µtorrent steals all availible bandwidth

[Ultima]

Interesting... I never thought of that... but the fact remains that it works properly on Azureus while not on µTorrent -- patched or unpatched. Let's just hope this is an isolated case, or better yet, can be solved...

[1c3d0g]

Yes, I've heard some post-SP2 patches revert the half-open connections back to default (10). Stupid M$. :mad:

[Ultima]

Oh I knew that, just never considered that in this situation ;P

[xathras]

i knew qnd no one was listenening

[Firon]

I've yet to experience that :/

[Trix]

I expierence this too. utorrent didn't always do this to my connection, but it does now. I've also seen some posts on betanews.com comments that have said similar things. I do think it is worth looking into utorrent being the problem and not the half-open connection limit. Mine is patched to 100 as well.

[suzhi]

I have exactly the same problem and nothing helps. With Bit Comet or any other Client I can surfe like hell but just in the moment I start µtorrent it slows my connection down to zero. I cannot recieve Mails, RSS Feeds neighter can I surf with FF or IE.

Now I've tested if I have maybe too much files in seed but even if i have no torrent in my programm loaded it slows everything down.

Any solution? Expet for this problem µtorrent is the best client ever but unacceptable with this bug (?).

mfg

suzhi

[Trix]

I would like to note That Azureus does not do this for me, but Bitcomet does. Bitcomet is crap in my opinion though. Like I said before too, utorrent didn't used to do this to me.

[Firon]

Trix, suzhi, have you tried turning off DHT? Or if you have a firewall, uninstalling it?

[suzhi]

DHT is off and I have no Firewall.

mfg

suzhi

[Firon]

suzhi: you've patched tcpip.sys right?

[suzhi]

I think so. With this little Console app. I have set the Connections on 50 and rebooted.

Can I maybe reset all preferences of µtorrent so that it is like a new installation?

[Firon]

Yeah, delete settings.dat and settings.dat.old from %AppData%\uTorrent

[suzhi]

It's akward I just startet µtorrent (and my computer was off since yesterday) and everything goes normal. Hmm...

Ok, my problem seems solved even if I don't no how

Big thx for your help and I will stand by µtorrent

mfg

suzhi

[tCm]

I have the same problem.

I can't figure out what to do...

I done all that is metioned in the mini-guide (patching and such...)

I have a 2/0.4Mbit connection, Zonealarm fire wall, Mozilla browser, no router...

Is it a bug in µtorrent?

/tCm

[Switeck]

Zonealarm fire wall seems a contributor to alot of the problems people are having, with its poor handling of high packets per second rate that's typical of µTorrent running at full speed.

There are better software firewalls...though I don't use one myself because I have a router.

[Ultima]

Never heard of ZoneAlarm causing applications to steal all bandwidth though =T

[tCm]

I've tried disabeling both zone alarm (my firewall) and kaspersky (anti virus with real time protection). It doesn't help. I have also messured the network activity with PTRG Traffic Grapher and µTorrent running alone shows between 550Kbit and 700Kbit /s.

These values shouldn't affect my browser right..? (I have 2/0.4Mbit conection).

I also closed µTorrent and downloaded PTRG just to see what the graph showed and I read a steady 2430Kbits/s!

/tCm

[Firon]

Disabling generally won't help, only an uninstall. Try uninstalling ZA?

[tCm]

Disabling generally won't help, only an uninstall. Try uninstalling ZA?

Ok, tried that. Didn't work.

If it IS a bug in µT, can I send like some sort of snapshot of my system/memory for µT-staff to look at?

/tCm

[tCm]

Allright!!

I managed to fix the problem!

Allthought It's pretty stranges since I tried to uninstall Zone Alarm..? :/

I entered ZA's Program Control and clicked the Programs tab and changed the settings for mozilla Firefox to;

Trustlevel - Super (three green bars)

Access - Trusted & Internet - Allow (green ticks)

Server - Trusted & Internet - Block (red x's)

[Ultima]

Whoa Firefox settings affects µTorrent? If it's actually the solution, this is a must add to the FAQ... the solution is really elusive right now =T

[tCm]

Sorry, Ignore previuos message... I thought those Zone Alarm settings did the trick, but sorry to say it didn't.

I'm now starting too wonder whether this issue perhaps has something to do with windows pagefile and HD speed. Heres how I'm thinking:

I have a Laptop with only one HD (it's partioned if it matters), most defenetly running at 5400rpm.

I assume µTorrent is caching data in memory before writing it on disk.

Here comes my thesis, Windows, µT program, the stuff being cached by µtorrent, (and probably alot more apps aswell), all using the pagefile frequently. This, plus the actual writing to HD by µT, is handled on a single 5400rpm HD.

Am I close to something?

If all the above is true, a sollution would be to have µtorrent not using pagefile and an option to control the amount of data µT is caching in memory before writing to disk.

[Firon]

diskio.write_queue_size

[tCm]

Sorry 'bout that!

One should think before seaking ang read before thinking!

I'm truly about to give up on the issue...

I tied tweeking a bit with the diskio. options without luck.

A wiered thing is that when I've only got about 35kB down and 30kB up it's really slow. But when downloading Open Office I have about 230kB down and 0.2kB up, it's all smooth!

This is getting me to think that ISP is not delivering the maximum upload rate I pay for (0.4Mbit) and tha the problem is in upload rather then in download.

I have done all steps mentioned in the mini-guide incl. patching TCP/IP.