sooojaded Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Hi all, I have been watching my torrents for sometime, and I'd like to know why the number of connections per torrent does not reach its maximum. I have a torrent that was downloading at 1.3kB/s (miserable!) from a seed in the swarm but this torrent does not connect to any other peer. The Seeds and Peers column shows 1(1) and 0(4) respectively. Another torrent shows that I am connected to the seed with the same IP address (and downloading at the same 1.3kB/s, speed fluctuates from 1-2kB/s for both torrents) plus another peer that gives me much better speeds (10kB/s). I was hoping that utorrent lets this torrent connects to some other peer to get a better speed but it doesn't. This is how I configured:Network icon: greenDHT: enabledLocal Peer discovery: disabledPeer Exchange: disabledUPnP: disabledNAT-PMP: disabledGlobal maximum connections: 10Maximum no. of connected peers per torrent: 2Number of upload slots per torrent: 2Upload rate: 19kB/sMax no. of active torrents: 3Max no. of active downloads: 2(I have to severely limit number of connections so that my brothers would stop complaining about laggy DOTA games, and they really did stop.)Speed test results:47.5kB/s (380kbps) down, 32.8kB/s (262kbps) up, 39ms ping from www.speedtest.netSigh I really wished that seed configured his settings properly, if not the speed wouldnt be so pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Try these settings:DHT: disabled (the MASS UDP packets DHT makes is probably causing lag for your brother)Peer Exchange: enabledGlobal maximum connections: 30Maximum no. of connected peers per torrent: 14Number of upload slots per torrent: 2Upload rate: 19kB/sMax no. of active torrents: 3Max no. of active downloads: 2Even these settings are more conservative than listed in my speed guide (2nd link in my signature) for 224 kbit/sec upload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooojaded Posted December 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Hmm the situation doesn't change. It seems that some peers are unwilling to connect to any other than the seed, if not the speed wouldn't be so bad. I did connect to a peer that gives me a good speed for a short while, after which we do not upload anything to each other. I'm guessing the pieces that we both have are the same. I just have to wait for myself to get a piece from the seed very slowly to upload to the peer at a high rate or vice versa. It's alright. Thanks for your suggestion though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Try setting outgoing encryption to Enabled or FORCED.Then test incoming legacy connections both enabled and disabled.Make sure you are NOT firewalled in uTorrent -- as being firewalled vastly reduces the number of peers and seeds you can connect to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooojaded Posted December 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 By the way, I tried your settings earlier and they started to complain again. We argued so much they plucked out the antenna so I could not use wireless. Haiz I can never download my torrents peacefully =(. Not blaming, but its just like that. Wish I had my own internet or smth. Even then...all the ISPs shape traffic...might be paying for worse results. In the end, I set Global max to 10, per torrent to 3. and active torrents 2, active downloads 1. If I get a 10-20kB/s down speed...very happy already. If I upload at 19kB/s they start to complain. How do I thank the ppl that gives me this torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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