uTorrent

[madonion]

Anyone know why uTorrent should slow down browsing using a NTL 250 modem. Only d/l'ing at about 15kb/s so should not make that much difference but it does. A BT line modem seems faster and does not slow down the browsing!

[LemonyBrainAid]

Are you seeding aswell?

[AndrewJ]

Yip if your flooring your upload, your browsing will be hit aswell.

When I used 2mb sharing family movies to friends if i went over 19kbs my downstream was hit big time.

[Chrysalis]

wish people start learning to cap their upload on these things instead of allowing upstream to saturate.

[bopdude]

Set your upload to about 80% of your connection limit, think thats a rule of thumb I heard somewhere.

And to the site.

[Chrysalis]

why not it set much lower, whats the rush to upload as much as you can, whats wrong with 30%? you will still get the same download speeds. 80% on torrent would still affect browsing and affect other's on the ubr more severely.

[Matth]

The more you offer, the more you get - if you throttle down too much, you get less data exchange (tit for tat) with incomplete peers. Do unto others, if you want them to do unto you.

For a 1 Mbit connection, 10kB upload and 4 upload slots is about the maximum - if you lower it to 8k, then lower the upload slots to 3 but allow extra slots. The new version has a tuning function, but it doesn't suit the extreme asymmetry of cable. The ideal seems to be that you offer around 2.5kB per slot, as a minimum.

NB. Upload slots are the number of "leechers" (co-downloaders) you can be connected to, seeds do not require upload slots.

[Chrysalis]

well the last time I used utorrent to get some music which was in december when the 10meg was kickass, I set upload to 5kB/sec (yes 56k speed) and was leeching at over 900kB. The download speed is to do with # of seeds and to a lesser extenct peers, uploading at 60kB when there is 1 seed and 2 peers isnt gonna get you blazing speeds.