krazytime74 Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 I'm having MAJOR speed issues when DLing torrents. I get speeds up to 67 kbs then they drop down to literally nothing within the same DL period. I've tried all the fix-its listed on the forum, and nothing seems to work. I HAD utorrent 2.0, then read that 1.8.5 has better results, so I switched back to that. STILL having the same issues. I have a dedicated 768 connection and still get up-and-down speeds. HELP!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Try the current uTorrent v2.0 build.In advanced settings, try setting bt.tcp_rate_control to FALSE and net.calc_overhead to FALSE.If that doesn't seem to help, under BitTorrent uncheck Bandwidth Management (which disables uTP).Verify that you really do have 768 kilobit/sec UPLOAD bandwidth...because quite likely you have less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puscifer Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Do you recommend this for all users Switeck? I am having issues myself, which i really don't understand. Port is open, the new Bandwidth test feature (altho buggy as hell, not connecting half the time etc) shows that my download and upload are very good, d/l going at about 6mb at this particular time and faster offpeak, yet I am trying to download latest 24 ep, which has like 35682351951 seeders ffs and I can't get a speed over 20kb/s on this..wtf is wrong with uTorrent these days? Bring back the good 'ole days when this program actually worked properly =[Perhaps my isp is throttling, not sure as my upload and d/l seem to be just about at maximum right now according to the speedtest. I know BT Broadband do throttle, but I've been able to run downloads before at this time at very good speeds, so there is a big inconsistency here =/I do get a jump when i carry out the settings you speak of Switeck, but to about 50-80k/s, so there must be some settings issues here. What i don't understand is why sometimes I will get great speeds and then lately horrible ones without any settings changing? The default net.max_halfopen is 400, should i alter this too in some way? How can i maximise the speeds here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazytime74 Posted March 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 When I had 2.0 I tried all the different settings as suggested and didn't get anything better. I know my upload speed is way lower, but my DL speed is 768 or thereabouts. The Bandwidth Management did nothing, neither did the other suggestions. I saw more than one post in the forum stating that 1.8.5 is the better program. Should I really switch back?Thanks for the reply, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Puscifer, your ISP (BT Central ADSL in the UK, or a subsidiary of them) throttles to heck at least during peak evening hours:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=58929Lower net.max_halfopen to 8, at least it shouldn't hurt...krazytime74, if you disabled Bandwidth Management, bt.tcp_rate_control, and net.calc_overhead ...and still didn't see an improvement after restarting your torrents, then uT v1.8.5 won't be any better.Please list your other uTorrent settings, since they may be partially to blame for your problems.Speed Guide CTRL+G ones plus changed advanced settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puscifer Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Ok, i set halfopen to 8, although nothing seemed to change. As for the BT thing, what i'm getting is that i'm permanently stuck on under 50k/s with BT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 50 KB/sec upload or download or both?BT Central probably doesn't throttle much between 1-8 am.Can you use uTorrent's scheduler to run it during those hours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dworf Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 BT Central probably doesn't throttle much between 1-8 am.Can you use uTorrent's scheduler to run it during those hours?Surely this is the beginning of the end for bittorrent protocol if the best suggestion for ISP throttling is to only use it at night? What happens if they start throttling 24/7?The best solution I have found so far that works is a macro script that closes down and restarts utorrent (to schedule switching to a different random port), but I have to have it set to do this every 15min during the day to bypass the ISP throttling (V**gin). (step-by-step instructions here)As soon as any client implements a solution I'll use it, but at the moment torrenting is becoming my second choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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