Stack Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 No matter how many seeds or peers there are (have got torrents of 500+ seeds, 1000+ peers) I can only seem to connect to One Seed. This is of course causing me download speeds of lower than 10kB/s.This only happened recently. I have always had great speeds downloading using uTorrent and have since uninstalled uTorrent and removed all settings before re-installing. However, the same problem remains.What can I do? I have posted everywhere and searched everywhere but no joy. I have Forced Outgoing Protocol Encryption and Allowing Legacy Connections but this had made no difference. Also, my ISP is a good one with no torrent-related issues.Thanks for your help - I need it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 The number of seeds is ultimately meaningless as to the speeds at which you can download. Uploading wrong for your connection (usually caused by following the youtube setup guides) is the biggest cause of slow speeds, and next is being firewalled.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stack Posted January 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 I set my upload speed to max of 1kB/s but it made no difference. I also know the firewall is not an issue for this.It is because I cannot connect to more than 1 seed - this is the issue of my slow speeds. I can download HTTP files at usual speed of 1MB/s and if I could get connected to a good group of seeds and peers I know my torrent speeds will get back to normal. I think there is something almost literally blocking me from connecting to more than 1 seed or peer at a time. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Then you didn't follow the troubleshooting guide properly.Provide the information requested of you by the troubleshooting thread.THE NUMBER OF SEEDS DOES NOT DICTATE YOUR SPEED ON A TORRENT. PERIOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stack Posted January 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 In my first post I mentioned that this only happened recently. I have downloaded torrents fine for years and have always been able to connect to a healthy number of seeds and peers. I have been through the troubleshooting guide already with no luck.I don't get how you can say the number of seeds does not dictate speed when if you are connected to only one seed it's clearly obvious you will get slower downloads than if you were connected to say 100 seeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 I have been through the troubleshooting guide already with no luck.Then provide the information the guide requests.I don't get how you can say the number of seeds does not dictate speed when if you are connected to only one seed it's clearly obvious you will get slower downloads than if you were connected to say 100 seeds.Because you don't maintain trading relationships with seeds. I've gotten better speeds from 0-seed torrents than I have from ones with a hundred seeds BECAUSE of those trading relationships.I can say the number of seeds doesn't dictate speed because I've been dealing with that side of torrenting for over FOUR YEARS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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