xboi209 Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Every time i limit my upload speed to 1kb per second, my download rate barely goes anywhere. But when i set my upload speed to unlimited, my download rate goes up high. Is this how it works for bit torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 That's the way the protocol works. You don't upload, you don't get to download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 2nd link in my signature...best results come with matching uTorrent settings to your sustainable max upload speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboi209 Posted December 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Well i've limited my upload speed once before for a torrent and got a good download speed. Does a higher ratio also get me good peers that upload to me too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Ratio has no direct effect on your speeds and it has NO long-term memory!Peers upload more to you based on how much you upload to them RELATIVE to how much they are getting from OTHER peers at the same time.So uploading at max speed to 1 peer at a time may get back a lot from 1 peer...but one peer may only be willing to give you ~25 KB/sec.Uploading to very many peers (like 50+) will get you ignored (even snubbed!) by pretty much all of them, because you'll be uploading too slowly to them to "beat" or even "tie" other peers.Uploading very slowly will also get you ignored+snubbed by peers.The best results come from giving out about 5 KB/sec PER upload slot. (1 upload slot = uploading to 1 peer.) Do keep in mind that EACH active torrent may have its own set of upload slots!So if you upload at 50 KB/sec, that gives 10 total upload slots to be split between *ALL* your active torrents. Sometimes if you're on very busy torrents or very slow torrents, you might want slightly more or fewer upload slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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