kraigturner Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I'm having problem connecting to a suitable number of peers on any given torrent. This is greatly affecting my DL speeds.As an example I'm currently dl a torrent with over 900 seeds and over 1100 peers but yet I'm only connecting to 33 and 17 peers respectively. Let me say that the port is open, uTorrent has the green light, and I have selected 200 peers per torrent. Why am I connecting to so few peers?Can any one help?Thank you,Kraig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 You don't need to connect to every peer. 50 peers is sufficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 If the other peers/seeds have reached max connections, they won't let you connect to them.If they're firewalled, you cannot connect to them.If they've already left the torrent but the tracker and other peers/seeds still report them...not only can you not connect to them...then the reported numbers for peers/seeds will be higher than there really is -- possibly MUCH higher!Even if you have a 100 megabit/second symmetric connection, you don't really need to connect to more than 50 connections per torrent.You may have other (probably very serious) problems.Maybe your connection is overloaded?Is your upload equally crippled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kraigturner Posted November 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 The amount of peers is always low. It doesn't matter what the torrent is. My upload connection is horrible as well. When I'm a seed I only connect to 1 peer even though I specified 10 peers per torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 20, 2008 Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 Do any internet searches (google and the like) to see if your ISP disrupts/throttles/blocks BitTorrent in any way?Tried changing encryption settings in uTorrent?Tried the 1st and 2nd links in my signature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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