Download /upload speed Problem

[BlitzKrieg42]

Hey guys,

My utorrent is acting up since yesterday and it's getting on my nerves. Whenever I limit my upload speed my download goes all the way down to 5-10KB/s , if I set my upload to unlimited , my download goes all the way up to 2 MB/s .Everything was running normal before yesterday and out of no where utorrent started messing up. I tried different versions of utorrent and turned off my firewall but nothing helped. I'm currently running ver. 2.2

By the way I'm connected directly to my modem so no router here.

Any help will be appreciated

Alex

[Ultima]

O_o

Does it matter at all what you set the upload rate limit to? Are you rate limiting overhead (Preferences > Bandwidth)?

[Switeck]

I'll need some more critical information before I can even form a guess...

1st link in my signature, last post.

[BlitzKrieg42]

@Ultima : utorrent didn't respect my upload limit when the problem occured. But then I rate limited the overhead and the uTP connection , and that fixed my upload limit but at the same time my download speed got much slower . Thanks for your reply by the way.

[Switeck]

Try limiting uTP but not limiting overheads.

It won't be perfect, but should be better than your stated problem.

[BlitzKrieg42]

@Switeck

Thanks for your reply. Everything is set up the way it is recommended in the setup guide. My firewall (all of them) is OFF. All download bars are green. I'm running windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. My ISP provider is called Alice (I live in Germany) . I used M-Lab tools to test my connection and to check if my ISP is limiting my download/upload no problems there. My connection type is DSL 16Mbps.

I'll be happy to give you more info if needed.

[BlitzKrieg42]

uTP limited , overhead not limited. Download speed a little better but still once I set my upload speed to unlimited my download just rockets up to 1.5 MB.

[Switeck]

"Everything is set up the way it is recommended in the setup guide."

So you're using either the 900 kilobit/sec or 1 megabit/second upload speed settings?

[BlitzKrieg42]

well last time I ran the test it gave me sth around 737 kb/s so I have it set to that upload speed.

[Switeck]

Which means you used either the 640 kbit/sec upload speed settings...or manually entered something?

Which/what exactly did you do?

[BlitzKrieg42]

I ran the connection test in utorrent and it set my upload speed to 737 kb/s .

In other words if I press ctrl+G it says "Yout upload speed : Current Settings 737.28 kb/s".

Here's a screenshot:

[Switeck]

The drop-down box is only reporting your upload speed. It is *NOT* changing your uTorrent settings, which are shown below that box.

Your uTorrent settings show values that do not match anything in the Speed Guide list in full...it's like you did a pick-and-choose from some pretty extreme settings. The closest upload speed to those settings is 1 mbit/sec -- though 15 torrents at once more closely matches 10 megabit/second upload speed. You've only got about 1/12th that much upload, so probably should reduce active downloads at once to 4-6 and total active torrents to 5-10.

Upload slots are probably best reduced to only 3 or 4 per torrent if you're typically running that many active torrents at once. If that's not enough, uTorrent will automatically use more if necessary.

[rafi]

The drop-down box is only reporting

They better change the wording .. instead of save & close -> apply settings & close.

[mcaspi]

Choose 1Mb in the drop-down box since this is what you have, click "Save & close" and see what you get.

[BlitzKrieg42]

Ok I did what Switeck told me . Now the tests in the setup guide report very slow download speed around 250 kBps !

[mcaspi]

The setup guide doesn't report download speed (oops mistake,haven't used it for a long time). You make a total mess out of the setup. Set your upload according to your line and check it for a few days.

[BlitzKrieg42]

Here's what I mean :

Also it 's not letting me change my upload speed settings to 1Mbitps . Each time I change it and save settings it just changes it back!

[mcaspi]

1. Activate the Setup Guide.

2. Select 1Mb/s from the drop-down box.

3. Click "Save & close".

4. Close the Setup Guide.

5. Open the Setup Guide.

6. Do you see your Upload Limit at 90kB/s?. If yes, enjoy uTorrents and don't mess with those setting coz they were wrong when you first started your post.

7. Don't click anything else and don't test anything.

8. Because of the very nature of BitTorrent, speeds are not guaranteed for any given torrent swarm. While you may get great speeds in one swarm, you might not in another. This is due to the fact that BitTorrent is a P2P protocol, so it depends on the upload speeds of the other peers you are connected to to generate your download speeds.

[BlitzKrieg42]

seems to be working fine now. I did what "mcaspi" told me. Thanks a lot for your help guys.