100,000's in swarm but only connecting to 10

[ftw]

Hi

Both the seeds and the peers have 100,000's in the swarm but I'm only connecting to 4/10 Seeds and 4/23 Peers. Download speed 3.3 kB/s

I'm using utorrent 2 and port forwarding appears to be working correctly.

I tried another file that again has 100,000's in both the seeds and peers swarm and I'm only connecting to 3/8 seeds 19/72 peers. 88 kB/s

My downloading speed is 3.7 and upload .75

I always thought the more seeds/peers the faster the download.

[DreadWingKnight]

If there are udp trackers, the numbers are over-inflated.

You don't need to connect to many to get good download speeds. Just set your settings right.

[ftw]

Thanks for that DreadWingKnight - I suppose that means more reading to make sure the settings are right because this is so slow.

[donjoe]

Same problem here. And BTW, I expect upgrade installs to not ruin my settings so I have to go read who-knows-what just to get the thing working normally again.

[Switeck]

1st (slow speed section especially) and 2nd links in my signature.

Adding more connections when you're already having problems generally just makes things worse.

[donjoe]

Turns out it was something about the torrent or swarm itself. It just took longer to get up to high speeds. It's working fine now.

I tweaked my settings and reached what I think is something close to a sweet spot:

- unlimited up/down bandwidth (can't cap this without losing the benefit of LAN-like national speeds I get when a peer happens to be another client of the same ISP - I'm talking 1-2 MB/s here)

- 256 max. total, 128 per-torrent connections

- 16 upload slots

[rnr]

You can exclude local from the limit donjoe.

[DreadWingKnight]

That probably doesn't work for his internet provider because they don't forward the multicast for local peer discovery.