Upload/Download speed relationship

[thirteeburn]

First off, I do seed and often, so save the bitterness towards me for thinking I don't share. That being said, there are times that I want to download something large and for whatever reason, I have a far faster UPLOAD speed then I do DOWNLOAD speed and whenever I throttle back my upload speed (in order to speed up the download) the DOWNLOAD speed decreases drastically. My question is why and this isn't related to BIT TORRENT, but to UTORRENT ONLY! Also related, if it's possible, how do I throttle back my upload speeds to where they DON'T affect my download speeds in any way, shape or form.

The reason I specify this is only uTorrent related is because everytime I've found a question/answer posted regarding a particular question I have at that time, it's always couched in how it's related to BitTorrent and since I don't use it, the information does me little good.

I've never posted here before, so let me take the opportunity to say how satisfied with uTorrent. I recommend it highly to everyone who asks and suggest they go no further than uTorrent. While I've not tried BitTorrent, I find that most reviews concerning both clients to be pretty much dead on when it comes to small footprint, functionallity and overall ease of use and at this point, would never consider using anything else.

Lastly, thanks in advance for the effort spent in answering my question. Normally I do a pretty thorough search/check for questions/answers related to my given problem at that time, but in this case, time is something I have very little of and I need to find my answer as soon as possible so again, many thanks and huge kudos for the effort in answering my question.

[DreadWingKnight]

What version of uTorrent are you using?

How far back are you throttling your upload?

[Switeck]

2nd link in my signature shows settings far more conservative than uTorrent's built-in Speed Guide (CTRL+G)...but should cause less problems.

Your upload can also be "killed off" just by having too many active torrents and seed/peer connections at once. So if you're setting upload speed rather low relative to your download (such as 1/10th your download) then you probably need to reduce other settings as well (even beyond the appropriate upload speed settings in my guide!), such as max connections (global and per torrent), upload slots, AND total active torrents at once.

You can also try reducing the speeds of other torrents by lowering their priority to LOW, setting their upload slots to 1, and the most extreme...lowering their upload speed to 1 KB/sec each. Their speeds will likely suffer, but it should speed up your other torrent/s.

If you're on ComCast, you probably don't have more than 2 megabit/sec sustainable upload speed...or about 180-200 KiloBYTES/second usable upload speed in uTorrent.

uTorrent *IS* a BitTorrent client. THE BitTorrent client is a rebranded uTorrent clone.