croove55 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 uTorrent is working fine, and I've downloaded my first torrent with it. However, my ISP is the infernal Comcast and my upload speed of course gets throttled. In retaliation, I have set my upload speed to unlimited. However, any peers that start downloading quickly disconnect from me, and I can't upload anything. My guess is that they think I'm leeching by the looks of my (highly limited) upload speed, and they promptly remove me. I can tell that there are plenty of people seeding(43) and downloading(23 on the peer list) the file, but my connection is promptly disregarded. I'm just worried my download/upload ratio. It will literally take somewhere around a few years at this rate to hit a ratio of 1 (I'm currently at 0.047) , and I don't want to be a jerk. Any solutions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 No it's Comcast. Follow the speed problems sticky http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992 and http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34259 for lowering your settings DRASTICALLY to start to see if it stops disconnecting you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Speed hardly matters. Choose FORCED encryption outgoing, and disable legacy (unencrypted) connections incoming.Sometimes enabling legacy connections incoming doesn't seem to hurt...as ComCast allows 1 or 2 of them for some reason.DISABLE: UPnP, NAT-PMP LPD, DHT (both kinds!), and Resolve IPs (right-click in PEERS window on an active torrent).That should eliminate UDP packets from uTorrent. You only need to port forward TCP this way. Some routers do not handle UDP and TCP forwarded to the same port reliably.Keep Peer Exchange enabled...it should be encrypted due to above settings.Lower net.max_halfopen to only 1-4. (Constantly making 4 new connections outgoing at once should be enough if uTorrent is not firewalled!) Even setting it to 0 for awhile may make SandVine less likely to disconnect when you put it back to 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foomonger Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 You need to leave upload capacity for sending back ACK packets (which is sort of like a "yes, got that packet, send the next one now"). Without this, no TCP communication can complete, and you keep requesting the same packet over and over until the computer at the other end gives up on you.-fm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awinash Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 i am new to the world of torrents. can anyone help me with the ideal download/upload ratio? i currently stand at 0.932... also, how do i seed? the steps i followed are given below:1) file->add torrent (no default save)2) selected torrent and clicked open3) i get a dialog box that says: "the torrent you are trying to add is already in the list of torrents. do you want to load the trackers from it?"the options i have are yes and no. what's the meaning of this error and what is the meaning of tracker??? what am i expected to select(yes/no)???if i want to go ahead and seed the torrent... how do i do it???? thanks a lot for your support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foomonger Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Seeding happens all by itself. As soon as you have even one complete piece, you will be seeding. When the download is complete, you automatically become a "seed". You don't need to do anything; it just happens.If you are uploading data, at all, you are seeding.-fm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awinash Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 hey... that sounds jus great... thanks for ur reply.... and oh... btw... wat wud u say is the ideal dload/uload ratio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foomonger Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 1:1, or more.-fm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awinash Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 oh...if u noticed my initial post i sd my ratio stands at 0.932... i am currently downloading my first torrent file ever for the last 4 or 5 hours... and right now the ratio has dropped to 0.878... is it bad??? wat can i do to make it go higher??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foomonger Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Simply leave your torrent running until the upload quantity matches the download quantity, and you achieve a 1:1 ratio. With fast torrents, it is inevitable that when you have completed downloading, you ratio will be poor; it's expected. But so long as you leave the torrent uploading long enough, your ratio will, in time, equalize. -fm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Make sure uTorrent's settings are not too much for your connection, so you can upload close to but below your max.2nd link in my signature for suggested uTorrent settings.NOTE: Settings are UPLOAD BASED! Your download and upload max are probably NOT equal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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