VulcanTourist Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 I've been trying to download a certain torrent, but there's only one person seeding it, and he seems to be crimping the hose for some reason I don't comprehend. The fastest transfer rate I get from him/her is 0.1KB/s, and that's only for at most two seconds at a time. The other peers are apparently being treated to the same thing; we're all just sitting like disciples twiddling our thumbs waiting hopefully for the next tiny packet of manna to fall from heaven.Should I be suspicious of this behavior? What do the flags, etc. tell me about the "motivation" of this seeder? Should I cancel it and walk away? uTorrent is telling me it will take 14 weeks to download this 700MB file at this rate... and that's assuming this one seeder doesn't leave the party early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted September 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 (The forum clipped my inserted screencap; the original shows the other columns. If they're useful I can try posting the clipped part separately.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 That seed is on uTorrent v2.0.3, which if it's REALLY unlucky...could be having uTP issues. Try disabling uTP and using just regular TCP to download from it.And/or...that seed may have really crap settings, such as upload speed max set to 1 KB/sec and trying to upload on 10+ torrents at once.That seed's ISP may be crippling its BitTorrent uploading as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted September 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Do I have to kill the connection and reestablish it before a change to uTP takes effect? I disabled uTP, but it's not having an immediate effect.I exited and restarted uTorrent with uTP disabled, and now that seed is back as a peer, with 0% of the file! His client was also now identified differently: as /2.0.3.0, rather than just 2.0.3. And now he's gone again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted September 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Now he's back once more, this time with uTorrent defined as 2.0.3, still snubbed, but now I'm getting a whopping 0.2KB/s out of him. I don't think uTP was much of an issue. It seems possible that he knows there's a problem and is tinkering to try and fix it. Hopefully he succeeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Does his ISP throttle/disrupt BitTorrent? (Google turn up anything on it?)This may seem silly, but if the seed is terribly slow...ban it. Better it give the trivial amount it would've given to you to someone else so they have MORE of a finished piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted September 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 No smoking gun for shaping/throttling. I see the point of your nefarious plan, there: let the other guy download it first (if), and then (hopefully) get it from him seeding it later. Might work.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 It's more like if they can only give so little, I do not want to be an additional burden on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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