Many seeds/peers in the pool but cant connect

[sumasage]

I am running a fresh install of uTorrent 1.8.1 with most settings at default.

Port 12153

global max connection: 600

max connect per torrent: 120

DHT - disabled

Protocol Encryption - enable and allow incoming legacy

I am download a few torrents that have many seeds, for example (800+) and peers (6000+) but i am only connect to 5 seeds and 17 peers. Seem like all settings are ago since i can connect to them. I think with that many people in the "pool" i should at least connect to more seeds/peers. This are torrents that i am trying to download for about a week now so i did give it plenty to time to try to connect to more seeds/peers.

I've also tested to see if Comcast is throttling speed but the test report they are not.

I am running windows vista ultimate SP1 - dont know if the half open connection limitation is effecting this. I check the Event Viewer and does not see any event ID 4226 report. So i am not sure what could've cause this.

Please help. Thanks in advance

[douginiraq]

I am having a similar issue. 3 of 7500 seeds and 3 of 6000 peers. Only difference was that mine completely quit for 3 days. Supposedly attributed to this

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122990369002025163.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I have also tried disabling DHT, Encryption, and the possible combinations of these settings. No luck.

Any ideas?

[sumasage]

Hmmm....i am not sure about the article you posted. I've been having this issue for over three weeks now. I dont think it has anything to do w/ that.

Edit note: I'm downloading a torrent that have 13000+ seed and 11000+ peers. I am able to connect ~50 seeds and ~50 peers and getting ~220kb speed. This make me wonder if it could be the tracker or particular i am trying to download from? Of course the one i am downloading now have way more seeds/peers the other one. Any thoughts?