Utorrent Tweaks? And Go-Large plan..

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nismonz

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#16512 13-Oct-2007 12:27

Hey,
sorry if there is already a forum on this but i need some recommendations. Currently i get around 3mbits down and 128k up. I get speeds of round 30kbs off peak hours and 15-30 on peak.. wat are the optimum settings for me, should i use american speed tests to setup my max peer connections etc. Ive port fowarded a port over 40000 had a play round with most of the settings but wat has worked and continues to work for others??

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sbiddle

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#90909 13-Oct-2007 12:30

If you're trying to get faster speeds for downloading P2P files then your only option is to move to another plan. Go Large will throttle all P2P traffic which results in the slow speeds.

nismonz

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#90915 13-Oct-2007 13:26

nah cause the unlimited part fits me well... wat are my optimum for the connection i have at the moment.

NZtechfreak

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#90921 13-Oct-2007 14:06

Try Bittornado? Its quite a no-frills torrent client, but I keep going back to it.

I've used Utorrent a lot, but a few weeks ago I gave up as it appears to kill my internet connection.

Tried good 'ol Bittornado again and I've gone from 'top' speeds of like 150K/sec, and generally far less than that, to top speeds of 385K/sec (max line speed for me) and an average somewhere in the 270-300K/sec range. So maybe change the torrent client and see if that makes any difference?

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Zimsar10

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#91058 15-Oct-2007 06:59

nismonz: nah cause the unlimited part fits me well... wat are my optimum for the connection i have at the moment.

As sbiddle said, Telecom Speed Throttle the Go Large Plan for numerous P2P Programs, you are highly unlikely to get any better than what you are getting now, no tweaking will fix that, it's controlled at the ISP end.

No1Daemon

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#91063 15-Oct-2007 08:17

Hi

I agree with ZIMsar10.
I am also on the go large plan and use Utorrent and I had to suck it up and accept that on this plan I was going to have to be content that I had no download/upload limit.
It looks to me like you are getting your maximum for a throttled connection because that is the same speed as I am getting.
With 128 kb up you can only make so many connections anyway to accept data.
At least you can limit your upload speed and leave it serving any bittorrent sites you have joined and it will increase your share ratio if you have one.

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#91862 21-Oct-2007 19:21

I use Azureus since its more configurable. I tried uTorrent and found it was generally slower.

In azureus, I download no more than 2 torrents at once (important)
If you have a cheap modem / one from your isp, set your max connections to 150-200. I had a d-link one from slingshot that would crash if it had to process more than 180ish. I went back to an old US Robotics that handles over 500 connections at a time - and gives better performance because of it.

Your client will also not waste time connecting to other peers and have to give up on them - instead it will queue them untill one of your currently low performing peers is disconnected, and then it will try them with a better hit rate of success.

Set your upload speed appropriatly. Torrents work by looking at how much you upload and contribute. I use a couple of sites that tell you how much you have uploaded to torrents on the site since registering, and how much you have downloaded. Their trackers literally prioritise downloads for people who upload and contribute more. For this reason I am on a FS/FS plan so I can upload at 60+kbps after I have completed my download so my ratio can get back up to 1:1
If you are on go large then that would mean your upload speed is limited to 128kbps. i suggest setting your max upload speed to 12kBps.
-However- I find that sites like torrentspy refer you to all sorts of trackers and so they dont monitor your ratio as you might never connect to the same tracker again.

Encrypt your traffic.
Azureus allows you to encrypt your traffic, and still allow connections to other peers that dont encrypt. Most ISPs dont yet have the capability to identify encrypted traffic as a torrent and dont automatically throttle it down. So there is a chance that the other peer is also encrypting their traffic, and if so, there is a chance that it wont get throttled and then will go faster. There is an option that will still allow you to connect to non encrypted peers, but you may be throttled - better than nothing.

Also azureus will let you know by some tests that you can perform within the program to let you know if the nat and firewall settings are correct. It also uses the distributed tracker system

Hope this helps

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MuShrOomKing

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#93490 2-Nov-2007 15:39

have you Tried encrypting utorrent ?

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bleetz

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#93649 4-Nov-2007 09:50

hello :)

Same problem here, no manner of settings ports and/or clients tend to change the issue. You might get a few Kbs +/- between clients & settings but Xtra have done a pretty good job of limiting the traffic over P2P...

the only thing left really is another ISP/Plan

aschteev

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#93653 4-Nov-2007 10:44

Use this program here to change the max amount of open TCP connections from 10 to 50 (assuming you have XP). Then go into your uTorrent Preferences, click advanced, and change the net.max_halfopen value from 10 to 50.

Click BitTorrent (still in settings) and change the global number of connections to 500, and the max number of connected peers per torrent to 150. Make sure that encryption is enabled as well.

Next, click on Connection, and make sure that you have the correct port set up and forward in your router. Make sure UPnP is turned off. Under bandwith limiting, set your global upload maximum to 16, and alternate to, say 8. These values that I have are for FS upload, Go Large only has 128kbps upload.

Not expecting this to help much, but its worth a shot. Its how I have my uTorrent setup, and this is what I can get (not on Go Large, though)