Dippeggs Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Just about every torrent I try, I can only connect to only 1 or 2. But there's always 100 or more in the swarm. I've also portforwarded mine, but utorrent still says it's not.Any way to fix this?I'm using Vista 32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 What is your setup? ISP -> modem -> router -> PC Please include both make/model and version if appropriate.Are you using any security software/firewall/AV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dippeggs Posted May 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 I have Cox (I don't know how to show details, there's bound to be a site or program)Toshiba Cable Modem pcx2200Linksys WRT54G2 v.1PC:Intel Core 2 duo 2.40 ghz2gb memory32 Vista8800gts 320mb (I don't think this is required, but whatever)Software:AVG 8.5Windows Firewall (Utorrent on ignore list, still doesn't work. So I turned it off, still no change) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Cox Cable I'm pretty sure still throttles and/or disrupts BitTorrent traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dippeggs Posted May 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Really? I did not know that. That's a bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Same thing happen on the test torrents mentioned in 1st link of my signature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dippeggs Posted May 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 SwiteckI took both test athttp://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.phpIt said on both that I wasn't being stopped.I'll try those other thing on your first link.Ok, I think it's just a problem with the torrents.I tried the Open Office torrent and got 650kb/s.I guess the only question I have now is why it connects to seeds so slowly. it says there's 65 in swarm, but it only connected to 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Even if you AREN'T firewalled in uTorrent, you almost certainly won't connect to more than 80% of seeds/peers on a torrent. If it claims to have 80 seeds, don't expect to connect to more than 60. This is partially due to double-counting, and because seeds leave faster than the tracker (or your client) takes account for.If you're firewalled...this means the probably 50-80% of others that are firewalled are unreachable. So that 80 seeds means...good luck reaching over 10!Get unfirewalled in uTorrent and make sure you don't have uTorrent's settings too high. Speed tests report your burst speeds, not the sustained speeds uTorrent has to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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