Alexstarfire Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 OK, so at the bottom of uTorrent it lists several things: DHT, network status, download stats and upload stats. I know that D stands for download, U for upload, and T for transfer, but wtf does O stand for? Overhead? I only ask because when I limit my upload connection to 100 KB/s my Upload speed goes to 20 KB/s or so because the O is around 80 KB/s all the time. Seems like a lot of overhead, if that's the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Yes, O = Overhead.Downloading quickly causes lots of upload overheads, because of how TCP/IP networking works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WLS Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Yes, O = Overhead.Downloading quickly causes lots of upload overheads, because of how TCP/IP networking works.That is interesting. I usually reduce my upload speed to around 5kB/s when downloading. After upgrading to uTorrent 2.0.1 last night, and starting my first download today, I noticed a ton of upload overhead.http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7077/screenshottorrent201.pngWhen I increased my upload speed, the upload overhead went down (of course along with download speed)http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5821/screenshottorrent2011.pngHowever when seeding only, the overhead was minimal, and now I'm not worried about being able to contribute back to the community. Edit:After setting net.calc_overhead to false, as suggested elsewhere, my upload speed returned to normal. Still a lot of overhead being shown. I can see why you were against that change. http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2541/screenshottorrent2012.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 "reducing upload speed reduces download speed"http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=73348 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 By disabling net.calc_overhead, all you're doing is hiding the display of overhead. It's still there. What you need to do is raise your upload cap to take the overhead into account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WLS Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 I don't know if it is because I'm using uTorrent in Wine on Linux, but disabling net.calc.overhead didn't hide the display of the overhead.But ok, raising the upload cap lowers the download speed, so I guess I'll have to live with it taking longer to complete the downloading and seeding process, and be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 Hmm. You're right. It doesn't hide the display, but it does still disable the use of overheads in limiting (e.g. it becomes purely for informational purposes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WLS Posted May 4, 2010 Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 That's nice to know. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hgardman1 Posted May 4, 2010 Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 I recently installed the utorrent for usb...the advertisment says:All application files (µTorrent executable, configuration files, temporary files) and file downloads (torrents, data files) stay on the USB, not on the host PC. In addition, there are no leftovers on the local hard drive or the Windows registry. My question is how do I confirm that this product is effective or working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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