really slow on a dsl connection?

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I've got a dsl connection, comcast is my isp. Usually i can download files from limewire at anywhere from 40-200 mb/second. On utorrent i'm lucky if i hit 1.2 kb/sec. Am I doing something wrong here?

[Firon]

Have you read the stickies? Or the FAQ for that matter?

[Alterno]

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Firon, i see many rants on the net about utorrent being better than bitcomet, but now I wonder on what? Is this a Upload oriented client, yes I know as a torrent client using the torrent protocol it should upload, but it focus on the upload speed more than the download speed and I did everything you say. I don't want to sound like a moron, but you should really check this issue, the best xp I got is about 15kbps downstream and 22k upload speed.

[1c3d0g]

That's because µTorrent plays fair, while BitVomit does not...it's a selfish client. You've been used to high speeds with BitVomit, but that's 'cause BitVomit cheats its way to reach higher speeds...and in the process totally fucking up the swarm. Now that's not very nice, is it? :|

[Alterno]

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Ok how does it cheat, i am using the .63 version right now and it UPLOADS, so where is the cheating, I get faster download speed with Azureous than with Utorrent, but I prefer to Use Bitcomet because is use less resources then I came to here to see Utorrent and found that I don't use the full potential of my connection.

The maximum upload speed I gave to other userse is 22k while I download at 27kbps is that selfish. Plus I think here we are looking for developers help more than your opinion, why?, because we started to like Utorrent . So please get a life, don't be a robot and think by yourself.

[Ultima]

It's a well-known fact that BitComet cheats. You can search through the forums if you want, as all the reasons are already posted around. µTorrent strives to be a good client overall, not just to upload faster. If it seems otherwise, then maybe you have to configure your settings properly =T

[1c3d0g]

Alterno: I really don't want to go into your pissing contest, as this has been debated to death and everyone with at least half a brain has come to the conclusion that BitVomit cheats. Whether you like that or not is irrelevant. And yeah, I do have a life, no, I'm not a robot and yes, I do think by myself.

Edit: just for you, I searched for the things BitVomit cheats on. Everyone can verify this for themselves:

Most of you think BitComet is "faster" than other clients, but what u don't know is the reason why.

The reason why is because of its countless "cheating like" characteristics, for example:

# it hamers the tracker, and pays no attention to the tracker when it tells the client how long to wait before re-announce.

# when it gets snubed by another peer (basically meaning the peer refuses to give the BC client any upload because it has not been given any download from the BC client, the BC client then disconnects up to 10+ times per second to that client in an attempt to get unsnubed.

# It has no (working) upload slot limit, so it makes the upload bandwith so streached out that each peer only gets a few 100 bytes per second or less.

# The new encrypt header feature in BC 0.60 gave it a very unfair advantage and would basically prefer itself over uploading to other tpyes of clients. (afaik, uTorrent is working on a similar feature, but will be making it public information, so that all other clients can implement it if their authours wish to; this is the only real way for this to be effective)

# If you request too many pieces from it (something around 100? or so), it drops ALL your requests.

# It also abuses super-seeding by disconnecting and reconnecting to get a slot, and basically monopolize the super-seeder's bandwidth.

# It has an abusive multi-tracker implementation (announces to all trackers in all tier always).

# It also does stupid things when making torrents (such as not use UTF-8 as the encoding for chinese, japanese, and korean users that make torrents)

[Alterno]

It's a well-known fact that BitComet cheats. You can search through the forums if you want, as all the reasons are already posted around. µTorrent strives to be a good client overall, not just to upload faster. If it seems otherwise, then maybe you have to configure your settings properly =T

Well I have Utorrent in my pc but deleted the appdata stuff, till i can fix this, I even tried updating the tcpip file and not look, as I told you my Downstream speed is 256K while my upload xp is 192k, so I selected in the speed setting the xx/256. Please don't take my post as flame i would like to see this software working on full potential in my computer.

My router is a (thomson) speedtouch 536 and is knows a 500 series

Line Status

Enabled

Bandwidth Up/Down (Kbit/sec)

192 / 256

Uptime

02:51:18

If you can give me any help please I would be really thankful. I like this software because it don't have useless things like a built in favorites and web browser, because I think is fine to search torrentes from the web browsers like IE7 or the others.

I am going to re - read carefully again the FAQ

thank you for the patience with me ultima

[Firon]

You have to choose the UPLOAD, like the Speed Guide says. You apparently have a 256kbit/192kbit connection, so choose xx/192kbit.

[Ultima]

Indeed reading the Speed Guide instructions more clearly would be a better idea than rereading the entire FAQ (much shorter xD).

[Alterno]

You have to choose the UPLOAD, like the Speed Guide says. You apparently have a 256kbit/192kbit connection, so choose xx/192kbit.

Thanks reinstalled and testing.

Hope it works.

[Alterno]

Firon, I think your program is great, but that trouble of the download speed need to be adressed properly, I changed the settings to what you told me and I reached the 2 digits 18 max download atm, and also the download speed is higher now than the upload speed but it does not reach the 25/27 my connection can reach, neither 19dkps and the dht dot was in green status.

I did everything posted in this website in the FAQ and sticky posts.

Ill be looking to use the next version to see if this bug is fixed.

thanks anyway.

[Nefarious]

are you trying on only one torrent or different torrents?

have u tried on a well seeded torrent? does it happen the same?

BTW, it is not bug if it works correctly for most of us

[Ultima]

Something can still be a bug even if it's working correctly for a majority -- might be an isolated case that's really caused by µTorrent (if everyone noticed every bug for every software, then there wouldn't be lingering bugs spanning several versions). In this case, though, it's probably a configuration problem =P

@Alterno: Did you try this suggestion? And FYI, you can't always expect to max your connection out on BitTorrent.

[1c3d0g]

Once again Ultima nailed it. Be realistic about your download speeds.

[Alterno]

Once again Ultima nailed it. Be realistic about your download speeds.

I know, that most of the time I wont reach the maximum download speed, yesterday I tried downloading a file with about 200 users seeding from isohunt and nothing, the maximum I reached was 18kbps and the aupload speed was about 16/20 kbps, ill try the open office torrent, and tell you later.

[Ultima]

The number of seeders and peers tell you nothing about the speed of a torrent. For all you know, all the users might have crap connections and/or are limiting their speeds severely, or maybe they don't want to connect to you at all, in which case you're going to get crap speeds =P

[Nefarious]

still, no one has tried the openOffice torrents, that would explain a lot

[Switeck]

I've got a dsl connection, comcast is my isp. Usually i can download files from limewire at anywhere from 40-200 mb/second.

This information is quite simply not possible.

Firstly, ComCast is a cable internet provider -- I am totally unaware of them offering DSL on even a limited basis anywhere.

Secondly, speeds of 40-200 mb/second is nearly impossible as well via Limewire. This is because the fastest DSL or cablemodem service offered in the USA (where ComCast is located) is only about 20 megabits/second. Most are 10 megabits/second or less, as most DSL and Cable 'modems' have only a 10 megabit/second LAN port on them. Beyond that, most LANs and routers are 100 megabits/second absolute theoretical maximum -- with most only reaching about 80 megabits/second in practice. There are gigabit/second network connections...for LANs -- but even they seldom reach more than 150 megabits/second in practice.

As others have already pointed out, using realistic values with µTorrent means it won't overload your connection which causes bad results. So first, ask you ISP what you really have.

[Ultima]

I'm guessing he probably meant KiB/s =T

[majinsoftware]

Iv got sort of the same problem Im on 256/128 internet and with Utorrent max down it will do is around about 10kb/s but up it does constant 12kb/s which iv set in the settings. All settings look fine.

With every other bittorrent client iv used Iv managed to get 32kb/s avrage down and 16kb/s up max. and iv used lots of driffent ones.

Firewalls shouldnt be a problem because the computer runing it is only a install of XP with a direct connection to the internet with out and software firewalls.

Ill have to stick with the origanl client till the speed gets sorted out on utorrent.

[Ultima]

Have you disabled DHT?

[Firon]

The Speed Guide suggests a lower upload cap for 128kbit upload than 12 (9) for a reason.

[Nefarious]

Iv got sort of the same problem Im on 256/128 internet and with Utorrent max down it will do is around about 10kb/s but up it does constant 12kb/s which iv set in the settings. All settings look fine.

With every other bittorrent client iv used Iv managed to get 32kb/s avrage down and 16kb/s up max. and iv used lots of driffent ones.

Firewalls shouldnt be a problem because the computer runing it is only a install of XP with a direct connection to the internet with out and software firewalls.

Ill have to stick with the origanl client till the speed gets sorted out on utorrent.

16kB/s up is really high for 128kbps, is like u were just next door from the isp central or somethen

what did the speed test say u have?

[Badsecurityforum]

Don't forget, 128 kbps is the line speed, you have to substract TCP Overhead and the control packets. Normally you won't get much more than about 90% of this value.

My download is 2048 kbps. I have never seen a download speed above 230-233 kBps. That is about 90% from 256 kBps, the theoretical limit.