increase seeder connections

[richtertheo]

utorrent is working fine,

but very often I load torents with for example around 100 seeders, but utorrent connects only to around 5.

connected peers are ok, near the configuration I made. Network is ok for sure, perfect NAT. max global connections settingis 500.

How can I get more seeders connected, or is this no problem?

edit: changed picture, just rightclick and show picture

[richtertheo]

thanks, but this increases only the peers not the seeders, connections per torrent is still set to 150

[dAbReAkA]

i deleted my post.. i thought that u couldn't connect to more than 5 peers.. the screenshot didn't load the first time.. u'd better make a clearer one.. they flags are not clearly visible

[td4guy]

There is no problem there. Leeches outnumber seeds. The tracker will give you maybe 200 peers randomly, and there is a much higher chance that you will connect to a leech than a seed. That is why you don't have very many seed connections.

[1c3d0g]

1.) Please blur out the IP's... :/

2.) Why does everyone think that connecting to more seeds means more speed? It's not.

[dAbReAkA]

connecting to more peers means higher chance of getting higher speed.. u may connect to 20 more which are uploading nothing..

[1c3d0g]

Yes, connecting to more peers can give you higher speeds, but you don't need to be connected to many seeds to get good speeds. :/

[Martin Levac]

Richter, I'll explain how BitTorrent works.

Your upload speed is divided by the number of connections.

Disconnect inactive peers after 300 seconds: True.

Optimistically unchoke one peer every 10-30 seconds: True.

ML

[Browndog]

Richter, I'll explain how BitTorrent works.

Your upload speed is divided by the number of connections.

Disconnect inactive peers after 300 seconds: True.

Optimistically unchoke one peer every 10-30 seconds: True.

ML

Hi

Sorry to butt in. I'm a noob

When you say this do you mean you can change this in your settings?

[Firon]

It means press Ctrl G, use the Speed Guide, and don't change things in the options which you don't understand.

[chaosblade]

I think its related to the way uTorrent discovers seeds.

So it gets, lets say, 100 peers (the limit chosen, lets say), and start connecting to them randomly\in-order\whatever. Now, it will keep the peers connected, and if it finds out one of them is 100% done, it will classify it as a seed. So its kinda about randomness finding more seeds then peers in the entire lump of peers obtained.

[Ucef]

more leechers increase ur upload speed, if they r leeching ur seeding torrents

[Martin Levac]

Your upload speed is divided by the number of connections.

The more connections you have, the less you upload to each connection over time. Apply this rule to every peer you are connected to and you will understand why it's a bad idea to have too many connections.

Disconnect inactive peers after 300 seconds: True.

You can disable it. You cannot reduce the interval, 300 seconds is the minimum. You can increase the interval but I suggest 600 seconds maximum.

Optimistically unchoke one peer every 10-30 seconds: True.

This is automatic and you cannot turn it off or change it. The minimum is normally 10 seconds and the maximum is normally 30 seconds.

Instead of thinking about what they can do for you, think about what you can do for them. The more you do for them, the more they will do for you in return. By reducing the number of connections, you do more for them because you upload more to each connection over time. I suggest you have as many connections as you have upload speed in kBytes/s. For example, 30kBytes/s = 30 connections (1kBytes/s per connection over time). Divide your upload speed by 5kBytes/s for upload slots. For example, 30kBytes/s / 5kBytes/s = 6 upload slots.

ML