downloading...other peers aren't going to like you enough to upload back to you quickly.

Even while only seeding, 60 KB/sec / 20 total upload slots = a less-than-impressive 3 KB/sec per person you're sending to.

Simple solution: lower upload slots to 4. Lower it further if you're increasing max active torrents greater than 4.

[Willyamm]

Thanks for clearing that up, tweaked all that to give better upload speeds.

But it still didn't help at all with the d/l speed issue, anything else you can think of?

[Switeck]

Downloading at 274 KB/sec while only uploading at 15 KB/sec seems pretty good to me.

[Willyamm]

I wish I got speeds like that .2% of the time, basically this is how it is going.

Right now 2 very healthy torrents both of which 150+ seeders, and less leechers than seeds. They are the only 2 running at the time, and I am getting .7 kbs d/l speed, I'm connected to about 20 seed/leech each per torrent.

In reguards to the U/L speed, anytime I set my upload past 15 kbs, my downloads get cut so harsh that they never do end up downloading.

I've gotta be doing something wrong in my settings somewhere.

[Switeck]

Almost sounds like you're on a hostile ISP.

Do some research, ask around...since I don't know one way or another about BellSouth.