Lieukeman Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 I hope someone could help me with my questions.PC: P4, 3 GHz, 1 MB ram, 120 GB SATA HDD, XPSP2, TCPIP patched to 100 connectionsConnection: 10mb/s down, 1mb/s up, behind adsl modem router, port forwarded: 50011Have been using µtorrent Betas and now V1.4Settings according to wizard guidelines:Up limit: 92 kB/sDown limit: 0 kB/sGlobal connection: 600Connections/torrent: 100Max active torrents: 6Max active downloads: 5UPnP: disabledUpload slots/torrent: 6net.low_cpu: false, net.max_halfopen: 70, listening port: 50011Other settings at defaultQuestions:1. I believe port should be forwarded properly because NAT is OK. Help statistics showed there are In and Outgoing connections. Peer list showed there are some I flags and blanked port nos. NAT checks indicated port is not opened except http://www.grc.com/x/portprobe=portnumber showed port is open. So is my port really opened to µtorrent?2. Usually have only one active download and one seeding at a time even though wizard recommended more. In this case do I still need to keep the upload slots at 6 or should I increase it and to what value?3. Irregardless of the quality of torrents my download speed always fluatuate between 20 kB/s and 50 kB/s and not higher. Upload speed is always around the set value at 90 kB/s. Exception is the OpenOffice test torrent, I could acheive download speed above 400 kB/s. Are there any settings that I could have missed to improve the download speed?Appreciate some help to my queries. TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyson Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 set our upload speed to 60 and you see downspeed pick up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayers Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 1. With Network Ok you're all set, don't worry about the other tests.2. You don't need to change the upload slots but it's a good idea to check the "Use additional upload slots if speed < 90%" box.3. Since you're getting good speeds with OpenOffice I'd suspect a crappy torrent or crappy tracker. Change those if you can (have you tried private trackers?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lieukeman Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Thank you guys for the prompt replies. Will try the recommendations and post back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lieukeman Posted January 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I'm happy to say that I'm downloading at more than twice my previous speeds.Some questions for Krazyson:1. How is it that reducing the upload speed could have such a huge impact on the download. I was under the impression that the more upload (subjected to 80% cap) the better wll be the download. My previous upload at 92KB/s calculated by the wizard which is 70% of max could not achieve the good speed.2. Could you tell me how do you calculate the "magic" number of 60KB/s for my connection because not satisfied with the much lowered upload cap, I tried playing a bit with the setting and the very moment I increased it only by 1KB/s above 60 the download speed dropped immediately to the old speed (have not tried reducing it below 60 KB/s). This could be good information for others having speed problems that having high upload does not necessarily equate to high downloads.Anyway I am happy with the current speeds and thanks again for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I'm happy to say that I'm downloading at more than twice my previous speeds.Some questions for Krazyson:1. How is it that reducing the upload speed could have such a huge impact on the download. I was under the impression that the more upload (subjected to 80% cap) the better wll be the download. My previous upload at 92KB/s calculated by the wizard which is 70% of max could not achieve the good speed.To put it simply, there are all too many ISPs where the practical upload speed is far less than the theoretical. My theoretical maximum upload is 640 kilobits/sec. In practice, it is more like 512 kilobit/sec and I didn't even notice it was supposed to be the former until recently. The upshot is that you set the upload speed for your practical limit, not your theoretical.2. Could you tell me how do you calculate the "magic" number of 60KB/s for my connection because not satisfied with the much lowered upload cap, I tried playing a bit with the setting and the very moment I increased it only by 1KB/s above 60 the download speed dropped immediately to the old speed (have not tried reducing it below 60 KB/s). This could be good information for others having speed problems that having high upload does not necessarily equate to high downloads.I'd put a guess that he realized that whatever your current setting is, it is crimping, so he decided to recommend a setting about 2/3rds of that to ensure a free path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardcorenumber41 Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I'd say your problem is having 1 MB of ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lieukeman Posted January 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Typo error, should be 1 GB of RAM.Any comments from Krazyson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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