arconreef Posted November 11, 2010 Report Posted November 11, 2010 The torrent I am downloading was at about 25kb/s until I started a second torrent. At that point it began downloading at about 300kb/s! When I stopped the second torrent it sank back to it's original speed (I tested this three times). How is that possible?On a side note, I have seen many people suggest that you should throttle down you torrent's speed because somehow that will help it download faster by putting less strain on the router (or something along those lines). My experience has shown me the exact opposite. If a torrent has a good enough seed/peer ratio then it will always download at 900kb/s-1.2mb/s for me. I have found that the more stress I put on my connection the more I can squeeze through. My technical max speed is 8mb/s (megabit) and I can get 400kb/s more than that with a torrent that has a great ratio.( I have not done any tweaking with my internet connection.) Is that a good speed or can torrents surpass your max connection even more?Also, I have found that the so-called "download limit" and "upload limit" do not work like they should. When I put a download limit of 200kb/s on a torrent that normally downloads at 700kb/s, absolutely nothing happens! I have tried it overnight but it still did not throttle it down. I have also tried stopping the download and restarting it, but nothing works. It seems to me that the download limit doesn't actually do anything...This is just a series of questions/problems I have had with utorrent compacted into one post. Feel free to comment on any or all of them.
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