20mb Connenction

[iNvidious01]

I would appreciate any advice.

* 20mb download speed and 0.7mb upload

* ISP doesnt throttle traffic

* Ports forwarded

* uTorrent options customised

* Windows tweaked for speed

If if i download a file off megaupload i get a consistent rate of 2000kb/s, rising to 2400 sometimes using a download manager. My connection is wireless N wi-fi.

When i was downloading a well seeded file with 40 seeds connected i only got 180-250kb/s.

Previously, the highest my torrent speed spiked was 800kb/s. How can i keep that speed up?

And what should my optimal uTorrent settings be? e.g. max connections, upload slots.

[hermanm]

There's not much you can do. Unless you can connect to peers that have high speed uploads, you're not going to realize speeds to match your megaupload rates.

[Ultima]

xx/768k or xx/640k in the Speed Guide.

[Switeck]

640 or 700 kilobit/sec from my speed chart (2nd link in my signature.)

(These settings are similar but not quite identical to the ones found in uTorrent's Speed Guide CTRL+G.)

[gigabitFTW]

Join a private tracker to get better speeds. Most users use seedboxes and dedicated servers to upload content, unlike home users with their limited upload bandwidth. I easily hit 2.4MB/sec download from home and have achieved over 50MB/sec download many times on my dedicated servers.

[Switeck]

With a 20/0.7 DL/UL line, you can still easily run 3-5 torrents at once while still uploading a decent amount (13 KB/sec) to each. So if one torrent's slow, start 2-4 more!

And when you're not downloading, you can continue seeding any torrent that's lacking seeds. You'll probably end up with >1:1 ratio with such a line unless you're aggressively downloading stuff daily.

Private torrents are NOT the solution to a single slow torrent.