iamkalive Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 hiI am using a MAC and runnig OS X 10.5.6, and uTorrent version 0.9.1.1.my brothers laptop (regular IBM), seems to work fine. he gets the max speeds that we should be getting.On my computer, I get super slow downloads of max 10kb total, but uploads seem ok, going at 50kb when speed restriction is removed. I will have about 4 torrents downloading, and each will be going at 1.2,1.3kb max..even sometimes it says downloading at .5kb and varying upto about 1.3kbs at the bottom, none of the torrents are showing any activity.Oddly enough, randomly (which is very rarely) i can get a good download speed of 200kbs on a torrent, and it will download right away.We are using the linksys WAG54GS, and my brother has updated all the firmware and done the tweaking necessary to get around the throttling of the lines by our ISP (Bell). But my laptop (OS X) just doesn't seem to give me good download speeds. I even installed uTorrent on my windows XP, while running integrated dual boot on Windows Parallels, and still the same slow, download speeds.I can download perfectly fine on my firefox an IE. but not torrents. could it be some settings in OSX, or on my uTorrent??I also notice that the light (bottom of the screen) is either yellow or red.Any information would help....Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hluver Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Try using a static 192.168.xxx.xxx address on your mac with the default gateway set.For me, this made a noticeable difference in the speeds - still not quite what you would expect from Windows, but not far off.Also, increase the connections in Preferences. I have Gloable limit of 1200, which is lots, but uTorrent never stumbles. Also, 300 for Per torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Use a current version please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtfathedza Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 "Try using a static 192.168.xxx.xxx address on your mac with the default gateway set."forgive my ignorance, but what do those things mean and how can i change them? I am new to the mac os... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezmac1964 Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 are you using this conection to use µtorrent...iif no get router booklety where is all info,, and I will help you (is fast only 10 minuts): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoOneButMe Posted July 29, 2009 Report Share Posted July 29, 2009 Update to 0.9.1.2.And forward your ports. The OS doesn't matter for this. It gets done the same way on windows and on mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuda Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 I have noticed MUCH slower download speeds after using Apple Software Update. I understand slower downloads while I'm using software update, but even when the download has completed, the speeds don't go back up again to what they used to be. They stay slow.Has anyone else seen this behavior? Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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