Sick of banning American leechers!

[synce]

A lot of what I download originates in Japan so usually there are Japanese and some Americans in the swarm. Almost always I have to ban American peers because when I look at their down/up ratio it's like 50:1. Is this a cultural thing or what? I know it's not an issue with private trackers but the public ones are ridiculous. The most annoying part is that I'll ban a few people, and then check back later to see that they're back with a new IP, usually scrambled. So then I ban again, and they come back, again... Is this a uTorrent feature or what? I'm about ready to switch clients.

[DreadWingKnight]

You do realize that just because they aren't uploading to you, it doesn't mean they aren't uploading at all right?

Or were you just so self-centered and arrogant that you forgot?

[Zardan]

You can ban ipranges with ipfilter. To enable it go to Preferences > Advanced and set ipfilter.enable to true.

Create a file named ipfilter.dat in %AppData%\uTorrent and the ip ranges you have issues with to block leechers, or you can probly find a ipfilter file on google that will block all americans.

[DreadWingKnight]

Just don't blame us if your speeds plummet.

[Switeck]

Your own uTorrent settings can cause uTorrent to upload far more than it downloads, at least from most peers.

[Lord Alderaan]

You can't know what the whole swarm does from just your point of view. Micromanaging BitTorrent (banning individual peers/clients/ipranges) does more harm then good.

In fact, imho it is only micromanagers (and malicious poisoners) that should be banned from the swarm

[DreadWingKnight]

The amusing part for me is that the offending micromanager is on comcast.

He's an american himself.