Improving uTorrent Download Speeds

[anon]

changing global # of connections to a number that corresponds with your private tracker/s userbase.

I'd make that a last resort, specially if he has a router. Opening many connections will do nothing in the best cases, and slow you down in the worst ones.

[sam45]

Ok I will try that

Something interesting happened today which I discovered by a fluke, but may point me in the right direction.

I normally have about 50-100 torrents active at any given time. ( Doesn't mean they are actively seeding )

I checked to see what would happen if I stopped all torrents except for the one downloading.

In time speeds increased, and eventually got to 1.0 MB/s though it wasn't steady

I then checked to see what would happen if I activated 25 torrents, and immediately the speeds dropped to below 300KB/s

I don't have any active torrents now, except for a test download, but that one is only at 300kb/s or so

I've also tested another torrent client Deluge and that one averages about 500KB/s

So that's my update, I'm not really sure what to make of it.

[KushBlow]

changing global # of connections to a number that corresponds with your private tracker/s userbase.

I'd make that a last resort, specially if he has a router. Opening many connections will do nothing in the best cases, and slow you down in the worst ones.

Sorry, let me rephrase that. What I meant was putting around 20-40 if your tracker's userbase is ~6000, and 60-80 if ~20000, etc. Sorry

[anon]

I checked to see what would happen if I stopped all torrents except for the one downloading.

In time speeds increased, and eventually got to 1.0 MB/s though it wasn't steady

I then checked to see what would happen if I activated 25 torrents, and immediately the speeds dropped to below 300KB/s

I see you've changed the net.max_halfopen value to 50, but is your TCPIP.SYS file patched to allow that?

Sorry, let me rephrase that. What I meant was putting around 20-40 if your tracker's userbase is ~6000, and 60-80 if ~20000, etc. Sorry

No worries! The values you mention are quite rational.

[sam45]

[QUOTE=anon-sbi;3522583]I see you've changed the net.max_halfopen value to 50, but is your TCPIP.SYS file patched to allow that?

No it isn't

As this is a new computer, I haven't done any of those things.

What should be the default value?

btw - thanks for the help

[anon]

No it isn't

As this is a new computer, I haven't done any of those things.

Then you could try either patching the file or setting net.max_halfopen to its default value of 8.

[sam45]

Ok cool, I will set it to 8 for now.

Also, is there something that could be modified here?

[anon]

Also, is there something that could be modified here?

Personally, I've changed a few of those settings to reduce long-term disk wear-tear, but for the average user yours are just fine.

[CleverMan]

I think you should set Seed While Ratio is <= 150% to -1. Don't know if this option even is working (i always have -1) but who knows, some of your torrents may stop seeding

[anon]

I think you should set Seed While Ratio is <= 150% to -1.

That probably makes torrents immediately jump to the "When uTorrent reaches the seeding goal" condition, which is either limiting your upload speed or stopping them entirely. Automated hit & runs aren't really a good idea.