Reckoner Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Hey,So basically my problme is this. I started using Windows 7 on Sunday and I just reinstalled Vista. In vista I downloaded a torrent just fine, but in Windows 7 I can't get more then 10kB/s download and barely any uploading.All my settings are default in Vista, so I tried downloading the same torrent on Vista as I am in 7. With Vista (home basic) I was getting 350 kB/s downloads but again I can't get any higher then 10 on 7.Does anybody else have the same problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuruGod Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Yes! And its driving me mad. I noticed I got a tiny msg at the bottom stating "Disk overloaded 100 %".Found on another thread what seemed to be a solution, Disk Overloaded 100%; but alas I was soon back to 9 kB/s. Back to square one.I will be watching this thread for any solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eschleicher Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 I was having this same problem. I tried a bunch of things including setting the override automatic disk cache checkbox and putting 2000 in the box. this workes for a bit but then utorrent sucks up a ton of memory and virtual disk space and eventually quits working. I then tried to set the compatibility mode to vista and set it to run as administrator (after unchecking the override automatic disk check setting) and so far it has been running for an hour+ with no problems. before I would get the disk overload error after about 30 min or less. So hopefully this fixed it until someone comes up with a real fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fogkeebler Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Hey folks. Just wanted to add my 2 cents in hopes that it helps, from what i was able to do to fix the speed issue somewhat.Utorrent does in fact work oddly on Win7. Even though i have the firewall turned off and all the other security goodies i still get a red skittle. Even though i tell utorrent to check the port and it comes back as good.I suffered from speed issues you until today. I was downloading a file and was getting 1.2kb on it since yesterday. (my speed now on this particular torrent is between 60k and 80k and consistent) So what you need to do first is most important. 1. Close Utorrent down2. go to window button (start menu) find utorrent and RIGHT CLICK on its shortcut. Click RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.3. Start your download, then look at the log and you will notice the error about the firewall exception is gone and your downloads will speed up.4. fallow the guides laid out in Switeck's signature. Specifically this one 2nd:Recommended uTorrent settings: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34259After doing these things my speeds increased. Im still working on resolving the green skittle issue but as i have seen from my download experience on Win7 it seems to be a non issue as i have gotten download speeds that were normal to me on XP, which is of course determined alot by the torrent seeders and peers.Remember too that Win7 is a beta and not every piece of software we use on a daily basis is going to work 100%--EDIT--Ok i just resolved the issue with the green skittle and my speeds have gotten back to normal. I fallowed a post by Ultima (a moderator on these forums). The infor in his post:"- Hover over the network status light in µTorrent's status bar and tell us what the tooltip writes.- Does changing ports stop this error from occurring?- Grab TCPView from sysinternals.com, run it, and see ifthere are any other applications using your listening port."I crabed the program he talked about and checked. Sure enough even though utorrent did the port check and said it was open and good to go i found another process using the torrent. I just simply choose another port, added the port to my firewall to pass and changed Utorrent for the new port. Closed down and restarted; problem fixed. -- U still have to run Utorrent in administrator mode -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reded23 Posted February 14, 2009 Report Share Posted February 14, 2009 Judging by the many other posts this is a common problem. I tried the things sugested here with little improvement. My XP machine with same torrents is 8x faster. The other issue with uTorrent and W7 is that it doesnt shutdown either. You cant even quit the process using task manager !Someone at uTorrent must know why ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fogkeebler Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 Reded23Did you do a fresh install of Win7 or an upgrade. I did a fresh full install of Win7 and i am able to shut Utorrent down and kill the process in task manager.Then again, Win7 is a beta so maybe there are issues from install to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reded23 Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 Fresh install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeldon2 Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 i had the prob it sent me crazy!!!! i had kaspersky and thought it was that i did a fresh instal wen i installed kaspersly i didnt have the firewall turned on and just used windows firewall and at the mo it is working finenot working for me!!!! i have tried everything!!!!!!!! HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 completely uninstall kaspersky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midsomer Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 It's definitely a Windows 7 specific problem, but variable in the way it operates. I just started µTorrent, and it went to 150kps for about 2 minutes, then decided to go back to 10kps. Last night, though, it went for 6 hours at 150kps before deciding to revert to 10kps. Most commonly, it will stay at top speed for about 30-60 minutes before reverting to 10kps. I don't have kaspersky installed at all. So it seems as if something, somewhere is accumulating, and gradually reaches the stage where the reduction cuts in. There was never a problem with Vista, on exactly the same settings.I'm not sure if it's related, but quite often, when I try to shut down µTorrent and then restart it, Windows 7 reports "it seems like µTorrent is already running, but not responding. Please close all µTorrent processes and try again." ON searching task manager, µTorrent does appear there, but the "end process" command has no effect on it, so it means a complete reboot :-(.Incidentally, I note that some others are having the same problem at http://suprbay.org/showthread.php?s=c4762e9058fdf083d275346de129fffc&p=281740#post281740Any help would be much appreciated - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illinja Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 OK, so ive been folowing these windows 7 problem posts hoping to find the answer to this problem, After trying just about everything mentioned, Finally one thing worked!It was one of the following 2 things that affected the change:Run uTorrent with administration priveliges and as working on an older operating system "windows XP" MAKE SURE - pre-allocate all files is checked (under preferences>General)For some strange reason my box was unchecked, Im 99% sure i didnt do that. So this could be the cure...Restart utorrent.As the problem resides with uTorrent accumulating Cached data and not writing it to the disc. Possibly it is being blocked by win 7 somehow. So either of these to changes could affect disc use/permission. Let me know if these settings worked because im definetly a former sufferer of the 10kb/s max d/L after Cache write (disc overload) failure Issue. Now im getting constant full speed with cache constantly below 20mb. As it should be... everything else i tried did nothing but prolong the inevitable overload.Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reded23 Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Just tried this....no change unfortunatly...thanks anyways !Interestingly....If you quit uTorrent from within itself it still stays in task manager and you cant even force quit it. But if you go straight to task manager and force quit it does ! Maybe a clue ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 "If you quit uTorrent from within itself it still stays in task manager and you cant even force quit it. But if you go straight to task manager and force quit it does !"That's typically the sign of other software (firewall or indexer?) not letting uTorrent close its connections and exit properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midsomer Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Thanks illinja - seems to be working so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reded23 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 I've fixed it ! And its a little strange. Found the answer on another thread..... Preferences/Advanced/Disk Cache/ Turn off "Enable caching of disk writes"Doing this made the speed jump back up to normal 20x before.Out of curiosity I re-enabled this setting....but no slow down as I would have expected !Possibly disabling and re-enabling this setting has cleared some problem ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 No clue -- but disabling of Windows disk caching (since uTorrent is) works for some people under other OSes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reded23 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Update - Re enabling disk cache does slow it down again...my mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKaya Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 So I did what illinja said, but there wasn't much of a change. But I did what reded23 (I didn't re-enable it thought) said, and I'm 90kb/s+. Thank you to everyone here, my computer has been having some trouble and I thought I'll have to have it checked again. Damn 7, wasn't it supposed to make less trouble for you as Vista?!One more question... I tried uninstalling utorrent... and it 'uninstalled' in a second, no wizard, the same when I tried to download it again...And I just realized that this is a year old thread XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Did you also delete all of uTorrent's old settings .dat files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKaya Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 No, should I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 If you're wanting to test uTorrent with clean settings, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOW&FOREVER Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 How do i reduce the net.max_halfopen setting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 CTRL+P (Preferences), click Advanced on bottom left of that window, scroll down to net.max_halfopen value, changed the box at bottom, click SET to the right of the box, and then click OK at the bottom of the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marceloros Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 Something new on this topic?I tried the previous solutions and still download at 10-20K instead 180K in XP, and I just doubled my ISP bandwidth yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 If you're on a hostile Israeli ISP (and practically all there are!), then try 2nd and 3rd links in my signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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