thierrywalt Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 I have a real bad situation here: whenerver I try to download from a public tracker, no matter if it has 1 or 10000 seeders and peers, I always get slow speeds. In a 100 KB connection, the most I get is 30 KB.Then , I started downloading from some private trackers. The torrents has way less seeders than the public ones, and with only a few of them connected, I get 100 KB ALL THE TIME.I mean: 10 public seeders = 30 KB 50 public seeders = 30 KB 100 total public connections = 30 KB 7 private seeders = 100 KBWhy does this happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 The number of seeds isn't the only factor that affects your speeds.If your settings are bad for your connection, you WILL have speed suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierrywalt Posted November 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 I always configure it under the real capacities to avoid problems... I knew someone would say that I know that more isn't always better.The number doesn't matter, as shown in the table. More seeders, less seeders... What changes is if it is private or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 There are a large number of factors to consider.http://utorrent.com/setup_guide.phphttp://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34259 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierrywalt Posted November 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Ok, I set everything as it should, but the thing is: is it is a bad configuration issue, why it only happens with public trackers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Marginal torrents REQUIRE you to have good settings to get even ok results.Private trackers with 10 seeds per every peer...you can have crap settings and still get good speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierrywalt Posted November 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 I am using exactly the recommended settings for my connection...And, the torrents have around 3 seeders for each peer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 It still seems likely your ISP is screwing you over, either by throttling/disrupting BitTorrent and/or giving you a slower connection than they claimed to.But just to confirm...What settings are you using in uTorrent's Speed Guide (CTRL+G) window?What measured speeds down and up do you get when you do a speed test? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierrywalt Posted November 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I can download at 103 KBs (high speed http server) and upload at 32 KBs (in uTorrent, imageshack and badongo). I also thought it was my ISP, I even started looking for a VPN, when I just downloaded three private torrents at maximum speed, and to confirm, i downloaded another from other tracker, and the same: max speed.I tried to configure it both as the speed guide and as it says here: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34259. None of them worked.If it is indeed my ISP, you think it is possible they would throttle only public torrents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 So in my speed guide, you choose nothing higher than 320 kilobit/second upload?Did you try very low connection max?Like 10 per torrent and 20 or fewer global.net.max_halfopen set to 1-4?Disabled DHT, LPD, UPnP, NAT-PMP, and Resolve IPs?Even try forced encryption outgoing and NO incoming legacy connections? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierrywalt Posted November 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 here we go: set net.max_halfopen to 3 (it was 8), and i got from 30 to 59 kb/s (isn't mnore half-opn connections a requirement for torrent to work?)disabled ip resolve. dht i vever use cause my modem simply doesn't handle it.upnp i use to configure my modem. does it change something?i always set it as 256 kb/s, not even 320... forced encryption always on...so, as I said, it sudenly raised to 59 kb/s, then it fell back to 30 kb/s and now it is in 55... can someone understand it???i think the trick was net.max_halfopen, because I always had like 60 seeder connected, but only 5 where active... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 You could lower net.max_halfopen at times to ZERO and uTorrent could still work...but it cannot stay 0 all the time, as it cannot update trackers while set to 0.Incoming connections do NOT count against the half open connection limit.Did you try disabling ALL those other things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierrywalt Posted November 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 ok, I am downloading a private torrent with 1 seeder and 49 peers. did you get it? only one seeder. And I am downloading hyper-fast with utorrent recommended settings...do you realise it has nothing to do with the seeder/peers ratio?somebody help me!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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