amitrix Posted June 8, 2009 Report Posted June 8, 2009 Hi all, first post =)Started downloading a public torrent today (1GB) but then noticed something weird.uTorrent said it was downloading at about 310kB/s which is my usual maximum speed (2.5mbit connection).But after a while I noticed the percentage on the download wasn't going as fast as it should.After few hours it was only 10% even though download speed still showed 310kB/s.Looked at the speed graph and it was about that for the last hour.At that speed it should have finished the download long ago.Restarted uTorrent and after few minutes speed was only 30kB/s as it was probably for the whole time....As I'm writing this message speed jumped back to 310kB/s and actual downloaded data still goes much slower than that.Something wrong with uTorrent or someone's faking an upload or something?EDIT: - Torrent reads 15GB wasted with 0 hash fails. - There are only 4 seeds and few peers, usually speed doesn't get that high with not many people. - When I started an http download (with IE) besides that, fake speed on the torrent went down. Seems like its really downloading something as the speed was shared with the http one.
DreadWingKnight Posted June 8, 2009 Report Posted June 8, 2009 Are you using remote desktop to control this machine?
Switeck Posted June 8, 2009 Report Posted June 8, 2009 Are you getting high hash fails or wasted data on the torrent?
amitrix Posted June 9, 2009 Author Report Posted June 9, 2009 On my own machine and uTorrent is the only internet-using application.Torrent says 15GB wasted (0 hashfails)Also this is uTorrent 1.8.2.--- See edit of the first message ----
Switeck Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 Start by blocking most of the peers/seeds. If you're only downloading from one, I doubt you'd have much wasted at all.
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