Speed limit?

[jarekexe666]

Can anyone tell me how to turn off that limit shown as a green dotted line?

I've 4Mbit DL and 0.5Mbit UL

With previous versions of uTorrent, I didn't have any problems reaching 400kB DL, and now something is limitng me to 100kB no matter what I do.

[GTHK]

Green dotted line is overhead, not a limit. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=480554#p480554 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992

[jarekexe666]

My english is not that good. Can you explain to me what exactly is "traffic overhead" ? How does it work?

Anyone?

[rafi]

F1 (help) and search for "overhead". See also in my sig.

[jarekexe666]

I've seen that. I've follewed below instructions:

B. For improving low speed issues:

[1] Make sure your upload speed limit is correctly set as follows:

1a. If you have "Banwidth->Apply rate limit to transport overhead" enabled (recommended) -

set the upload limit to about 80-95% of your connection's maximum upload-speed/cap.

This is required so to accommodate for 1) + 2) above, limiting the total of

upload-payload + download-acks-overhead

You can test your connection speed @ http://speedtest.net or use the options->setup-guide (control-G)

1b. If you have "Bandwidth->Apply rate limit to transport overhead" - disabled -

set the upload limit to 70-80% of your connection's maximum upload-speed/cap.

This is recommended in this case, but not required, though.

You can set it to as low as the actual seeding-payload speed you like to have.

In both cases you can use a different upload speed limit setting at pref->bandwidth->"Alternate upload rate when not downloading"

Test your download speed again now with this (test torrent...) This step should be enough for most users that upgrade!

[2] Settings that might improve (reduce) your overhead:

2a. Set pref->advanced->net.uTP_dynamic_packet_size =false

2b. Set pref->advanced->net.utp_initial_packet_size = 8 (use MTU size)

[3] Set pref.->advanced->bt.tcp_rate_control = false

[4] If you want to use your full line speed capacity for download, but your connection upload:download-speeds/cap ratio is bad (lower than 1:10, such as an ADSL 10 Mbits/sec download :and: 800 Kbits/sec upload) you can reduce the use of uTP (and the larger overhead caused by it):

4a. Support only uTP incoming connections by setting pref->advanced->bt.transp_disposition = 29

4b. Alternatively - disable the use of uTP by pref->BitTorrent->Enable Bandwidth Management = unchecked

And still it limits me to 100kB/sec

[DreadWingKnight]

And a screenshot of your settings from preferences - bandwidth please

[jarekexe666]

[DreadWingKnight]

Did you set a download limit on that individual torrent that you've forgotten about?

Why are you running with a download limit?

[jarekexe666]

No, checked that already. Besides it's the same even if Im downloading couple of torrents at the same time. DLs sum up to 100kB/sec.

Why limit? No reason I believe, I've tried with unlimited too.

[DreadWingKnight]

Speedtest results from speedtest.net please.

[jarekexe666]

Hm, somewhat lowish. I know for a fact, that I have 4MB/sec and my DL speed exceeds 400kB/sec while downloading. Is it something to do with 1024 Bytes rounding?>

Also, upload in Torrent would reach 50kB/sec for sure.

[rafi]

make sure your scheduler is off, and there is no speed limit there too...

[jarekexe666]

Schedulered disabled. Never used it.

Edit:

Hm, it looks different now:

Limit went up to 112kB? But it's not as regular as before.

[rafi]

try adding/testing on a "fresh" torrent (ubuntu in my sig)

[jarekexe666]

Didn't work out. However limit changed to 109kB/sec :|

Noone?

So I have to switch to another Torrent Client? Sad...

[Greg Hazel]

Can you try disabling "Enable bandwidth management [uTP]" in the BitTorrent Preferences page? Let us know if that helps, re-enable it if it does not.

[jarekexe666]

Checked. There was no reaction. Still 100kB/sec.

[Greg Hazel]

Which ISP?

[jarekexe666]

Polish, Netia. One of the best in the country. I don't suppose ISP is a problem... but who knows? Any way to check it?

PS. Just tried another client. Bittorrent:

I guess I'll just stick to Bit in that case :|

[rafi]

Call and ask them ?... I would try a fresh "install" of uTorrent... revert/'clean' it up to defaults...

[jarekexe666]

Well, since another client works fine, it's definitely not a problem of ISP.

I've tried uninstalling, deleting remaining folder and installing fresh copy. Also tried older versions. Nothing worked.

[Greg Hazel]

Well, BitTorrent is just an older version of uTorrent...

Which version of BitTorrent are you using, and which versions of uTorrent have you tried?

[jarekexe666]

uTorrent 2.0.2 and 1.8.5

BitTorrent 6.4

[Switeck]

Does lowering upload speed max from 40 to 30 KiloBYTES/second seem to help?

[rafi]

It shouldn't make a difference, since he has plenty of overhead slack within the 40K for up to ~800K download plus 40K is bellow his ISP cap. ...