Please help!! need help with running utorrent with your-freedom

[esbee]

hi...

i tried running utorrent with your-freedom which is a proxy tunneling software but its not working...

i entered 'localhost:1080' type 'socks 4' in the proxy server field under other in the utorrent preferences after reading a previous post about using your-freedom...but i'm not able to download anything...

in the main window there is a yellow light instead of green and if i hover my mouse over it it says 'no incoming connections'

its showing how many seed and peers there are but its not connected to any seeds or peers...but the 'tracker status' says 'working'...

also to the left of the yellow light on the bottom status bar it says 'download limited'...

please help...i'm using your-freedom client version 20051028-01, win xp...if u require more info plz ask...

really any help would be greatly appreciated...

[Ultima]

1) Let the Speed Guide set your upload speed for you.

2) Have you tried unchecking the proxy for peer-to-peer connections to see if it makes a difference?

[esbee]

i've used the speed guide to limit upolads to 5 kb/sec.

i tried unchecking the peer-to-peer connections - if i disable it then the tracker status shifts from 'working' to 'proxy error: timed out (offline)'

in the main window the dht status is stuck on 'waiting for announce' - tried disabling dht - still no difference

should i use some other proxy tunneler?

thing is if i dont use a proxy tunneler then the tracker status says 'target machine actively refused connection' - only difference using the tunneler is that i can see the no. of seeds and peers but availability remains 0.0

[Switeck]

The yellow light on the bottom status bar is not related to 'download limited'.

'download limited' is caused by limiting upload speeds to less than 6 KB/sec. It's in the FAQ.

However your problem is you have no peers or seeds connected, 'download limited' should have no effect on that one way or another.

You may need to try allowing very few connections, very low half-open connection limit, and very conservative settings elsewhere too. ...Such as disabling DHT.

[esbee]

thanx for clearing up the 'download limited' confusion...

thing is previously i had an unrestricted connection and there were no issues downloading - i used to get speeds around 20-30 kb/sec on utorrent...but now with the restricted connection if i use a tunneler the connection itself becomes very slow (sites take much longer to access) - is there any way to speed up the connection?

[Switeck]

"but now with the restricted connection if i use a tunneler the connection itself becomes very slow (sites take much longer to access) - is there any way to speed up the connection?"

Yes, find a balance between minimal number of connections and download+upload speeds AND how much "drag" it puts on everything else you do on the internet.

Don't expect that to be easy. A perfect balance may well be impossible. Even time-of-day issues may cause a set of settings to work fine in the middle of the night and crawl like a crippled dog during 4pm to 9pm.

µTorrent's speed graphs can help tell if it's able to reach the speeds you set with stability. Bursty is very bad on the upload side! It usually means there's a nasty bottleneck somewhere. Download speeds tend to be a little bit bursty, but even they smoothen out if you're not pushing the connection's (or proxy connection's!) limits too closely.