Torrent Problem. Connection grinds to a halt.

[brundles]

FUD? That's not one I've seen before but I can guess what it means

Isn't the success of either approach going to depend on the environment? For some of the public trackers around that regularly have 100+ peers at a time, no-one understands how it works and everyone leaves a ton of torrents running I think you're right - having more connections open will give better overall download rates for your contribution.

But on a private tracker where people have to maintain ratios and seed back into the system I'm not sure it would work so well as people work to provide higher upload speeds on their end.

The protocol was designed to reward people who put more back into the swarm, but if nobody is really contributing much then you're better off playing their game and winning. Perhaps it's time to find a client that supports profiles to swap between the two approaches

[Chrysalis]

the 10meg I got was on a private torrent. 10meg would never be possible on a public torrent too many leechers to seeds.

all the ratios do is serve a purpose to keep track of what people are doing and if they stay too low for too long they lose their login, it has absolutely no bearing on what speeds you get.

utorrent supports selecting number of upload slots etc.

[Seirrsh]

This isn't a problem of speeds though, more to do with it 'crashing'. My low speed is just due to me limiting the client program so that it doesn't crash as often.

[Gster]

Have you tried linking your modem to your comp directly and seeing if that changes the speeds?

Utorrent is a good new client as well, get the latest one. I get max speed at TB all the while but other sites can be slow. But yeah i'd try Utorrent and also connecting directly to rule out the router for sure.

Oh and the "setting your upload speed faster gets you better speeds" is a lie kinda.

It works on the fact that if EVERYONE set their upload speed to near max the torrent will fly along as everyone is seeding fast. But if EVERYONE limits their upload the torrent will crawl. Although if just one person limits their speed they will see no speed decrease if everyone else is at max. But you might as well put your upload to 80-90% of your max, it doesnt affect my speed at all and means you seed 1:1 much faster

[grubbymitts]

So I hear:
If you have SP2 this can affect torrents because MS in their wisdom limited the number of open/half open connections with SP2 to try and make XP more secure.

There is a work around to it, but I think it is something to do with a TCP hack.


If your torrent program/pc keeps crashing then maybe it is time for a reinstall?

[Chrysalis]

It "can " affect torrents but new versions of the apps or at least new utorrent doesnt need loads of half opened ports. The SP2 limitation is for half open ports not established connections.

[Seirrsh]

I've tried uTorrent but it has the same effect as all other clients.

I've tried playing about with the 'XP connection hack' to improve the situation, but it changes nothing.

I did a cable modem power check last night (first time I'd ever done it) and the power outside the limit in a Sticky on this site. That matter much or at all ?

I have an 'ntl home 100', some people on some message boards with the 'ntl home 120' seem to have the same issue. But I imagine that a lot of people don't. What are people here using ?

[Seirrsh]

Well I've just spoken to NTL technical support and I have to say that I've never spoken to such muppets in all my life.

So I cannot do anything when downloading torrents, I assume other people can...so where is the problem?

[Chrysalis]

try using an alternative tracker port since standard ones will give the tracker the ntl proxy ip instead of yours reducing your connectability status.

Utorrent has an option to manually report specified ip to tracker overiding auto detection.