RustyNuts Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 How come i can sometimes download stuff at just over 1mb/s, but i cant upload faster than 10kb/s. I have a 10 meg cable broadband connection, the computer thats using Utorrent is connected direct to the modem and all ports are showing as OK. For instance today i downloads something that was 701mb in size, it took less that 25 minutes to fully download, yet its saying the ETA for full upload is 4 days running at 3kb/s. That cant be right cant it..Surely i must be able to seed faster... Any help would be great... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Firstly, you don't really have a 2-way 10 megabit/sec connection. Download may be sustainable...for awhile at least...at 10 megabit/sec but upload is FAR lower!Worse, you're sharing a 38 megabit/sec download channel of your ISP's with possibly 100+ other cablemodems. Doesn't take many downloading at max to overload it!So the cable company probably throttles it heavily. As a matter of fact, I'm almost certain of it:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=53050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNuts Posted July 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Oh i fully understand that my 10 meg connection is only the one way, i know that my up load speed according to speedtest is 500kb/s. So surely i should be able to upload faster than 10kb/s.Anyways thanks for the reply and thanks for the link ill have a read now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 A torrent with very many seeds and few peers won't need you to upload much if any. The few peers get download overloaded by all the seeds uploading to them! So your upload speed ends up very low. This happens often on bigger private trackers and plays havoc with people's ratios.Do note that SpeedTest is probably showing 500 kilobits/sec upload bandwidth, which may only be about 50 KiloBYTES/second usable upload speed in uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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