Need Help With My UTorrent

i need some serious help with my torrents and internet speed in genral. 1. my torrents take 10hrs and above for a highly seeded torrent 2. my internet im paying for broadband but i download at 25kb/ps IT SOOOO WRONG . is there any advice ?

Please help me

 

Are you behind a router?

Is the coloured symbol in the bottom left of uTorrent red. yellow or green?

 

http://portforward.com/

 

Any ideas for internet speed ?

 

Id say if youve got comcast they might be throttling it (correct me if thats wrong). Either that or theres a TON of people trying to download it despite the fact that many are seeding.

 

Being kinder n00b no idea if im behind a router, i have done port fowarding and the symbol at the bottom switches between yellow and green

 

what is comcast ?

 

lol...whoopsy!!! Just noticed that youre in New Zealand hahaha. but anyway Comcast is an ISP here in the states that is being investigated by the FCC for throttling bit torrent traffic by forging TCP reset packets and sending them to the person uploading or downloading. The forged TCP reset packets essentially disconnect the seeder/leacher. Ars Technica did a really good job explaining it. But the bit torrent community has worked around it by introducing programs and encryption that doesnt allow such things to happen. utorrent is one of the programs that is capable of such.

 

Yes, good old utorrent. Ive been wrestling with it in wine atm, it is by far the best yet doesnt have a linux port, its a shame. Having to stick to ktorrent, as utorrent in wine is hideously slow.

ThatGingerGuy: Seeing as your bittorrent connection seems to be setup correctly, if you are getting a green symbol, I would look into your ISP, and weather they have any record of being slow with such things. Search the web for reviews, and try e-mailing them with your problem and see if they can offer any help.

 

LOL, its probably something to do with NZ's really cr*p internet and stuff. Go to Orcon. Do it

 

Take a look at the setup guide directly on the utorrent site. It will probably be your best solution.

CLICK HERE


Monkeybone

 

are you limiting you upload with utorrent, if so try to upload more than 6kb/s
if utorrent detects that your uploading at 5kb/s it automaticly limits the download to 25kb/s

 

Is that with a newer version? I limit my uploads to 1kb/s and i get more than 25kb/s download.

 

using v1.7.7 here (built 8179) dont realy know about other versions

 

Can you download at higher than 25kbs outside of the torrent, i.e. downloading via IE/Firefox?

 

i can now lol just my internet is very slow but i get up to 27 average lol

 

ok thanks i just tried that see how it goes

 

Ok guys i found something on the internet they say if you go into advance settings and change net.max_halfopen from 8 to 50 that speeds it up .... Yes No ?

 

Honestly I think that the main thing limiting your download is people like me who limit our upload speed.
You may be able to tweak out a little more but i cant see it being anything major.
As for that setting, give it a try. If it doesn't work you can always change it back.

 

that 1 kb/s limit is suckfull if you think about it because then no one get to download fast