diadara Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Since the last update, uTorrent has been nothing but trouble for me and my family. I've spent countless hours with my ISP support and sent them at least 20 emails about our connection speed. It seemed to change from 4 Mbit/s to our normal 12 Mbit/s rapidly, sometimes it was a matter of minutes, sometimes hours. Finally I located the problem. uTorrent lowered the speed in our entire household! And this without anyone of us downloading anything, only seeding. Strange thing was, our upload speed was fine during this time of trouble.I tested it over and over again, and it gave the same result. No one downloading nor seeding, but had uTorrent running = down to 4 Mbit. Closed uTorrent = our speed went up to 12 Mbit. How can a program just by being started, lower the broadband speed by 60%?Luckily I managed to stop the ISP technicians from coming here to investigate, or I would have been forced to pay for their visit. Now that would have been embarrasing.Sorry if this has been brought up before, I was just so upset I had to post asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 How can a program just by being started, lower the broadband speed by 60%?By being set up grossly improperly, such as by following one of the youtube setup guides.Follow http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Some ISP throttling/disruption methods blanket-slow the WHOLE connection when BitTorrent traffic is detected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diadara Posted August 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Running BitTorrent untouched on all PC's, no setups changed, and our speed is fine. If a whole guide with setups is needed to make uTorrent run properly, then it's not a user friendly program. Alas, I wont use it anymore. Not a flame, only my personal opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 That still doesn't answer what setup you had followed on uTorrent initially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diadara Posted August 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Changed to correct upload speed and limited the amount of active torrents. Also used DHT, nothing more. For a layman this should be enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Perhaps, but running uTorrent on multiple computers in the same house with the same settings on the same connection multiplies the strain on the networking hardware in direct proportion to the number of computers torrenting.Additionally, substandard networking hardware or software in place can compound problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diadara Posted August 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Not arguing with you there, but daughter was using uTorrent while I was using BitTorrent. I noticed the change on my PC before I changed it on hers. I couldn't even browse the web. Anyway, I'm still convinced that uTorrent is more suitable for advanced users, unless the programmers can come up with a step-by-step, GUI guide. That would be awesome, been using it since the first release.-Conspiracy theory just hit me, Swedish government suing owners of Pirate Bay by the new IPRED-law, ISP choking my d/l while using uTorrent... hmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 http://utorrent.com/documentation/connection-setup is the basic setup guide.The one I linked above is the advanced troubleshooting guide.The speed guide in ctrl+g is a bit over-aggressive on connection numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sradz113 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 uhhhhhhhhhhh didn't bittorrent buy utorrent? they're like identical now? anyway, yea i have some similar troubles, but it isn't the programs fault it's my damn ISP throttling my connection whenever I start takin care of business in a fast manner hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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