Have I set uT Preferences properly? Re: Upspeed / Downspeed.

[kiotiMac]

I have just changed some settings in uT 1.8.1 Preferences because I thought that the ' Ratio' was a bit low being less than 1, more like 0.030.

Having changed the 'Max Global Upload Rate' from 20kb/s to Automatic, the Upspeed has trebled and the 'Ratio' for the three active torrents are now 0.366, 0.068 and 0.128. The latter figure is for a finished torrent that is now seeding.

Upload speeds are now 40kb/s to 60kb/s for the two torrents that are downloading and 8-10kb/s for the torrent that is seeding.

Download speed increased also.

The torrent sizes respectively are 1.85GB, 6.27GB and 180MB.

Are the settings that I list below correct and set for optimum performance?

The only change that I did make was to the ' Bandwidth: Global Upload Rate Limiting' option.

Connection:

UPnP port mapping and NAT-PMP port mapping are both enabled.

Listening Port:48484

Router is Port Forwarded and I have the 'Green' go icon.

Bandwidth:

Global Upload Rate Limiting:..............................................Automatic

Global Download Rate Limiting:..........................................0

Global maximum numbers of connections:............................200

Maximum number of connected peers per torrent:.................50

Number of upload slots per torrent.....................................10

Box is ticked to Use additional upload slots if upload speed is < 90%

DHT is enabled for Network and New torrents

Local Peer discovery and Peer Exchange are Enabled

Protocol Encryption

Outgoing:...............................................Disabled

Incoming legacy connections:....................Enabled

Queueing:

Maximum number of active torrents ( upload or download):...........10

Maximum number of active downloads.......................................10

Seed While [Default values]

Ratio is: <= 150 % or seeding time is: <= (min).........................0

When uTorrent reaches the seeding goal:

Limit the upload rate to (kb/s): [0:stop]........The box is unticked and I have not entered a figure into the option window.

Your advice is most welcome.

Thanking you in advance.

KiotiMac :thumbs:

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DSL connection to the Internet: average Downlad speed 1.6Mb/s, upload speed 750Mb/s.

[moogly]

What is your max UL speed of your connection, that's the most important to set uT properly.

[kiotiMac]

moogly, if by 'max UL speed' of the connection is the one that the ISP mentioned to me when I opened my account with them, I can't tell at the moment because I can not recall what they said.

I have just tested the UL & DL speeds using the built in utility of uT and received the following figures

from Los Angeles speedtest site: DL = 459Kb/s and UL = 203Kb/s

from New York speedtest site: DL = 671Kb/s and UL = 211Kb/s

That's less than a third of readings I usually get.

Anyway, if those are not the figures you refer to, I can't find out what the ones you ask about until tomorrow. I'm in New Zealand and the ISP I use is Snap.net.nz. I don't think I can get through to technical advice at weekends, but I will try to phone them and find out what you ask, if they are 24/7.

BBS

[moogly]

OK. You can use http://www.speedtest.net/ and run 3 or 4 tests to compute an average of your UL speed (stop p2p, websurfing during the test).

Then look at this array about settings: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34259

and find your ref.

[kiotiMac]

ok, I will get on to that in a sec.

No-one to advise me at snap.net.nz but I went to their site and get this info for "Naked DSL" Broadband....it is full DL speed of 7.6Mbps but due to variables I can expect at a minimum 2Mbps.

No mention is made of UL maximum speed, Sorry. I will try the things you suggest even though initially I did do a group of 10 speedtests, found an average for them and divided that average figure by 8 to get a figure of around 70Kbps which I set in the appropriate box for 'Global Upload Rate Limiting'. Then I reduced it to 20kbps about 6 weeks ago until tonight.

However, I'll get on with the tests and post the results here when done.

Thanks

ok, I did 10 speedtests at the site you gave link to and the results are below. Strangely, the site is the same one that I tested DL & UL speeds 6-8weeks ago.

The Thread and replys to it at http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=361023#p361023 I had read recently but Switek's one at http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34259 I hadn't read and that is the one that I think will point me in the right direction, though both links are helpful.

Perhaps you could advise me on the choices I have made to set UL correctly with the information that I have acquired from all sources to hand.

avg. UL Speed from 10 tests:7575kbps / 10 = 757.5kbps

Then, using switek's suggested settings and using the settings for an UL Max of 700kbps and 768kbps, I will input the following figures into their respective places;

UL MAX UPLOAD. CONNECTIONS. MAX. ACTIVE.

UL Limit. Slots. TORR. MAX. TORR. DOWN.

700kbps 70 5 45 140 5 3

That's what I will set up and see how it goes.

Have more reading to do on the subject as well.

The avg. DL Speed was 66,114kbps/10 = 6,611.4kbps. Now that's more like it but alas I don't get that. Best I've had is 4000kbps but that is rare. Before I made the changes earlier tonight DL could be anything from between 0 to 500 (kbps).That's life and the luck of the .torrent, seed/peer draw.

Thanks for the pointers.