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Why is uTorrent not making use of my available bandwidth?


Lee

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I have no limit of the bandwidth uTorrent can used on my connection, but it still decides to use 60kB/s out of a possible 220kB/s. There are enough seeders, that's not the problem.

uTorrent will sometimes download at 200kB/s, and then just go down to 100kB/s and then jump back up. It's a pain.

Anyone got a solution for this?

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Uh, the speeds you get on torrents vary. Just because you have a 2mbit connection doesn't mean on every torrent you're going to max that out. It depends on the speeds seeders/peers will give you, etc.

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Like I said in my first post. The seeders are not the problem. I can easily load up Azureus and get 220kB/s on the same torrent, but I can't with uTorrent. :rolleyes:

No need to roll your e-eyes on us. :evil: Perhaps some clients are not connecting properly to µTorrent, or maybe the problem is BMAC...either way, you need to give us more details to diagnose your problem. :)

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i have the exact same problem, utorrent doesn't make use of the available bandwidth i have. i have 300k dl and utorrent seems to peak at 160k and fluctuates down to 50k and back up. this has been tested with different torrents from different trackers all WELL SEEDED.

i think the problem is utorrent doesn't connect to all available peers even though i increased the max peers to 200, it still stays connected to 50-70 peers (out of 500+ possible) and hovers around there.

i think the problem is maybe because there is no 'minimum peers to stay connected' to option in utorrent so thats why its not forced to stay connected to a fixed amount of peers...

when i fire up bitcomet and start the same torrent my dl maxes out at 300k usually within the first minute or two with 190-200 peers connected

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How long did you let both clients run before deciding to stop? µTorrent connects to peers a litle slower to save on resources, so that might be where your speed problem is coming from.

ahh that is what it is. I'm used to waiting 5 minutes for AZ to pop up, but when it did stuff was going fast. This I start it and wait 5 minutes and then stuff starts rolling. Thanks for the info. I also agree though it feels like UT seems to lack on connecting with others. I understand your point chaos, but I still feel it doesnt connect to as many as it could be to get faster speeds.

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I've noticed uTorrent uploading a little irratically, ie 25-32KB/sec, rather than always saturated.. Im sure this is just a small issue, but i guess, after a long while the amount of unsaturated bandwidth does end up... I know uTorrent tried to keep 25% reserved (which is good for default settings at `0` default up and `0` default down (0 being unlimited). But I guess its just a simple case of when i want to max out my uploads, i don't want to allocate a 25% safe blanket... Just a thought, not a problem :D

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which is the one banned from many a priv tracker ;)

still? thought it'd be unbanned everywhere by now. oh well...anyway i just tested some more and found out that with increased upload slots the upload-speed does seem to get a little better. still with some nasty speed-drops tho :cry:

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same for me.

I have a 20Mbit download // 1Mbit upload.

I take a torrent file (Mr&Mrs Smith(DvDRip-Fr).torrent) available here

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the traker is mine ([link removed])

bit tornado let me download to 900 Ko/sec - 1.3 Mo/sec

here you can see the screenshot while downloading WoW patch

http://patch.wow.free.fr/Rapide.bmp

(1.66 Mo/sec)

with utorrent I never get over 60 Ko/sec

upload not limited

download not limited

port 16881 routed (and also tested without router)

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