huckles Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 Hey all. Thanks in advance for any who take the time to help out.I'm getting max 8kb/s up or downloads. At the moment, getting only 1kb/s on the open office torrent.The speed gauge applet thing tells me I should be getting more than 1mb/s down and 100kb/s up.I've set up a fixed IP and an open port, green light and all that. I've changed the port a few times.I've checked to see if my ISP is throttling, and it isn't.I've gone through the troubleshooting guide - for everything except trying without the router. Can't use without the router, as I don't know the info for the connection set up, and the housemate who does is away.Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 2nd link in my signature for conservative uTorrent settings.NOTE: Settings are based on max UPLOAD!Your ISP may be disrupting uTorrent, so try increasing encryption settings:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=361747#p361747 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huckles Posted September 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Thanks, Switeck.As I say, I've already been through those guides. So my settings are on the most conservative options. Encryption on, DHT off etc...I have my max speeds on utorrent set to half what the speed test applet tells me my actual upload capacity is. And I've tested whether my ISP is disrupting and according to the test applet it isn't.I'm only running about 20 torrents. There are people waiting to download from me, and sometimes they'll connect very briefly for very slow speeds, but more often than not then they disconnect really quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 20 torrents at once?!Your connection probably isn't rated for 1/4 that many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huckles Posted September 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 What I mean is that I have about 20 completely downloaded torrents available for uploading.My actual upload capacity is at the moment more than 200kb/s, on the first of the speed test applets, and 400kb/s on the other.Should I 'stop' some / most of them?I've had many more available for uploads getting much faster speeds on a slower connection before.../// EDIT:So I've stopped all torrents except the open office torrent, and I'm still only getting 1kb/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Those speed tests are probably returning values in kilobits/second.uTorrent measures speeds in KiloBYTES/second.So 400 kilobits/second...is only 50 KiloBYTES/second theoretical raw bandwidth, of which you might only get 40-45 KiloBYTES/second for uploads at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 20 active seeding torrents is fine as long as your queue settings are no more than 4 active at once.Is/does/can you find any information on your ISPs stance on bandwidth management? Are you allotted a quota to use during the month/day/night-times ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huckles Posted September 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Mmm ok, you must be right there Switeck. Still, my torrents haven't been uploading or downloading at more than 10kb/s on this connection, and right now don't go above 2.My queue settings were actually set to 1 at once!I have no idea about the connection here, unfortunately, as the housemate who set it up is away. I've checked on the net and there seems no mention of the problem on forums where these problems usually arise pretty quickly and thoroughly for ISPs in my country.I have run a test online that actually found normal downlaod connections to be slower than bittorrent connections, and found the bittorrent connections to be giving upload speeds of ~35kb/s.Really have no idea what is going on here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Have you tried seeing how fast the OpenOffice test torrent/s download on your connection?(1st link in my signature for how to find them.)Those torrents are KNOWN to be extremely fast 24/7...if you don't get amazingly high download speeds on them, then we can know your uTorrent problems are not due to "bad torrents". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huckles Posted September 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Yeah, I've tried the Open Office torrent, get downloads on that of max 1.5kb/sI turned off 'peer exchange', but now can't see how to turn it on again - the right click menu in the Trackers tab has the option greyed out. But I think the tracker is down - might explain. (no idea what peer exchange is) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Re-enable it in Preferences. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huckles Posted September 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 It is enabled in Preferences, just not in the Trackers tab, where it says "not allowed"EDIT: it's just started working again. I'm guessing peer exchange is a kind of tracker thing? Cause my main tracker - the one I'm trying to get to work - is down, as is its website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 OH!, well not allowed for DHT/LPD/PEX means the torrent is private (should be enabled in the torrent properties dialog). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Sure sounds to me like P2P is blocked on your connection, as OO should max your connection out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huckles Posted September 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 yeah this is just a matter of the tracker being down, methinks.Still, no explanation of my snail's-pace woes. most frustrating! Thanks for all your helps so far ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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