I have a Gigabit Connection but slow torrent Speeds....!?!

[kutesar]

you could be having something thats chewing up your bandwidth check all the running programs plus check your start up programs NETVIEW your computer in Cmd.Lastly check with your ISP and find out your downloading speed.

[KARLOZ25]

Is BitTorrent traffic on a well-known BitTorrent port (6882) throttled?

* The BitTorrent upload (seeding) worked. Our tool was successful in uploading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent uploads. In our tests a TCP upload achieved at least 5221 Kbps while a BitTorrent upload achieved at most 5498 Kbps. You can find details here.

* The BitTorrent download worked. Our tool was successful in downloading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent downloads. In our tests a TCP download achieved at least 2132 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved at most 2573 Kbps. You can find details here.


Is BitTorrent traffic on a non-standard BitTorrent port (10010) throttled?

* The BitTorrent upload (seeding) worked. Our tool was successful in uploading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent uploads. In our tests a TCP upload achieved at least 5346 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved at most 5764 Kbps. You can find details here.

* The BitTorrent download worked. Our tool was successful in downloading data using the BitTorrent protocol.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits your BitTorrent downloads. In our tests a TCP download achieved at least 2460 Kbps while a BitTorrent download achieved at most 2610 Kbps. You can find details here.


Is TCP traffic on a well-known BitTorrent port (6882) throttled?

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits all downloads at port 6882. In our test, a TCP download on a BitTorrent port achieved at least 2682 Kbps while a TCP download on a non-BitTorrent port achieved at least 2460 Kbps. You can find details here.

* There's no indication that your ISP rate limits all uploads at port 6882. In our test, a TCP upload on a BitTorrent port achieved at least 5557 Kbps while a TCP upload on a non-BitTorrent port achieved at least 5346 Kbps. You can find details here.

[anon]

Looks like you aren't being shaped. Try this if you haven't already:
http://half-open.com/

You'll also need to increase uTorrent's net.max_halfopen value to 50 after patching the file.

[KARLOZ25]

Looks like you aren't being shaped. Try this if you haven't already:
http://half-open.com/

You'll also need to increase uTorrent's net.max_halfopen value to 50 after patching the file.

I have not done any advance mods or patches or tweaks to my utorrent connection...

I will try Halfopen....

I ran it and it gave me a dialogue box:

"The patch is not required, because this Windows version has no limit of half-open connections quantity."

[monkeyseat]

What is the connection limit in your utorrent config? Check it out under preferences - bandwidth - number of connections (not sure it these are the exact names since I'm not using an english version of utorrent).

[KARLOZ25]

Bandwidth:
Max Upload Rate: 5600

Global Downloading Rate Limiting: 0

Global Maximum Number of Connections: 950

Maximum Number of Connected Peers per Torrent: 125

Number of Upload Slots per Torrent: 50

Use additional upload slots if upload speed <90% [Checked]

[Tokeman]

I have mine set to 1000 and 500 with 6 upload slots
Had it lower, and never maxed out my home line...
You can only get the amount of speed equal to the speed available of the connected peers. If you only connect to 125 peers, and each only has X bandwidth, you will get more if you connect to more peers (if more peers are available that is)

[anon]

If you only connect to 125 peers, and each only has X bandwidth, you will get more if you connect to more peers (if more peers are available that is)

I know we're talking about a Gbit line here, but on a sidenote, on a "normal" home connection that will slow down things down due to the excessive overhead traffic. I have a 3Mbit connection and connecting to 20 seeders is enough to max it out.

[KARLOZ25]

If you only connect to 125 peers, and each only has X bandwidth, you will get more if you connect to more peers (if more peers are available that is)

I know we're talking about a Gbit line here, but on a sidenote, on a "normal" home connection that will slow down things down due to the excessive overhead traffic. I have a 3Mbit connection and connecting to 20 seeders is enough to max it out.

What should I have mine set too?

[Tokeman]

Just saying what works for me, I never said it was normal. But if I jump on older torrents (which I do often) and each only has a few KB upload, then connecting to as many seeders is needed, rather then 20 people at 5KB/seeder

I always max my down and up, peers permitting.