any private trackers with large swarms?

[pone44]

10000 max connections,600 per torrent seems way to high. Even using public trackers. Do you have dht enabled when you are downloading from public bt sites?

My global max connections (in utorrent) is already set to 10000. Connected peers per torrent is 600, and upload slots per torrent is 30.

I recently had the chance to compare a 2000/10000 seed:peer swarm to a 1000/2000 seed:peer swarm. The 1000:2000 swarm maxed out my connection (~4.3MB/sec). With the 2000/10000 swarm my average speed was around 400 KB/sec with a max around 500 KB/sec). So I guess there is a point at which seed:peer ratio starts to reduce download speeds.

I joined a private tracker from the open tracker list, but I was again disappointed with the download speeds. The torrents were small. Usually less than 10 in the swarm. So far TPB has beat it every time when the same files were available. It did have some rare files that I couldn't find on TPB or btjunkie though.

[gojirasan]

Why is it too high? I do have DHT enabled.

[sake]

You can if you set your client's maximum amount of connections to a ridiculously high amount, but you'll then have to deal with extra overhead, which will slow "real" downloads down.

My global max connections (in utorrent) is already set to 10000. Connected peers per torrent is 600, and upload slots per torrent is 30.

I recently had the chance to compare a 2000/10000 seed:peer swarm to a 1000/2000 seed:peer swarm. The 1000:2000 swarm maxed out my connection (~4.3MB/sec). With the 2000/10000 swarm my average speed was around 400 KB/sec with a max around 500 KB/sec). So I guess there is a point at which seed:peer ratio starts to reduce download speeds.

I joined a private tracker from the open tracker list, but I was again disappointed with the download speeds. The torrents were small. Usually less than 10 in the swarm. So far TPB has beat it every time when the same files were available. It did have some rare files that I couldn't find on TPB or btjunkie though.

This is my configuration:



... and i don`t have any troubles

[anon]

Why is it too high? I do have DHT enabled.

Because there's a small amount of traffic spend in maintaining a connection open, even when you're not uploading or downloading anything. Now, multiply that by all your idle connections. Having DHT enabled adds even more overhead, from that point of view.

I have a 3Mbit line and I can max my download out with these settings:

• Global connections: 130
• Connections per torrent: 30
• Number of upload slots per torrent: 3
• Use additional upload slots if...: yes

uTorrent has a built-in speed guide and tester which should automatically find the best settings for your line, try it!