randominterrupt Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 ugh.So, I had uTorrent installed, all settings on default, downloading a relatively large torrent. I can't quite remember if our line is 1meg or 2meg (our ISP upgrades us a lot!) but it's shared with two other users (one constantly on world of warcraft) through an SMC router. Speed tests i've done generally show about 750 kb/s for my computer alone. Anyway, I was getting download speeds ranging from around 20 kB/s up to 60/70 kB/s, and upload speeds from 5 - 15 kB/s. Me not knowing a whole lot about bittorrent, thought there was something wrong with my connection as it fluctuated so much, so went through these forums to try and tweak it a little.I realise now the fluctuations were normal, but ever since the tweaks my upload speeds have been around 20 kB/s, but my download speed is averaging about 3 kB/s. I've reset the settings, upgraded to v1.4, reset again, followed what's been said in the mini guide, but i still can't seem to fix my speeds. My port forwarding is all fine and dandy, I don't believe my ISP is interfering at all, but i just can't seem to get it working.Any help would be much appreciated.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randominterrupt Posted January 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 Sorry, just to be clear-● Not sure if i have a 1 or 2meg cable line, our isp upgrades a lot.● XP home operating system● no firewall. Had norton as a software firewall but I uninstalled that recently (it's a new computer, understandably has a few 30 day free offer blah blah blah)● No problem with portforwarding, that's all set up and working correctly.● not aware of any interferance from my ISP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randominterrupt Posted January 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 think i've solved my own problem.My initial speed burst of around 60 down and 12 up has left me with a 0.6 share ratio :sGah. Oh well, i'll do my best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Actually I doubt it's your share ratio that's the problem.It's probably some near-overload somewhere.Have you tried limiting pretty low the max number of connections, connections per torrent, and upload slots per torrent?Have you tried disabling DHT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randominterrupt Posted January 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 I've set the number of connections values to 50, 50, 5 and disabled DHT, my uploads are averaging 10 kB/s and my downloads 3 kB/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Try lowering upload slots to only 3.And test other torrents on different trackers just to rule out problems local only to your computer/router/modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randominterrupt Posted January 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Right. I've since done some testing n such. on a fresh torrent, i have a d/l of 80-100 kB/s, but an u/l of only 10-20 kB/s.Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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