Camswe Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Hello, i have recently gotten a new computer and just installed Utorrent which i am familiar with.So i am currently downloading a 9GB file..i started about about 10pm EST last night, for about 10 hours it ran at 80-90kBs woke up this morning checked it and it was 20kBs...i am running vista and i have looked up about 50 guides on the internet i found one that worked well that had me change my "advanced" settings in the preferences section. That worked great made me jump to 130-140kBs after about one hour im back down to 20...i can not find anything that will boost me up toa reasonable speed for more than an hour...and now i cant find anything that will work to any degree... my Download is at 74% after 17 hours and the last 26% is estimated to take another 23 hours...i could really use some help guys, please and thanks.i have heard that maybe older versions can be altered to speed up fast on vista?i will check back often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 So you royally screwed up uTorrent's settings...and now it's slow?We know nothing about what settings you have now.List the Speed Guide (CTRL+G) settings.How fast is your line, both down and up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camswe Posted November 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Well i have reset all of the settings in the "Advanced tab"and now my download speed is about 6kBs....and i do not think that 6kBs is very good for my speed test....almost 80% now and has taken one day, and 3 days predicted for the last 20%Max upload rate: 10Global Max Connections: 600Number Of Connected Peers per torrent: 100Upload slots per torrent: 6Port: 17120 (Verified open)Disabled UPnP and NAT-PMP Port mapping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Bad ISP, unfortunately like so many others...http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs#United_States_of_AmericaUpload slots needs to be low enough that *EACH* can get 3 KB/sec upload speed.Global and per-torrent max connections also needs to be low.(Even lower if you're having problems!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camswe Posted November 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Ah, so my ISP is why i can get up to about 130kBs but it only lasts a very short while...ok i set those things lower about the same 6-8kBs42 seeds of 105103 peers of 2073yeeshso give it to me straight doc, not much hope for someone like me to torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Your ISP may not throttle BitTorrent downloads as much as uploads.Try this to determine if your ISP is throttling at this moment:http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/bttest.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camswe Posted November 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Unfortunately it wont let me try that test, because of my lack of a java environment, which i downloaded twice...maybe its not compatible with vista?maybe there is another test i can try?by the way is windows 7 better for torrenting on than perhaps vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Neither should cause a problem for torrenting *UNLESS* you have faulty drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camswe Posted November 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Hmm, concidering i just got this computer about 8 days ago brand new i dont think there could be faulty drivers, although im not so sure i trust dell that much to have them not make mistakes.but i also have a free copy of windows 7 at my disposal ill be sending out for it soon.i seem to have lots of speed issues on vista i didn't have with xp, speaking of, I'm not running at 6kBs right now, now my usual 20kBs I'm running at about 55 from 6 a few minutes ago, and i did absolutely nothing i was just surfing the web and it jumped that much and its staying there for now, my speeds are very inconsistent, and i have no clue why...*5 minutes after typing that its back to 12kBs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Try the 512 kilobit/sec upload settings from 2nd link in my signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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