tokm-nikita Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Often I am uploading or downloading, and nothing happens between me and the other guy. Is there a way to force my uTorrent to upload (ingeneral or to a specific peer), or to force another peer to download to me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 I can set uTorrent up to upload only to a single ip -- block all the others using ipfilter.dat! However this STILL requires my line to upload properly, which if yours cannot...doesn't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokm-nikita Posted July 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 Do I uderstand correctly from your reply that the answer to my question is "no" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 That would be the case if your ISP SERIOUSLY disrupts and throttles BitTorrent traffic...otherwise it is possible.If the other side doesn't want to upload to you, you can't force them to. Their settings may be such that they're only uploading to 1 peer at a time...but connected to 100's of peers. (This is QUITE LIKELY if they're running lots of busy torrents at once!)Their global upload speed max may be set to 1 KiloBYTE/second...so even if you DID download from them, it'd be worthlessly slow. Their ISP may be disrupting/throttling THEIR upload down to nothing even if they intend and TRY to upload faster.Ignoring all that for a bit, it's possible to selectively block ips using ipfilter.dat...you just have to copy and paste them in, and tell uTorrent to reload the new edited ipfilter.dat. Doing that, you could block all the peers but 1 but keep all the seeds connected. Or the reverse...or something stranger still! Maybe you want to block a whole country's ip ranges...it's possible to do, but you have to find a list of that country's ip ranges.Another thing...you can set upload speed, upload slots, and PRIORITY for each torrent. So if it's just 1 torrent that you want to favor...put it to HIGH priority and all the others to LOW, maybe even reduce global upload slots per torrent to 1 but specifically set that 1 torrent's upload slots to 9. (I'm assuming you have a fast enough connection so EACH upload slot can still get 3+ KB/sec upload speed.) Setting upload speed max limits for torrents is a last resort, since if you did it for all torrents and many ran slowly...you could fail to reach your global max upload speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokm-nikita Posted July 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 I see. Where can I find an example of how to make such a ipfilter.dat file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 20, 2009 Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 The ips you don't want blocked leave as "holes" in the ip ranges.So if you don't want 66.77.88.99 blocked but want all the rest of 66.x.x.x blocked, do this in ipfilter.dat:66.0.0.0-66.77.88.9866.77.88.100-66.255.255.255 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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