Settings for fast users

hello,

This client looks and feel good but I just can't seem to get the same speeds as I got with Bitcomet. I'm on a 100 full duplex line and got 5000kb/s easy both up and down but now it stays att 800kB/s down and 400kB/s down. Please help. What am I doing wrong.

/oRth

youve goto go inte preferences and then torrent options! There u "play" around!

Ive got 8/1Mbit adsl connection and theese are my settings:

Global Max: 1024

Max number of .. peers per torrent: 300

Number of upload slots per torrent: 10

Good Luck!

::edit::

Remember to select a torrent with a bunch of seeds... before coming back!

300's a bit high for an 8mbit connection. You should have 150 really.

However, for this guy with 100mbit, 300 is probably too little

Try 500 or 600 connections per torrent. Set the upload slots to 15.

Firon, care to make a table with recommended settings for several speeds and put it in your wiki?

@oRth: OMG OMG OMG How I envy your connection... This even beats the Swedes! Hey stefan, you're small fish!!

make everything 1000, it was designed to give you extra speed at those settings

hmm ok but 1000? Isn't there a limit in XP SP2? I've patched it to 50 and doesn't that mean that I can only have 50 connections to my comp?

@oRth: OMG OMG OMG How I envy your connection... This even beats the Swedes! Hey stefan, you're small fish!!

Actually, a Swedish isp recently upped its customers from 10/10 to 100/10, same price.

Yes, that Mbits

For the max connections, you'll need to go into the Advanced Settings and set the max_halfopen to something like 45 or 48.

hmm ok but 1000? Isn't there a limit in XP SP2? I've patched it to 50 and doesn't that mean that I can only have 50 connections to my comp?

No, this only means that you can make 50 connection -attempts- at any moment.

Set net.max_halfopen to 40-45 and you'll be fine. It has nothing to do with concurrent (total) connections.

Firon, care to make a table with recommended settings for several speeds and put it in your wiki?

I'll consider it. Though I think DWKnight might not like it, he recommends not going over 100 (sometimes even 50) for almost all residential connections

300's a bit high for an 8mbit connection. You should have 150 really.

Ive fiddled around quite a bit, and 150 didnt cut it for me..

Thanks for your replys but nothing helps.. I'll stick to BitComet for some time longer.

Are you sure it's not the torrents you're using? Try downloading a Linux distro and checking your speed with that. They're usually very well seeded.

http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.10/ubuntu-5.10-live-i386.iso.torrent

-Ares

or OpenOffice that has always been well seeded.