WillCar Posted May 1, 2010 Report Share Posted May 1, 2010 Hey everyone, Ive been using Utorrent for a couple of years now and never had a problem, always a 200-500kb/s until recently.For the past few weeks its been going 0-50kb/s hovering more towards the ~0 mark.I just updated today to and downloaded the new version of UTorrent and was trying to work out what was wrong and found an 'O' between the 'D' and 'T' on my status bar at the bottom.I found on the net its called overhead, although what it means alludes me, wikipedia and info on the forum is all double dutch to me... can anyone help explain what this is to someone who is not a computer genius? It seems its slowing everyone's download speed considerably... maybe its time to move onto another download engine..Please helpWill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 1, 2010 Report Share Posted May 1, 2010 In the F1 help file->glossaryOverhead definitionAdditional data used and required for communication and coordination between sender and receiver that is not part of the payload data actually being transferred.Payload definitionThe actual data being transferred from sender to receiver, not counting overhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedawn Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 How do I remove it from the status bar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 ah... a good question. you don't... you can request a new feature for the next release .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedawn Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 That is annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 why ? just one more (important) info # .. you get used to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 If you turn off net.calc_overhead, it does hide it. But it's actually very useful info, since it shows you the overhead you're generating while downloading and uploading. This means you can see the -real- amount of bandwidth you're using, not just the payload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 When was the last time (version) you turned it off and it did hide the OH graph + O: ? I agree, it should have... maybe in 2.02... http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/958/53849044.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WLS Posted May 4, 2010 Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 Overhead is something added to version 2.0.1 to generate forum questions as it was getting slow here. JK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 4, 2010 Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 they should put that "definition" into the glossary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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