Upload limiting doesn't work properly

[jackiehcs]

I have one seeding task and one downloading task, and for the downloading task, I set the the upload limit and download limit to 3KB/s and 75KB/s respectively.

When I set the global upload limit to, say, 45KB/s, the upload speed for the seeding task is lowered to 35KB/s or usally even lower.

Once I set it to unlimited, the upload speed increases rapidly to above 45KB/s.

I have only encountered such an issue in using the 1.8.1 version.

[DreadWingKnight]

1> why are you setting an upload limit that rudely low?

2> have you tried without a download limit set?

[Switeck]

Choose more appropriate settings from the 2nd link in my signature.

[indio68]

i see this bug too...when i set general upload limit this doesn't work and don't bybass my max upload setting in Option \preference...this wont happend in previous version.

and yes i have set all form guide tweaks...

[Switeck]

If you have different upload speed maximums set in Scheduler, general upload, alternate upload, and on individual torrent upload...only the highest priority one will be used even if the others are much lower values.

I've also seen upload not reaching maximum due to using too few upload slots and due to HOSTILE ISPs. (I'm on ComCast, so on torrents with lots of other HOSTILE ISPs...it's hard to max my upload.)

Encryption settings may help.

[thelittlefire]

What is the general upload limit? Are you setting per-torrent limits as well?

[indio68]

i mean lovering upload with task icon....with right clik...doesnt' work...don't lover to limit i set there...only if i clik on single torrent opening utorrent,finally upload slow...sry english.

[thelittlefire]

Setting the limit from the tray icon does not work? I don't think right clicking in context menus works.. you need to left click.

Does setting the limit from the status bar in the main window work?

[Switeck]

FORCED started torrents may override scheduler upload max.

Individual torrent's upload speeds may override overall max upload speed.

Local peers WILL ignore upload speed max unless told otherwise.

If upload slots are set to 1, current upload speed will likely fail to reach upload speed max at least part of the time.

None of those are bugs, but may be unwanted/unexpected behavior.

[indio68]

yes setting upload limit on main windows both work in Option and right clikking on single torrent...doesnt' working right clikking on Limit Upload on tray icon -

this in previous versaion wont happened

[thelittlefire]

... Could you list the exact steps you do, or worst scenario, a mini-video?

Clicking on the tray icon sets the limits here.

[shin.qw]

Hello,

I've found similar problem:

I need to reduce my upload to 60kb/s in my network during day.

But the problem is that when I will reduce upload speed in the schedule every time I start downloading new torrents my upload speed start rising.

Are you sure that schdule limit reduce outside trafic during download?

shin

[Switeck]

Local Peers can exceed your set upload speed max unless you disable that in uTorrent.

[shin.qw]

I've already disabled it

[thelittlefire]

What numbers are you experiencing... when torrenting there is always additional upload based upon settings, and download speed. For instance, when I max my Clearwire, with just seeds and 10 peers I'm uploading > 3 KiBps which has gotten me into trouble from time to time.. and I'm not uploading anything

[shin.qw]

I can give you scenario:

- I have upload limited to 15kb/s

- i'm starting to downlaod 2-3 files

- site that is showing stats notice change in upload from 15 to even 100kb/s

- then i'm reciving ban for week for too much upload during day ;]

[Switeck]

Do you ever see L: at the bottom of uTorrent's window in the download or upload speed area?

[shin.qw]

L: ? I don't see it.

[Switeck]

Even when uploading faster than you told it?

[shin.qw]

what do you mean "L:" I've never seen it. I don't know how it looks like. I'm using polish version of utorrent 1.8.1 b:12639

[thelittlefire]

The numbers and letter labels you see correspond to "L: local peers" "U: upload amount" and "D: download amount" or the analog in your localization.... though I don't know if they'd change them.

[shin.qw]

I'ce never seen L or local pers:

a i have only "speed has been limited by schedule | dht was disabled | Network is OK | download speed | download amount | upload speed | upload amount"

Mayby utorrent doesn't limit every outgoing traffic during start of torrent?

[Switeck]

DHT and other features are not fully subject to upload speed max.

[shin.qw]

I'm just telling what is at the bottom of window.

My last suspection is based that, everytime I notice this problem when I'm starting new download and after a while upload speed stabilize at normal limit speed.

[mer-q-ree]

I'm using µtorrent 1.8.2 at the moment but I resent this version because I never had this problem with the previous versions.

It turned out that all the individual upload limits for each newly added torrent are set to "unlimited" as a default. But even now that I limited them all manually to 40 kB/s my overall upload limit is sometimes ignored. Before I limited them all individually my upload limit was constantly ignored after some minutes. This is really annoying because it slows down my browser and even when I watch a movie (when I don't surf) and µtorrent is running in the background my downloads are also slowed down when my upload limit is ignored. Ignored means it will set itself to unlimited and rises up to 55 or > 60 kB/s which is too much for my connection.

Please, consider this for the next version. I don't know why this happens with 1.8.2 but I might switch back to an older version because this bug is intolerable.