uTorrent (again, I know its been covered before)

[Milambar]

Ok, so I installed uTorrent, and set it to download the Ubuntu cd, as a test.

After 2 minutes, I lost all connection to the internet, forcing me to reboot the modem (its a black Virgin one which is really just a rebadged Ambit 256).

I went into preferences and set global max connections to 100, and max connections per torrent to 80, and 1 upload slot and unticked the box to use additional connections. I then tried again.

It was great, until about 200MB had downloaded, all of a sudden, it dropped from 1MB/sec to 160KB/sec and stayed there, bang on 160KB/sec.

That really really smells like some kind of application throttling to me.

[Jonathan90]

Ok go into utorrent your on 20mbit i take it.

go to options speed guide choose connection type xx/768k port if you are directly wired choose a high port anything over 55000 click use selected settings.

Next go to preferences clikc bittorrent and turn on protocol encryption to outgoing. and thats it leave all other settings alone. then try again.

[hokkers999]

Ok, so I installed uTorrent, and set it to download the Ubuntu cd, as a test.

After 2 minutes, I lost all connection to the internet, forcing me to reboot the modem (its a black Virgin one which is really just a rebadged Ambit 256).

I went into preferences and set global max connections to 100, and max connections per torrent to 80, and 1 upload slot and unticked the box to use additional connections. I then tried again.

It was great, until about 200MB had downloaded, all of a sudden, it dropped from 1MB/sec to 160KB/sec and stayed there, bang on 160KB/sec.

That really really smells like some kind of application throttling to me.

I set outgoing bandwidth to 9K, in the connections section I use 80/55/3 and I never have any problems.

[Stabhappy]

Leecher eh?

[Ignitionnet]

Tricky not to be with the derisory upstreams we're provisioned :(

[hokkers999]

Leecher eh?

Not really, it means that I can still actually use the internet, and it can be left seeding 24/7.

Next dumb comment :dunce:

[Stabhappy]

you can easily upload at 40kb/s and have plenty left.

what you're effectively doing is slowing down the download for others as you take as much as possible and upload as little as possible (no matter how long you send for)

[Fatec]

Yep, you wouldnt last 5 minutes on a *real* tracker if you only upload at that speed.

[broadbandking]

Dammit man what upload speed are you on, the web doesn't need that much upload speed. nice to see you back fatec, as for the op torrents will only go at the speed the other people can send the file so if a seeder with a high upload suddenly left the swarm then your speed would drop.

I doubt its application throttling as the speed would be lower knowing VM.