Download meter shows higher dl's than uTorrent in Windows 7

[drew395]

uTorrent was working perfect for me in Windows XP with speeds ~1.9MB/s, but today I just installed Windows 7 Pro 32-bit (and re-installed uTorrent 2.0.3). I changed compatibility to Windows Vista and am running as administrator. I also have a DU meter to monitor all incoming and outgoing traffic.

uTorrent shows download speeds of say 137kB/s while my DU Meter shows 580kB/s (or 230kB/s and 710kB/s as another example). No other applications are running that would be downloading on top of uTorrent and when I close uTorrent, the DU Meter shows 0kB/s (as expected).

DU Meter is accurate when downloading files through a web browser or other program, so it must be uTorrent. It also did the same with another bittorrent client.

Any ideas on how to remedy this? I love uTorrent and want to remain using it. Thx.

[Switeck]

Is uTorrent uploading anything? Overheads?

[drew395]

Resolved. DU Meter was malfunctioning and providing kilobits as the downloaded number but showed kilobytes as the units. A different traffic counter confirmed this issue. Thanks for your reply. I can now resume my love affair with uTorrent and not worry.

[Switeck]

Do note that uTorrent can generate MAD levels of overheads with bad settings and buggy versions.

uTP on some instances could do 30-35% overheads.

So downloading at 100 KB/sec would also cause 30-35 KB/sec upload to get used as overheads!

Better settings can force that down to about 5%...still a little worse than 1 TCP connection from a website, but "good enough".