krayziefox Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 Hey guys, I'm new here and I need some professional guidance.I recently moved across the country and at the time I didn't have enough portable storage space to take all of my music with me, so I left 110 GB of music on my parents' computer and I am now trying to transfer all of it over to my external HDD using uTorrent 2.0.4I found a few different tutorials for increasing download speeds but they aren't really doing much for me cuz there's only 1 seed for my download.. and that's my parents' computer. So it's setup as a direct transfer from one computer to the other (1 seed, 1 peer) and I can only download as fast as the other computer can upload.So currently my download (and upload on parents' computer) speed is 115 kb/s. Not bad, but I know I can get this to go faster, and I think my limiting factor is the upload speed of my parents' machine. Here are some more details about each computer.Parents'WinXP SP3Mediacom Cable (mchsi)6 Mb/s Download850 kb/s UploadLinksys WRT54G2 routerMineWinXP SP3Comcast Cable16 Mb/s Download7 Mb/s UploadLinksys WRT120N routerPort forwarding is setup and UPnP disabled on both, however for some reason my green connection icon goes away and turns yellow after a bit. The icon on the uploading computer stays green all the time. I followed the instructions found HERE to optimize my download speeds but none of these settings made a bit of difference. I started at 115 kb/s and I'm still at 115 kb/s after trying to change every setting I've found on the internet.Please help if you can, and sorry for the long post. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krayziefox Posted September 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 I thought I posted this in Speed Problems.. not sure how it ended up in General. Sorry guys. Move thread if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 You can't get any better because the uploading connection can't give any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krayziefox Posted September 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 So 150 kb/s upload is as fast as I can get to the 850 kb/s maximum? I was hoping to get at least close to 300-400 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 You're getting your units messed up.uTorrent displays in *byte/secthe speedtest sites give you *bit/sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krayziefox Posted September 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 Ahhh.. it all makes sense now. I definitely didn't see the kB on uTorrent, I automatically assumed it was kb and started working from there. So the 115 kB/s is actually beyond the speedtest upload speed of 850 kb/s.. it's more like 920 right? 1 B = 8 b correct.Thanks for your help DreadWingKnight.. looks like there is nothing I can do after all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 give or take, yes you have the conversion right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 As for your internet connection, read this:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=520312#p520312 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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