My uTorrent settings for my 100mbit connection.

[kitamesume]

well two questions, are you really using a 100mbit line? because if you're just using "right-click properties" on your connection then you'll be seeing your lan speed instead.
the other question is if its an "up to 100mbit" connection, my hunch is its on the ISP side, which usually is.

My windows settings are fine, using windows 7 ultimate: [img width=980

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Here are my results when using speedtest:

Although it doesn't show, my upload speed is around 1.2 - 1.4mb/s

my god, raw 100Mbit line.

[Tjoohej]

My settings are different:

Cache: 1280MB (higher settings make uT unstable, also that PC only has 2GB anyway)
All checkboxes checked except two - "Reduce memory usage when cache is not needed" and "Turn off read caching if upload is too slow".

I can manage about 10MB/s upload on this PC and ~7MB/s on another. I do not really care about download speed because when I download something it usually is downloaded very fast. Highest average download speed of a torrent (that I know of) is 14.2MB/s for Episode 2 of Pioneer One.

Theoretical connection speed - 300mbps up/down.

I use large caches to reduce the load on the hard drives, I would use even larger caches if uTorrent supported AWE (on 32bit systems) or at least x86_64 and large caches.

Hmm, think im gonna experiment later on with the cache settings a bit and see How high i can go before my computer slows down. But for now 256mb is sufficent.

[Tjoohej]

well two questions, are you really using a 100mbit line? because if you're just using "right-click properties" on your connection then you'll be seeing your lan speed instead.
the other question is if its an "up to 100mbit" connection, my hunch is its on the ISP side, which usually is.

My windows settings are fine, using windows 7 ultimate: [img width=980

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Here are my results when using speedtest:

Although it doesn't show, my upload speed is around 1.2 - 1.4mb/s

my god, raw 100Mbit line.

Maybe not the real real 100 mbit line, since i only got 10 mbit up. , but it's ok if you leave your computer on with utorrent allmost 24/7 hours a day. ^^

[xyx]

do not double post, please read rules/faq

[Tjoohej]

To late know, i know about the rules, just forgot that i quated another reply before, human error i guess.

[Meomix]

Just tried to directly connect my computer to the modem bypassing all the routers switches firewall and shit, even doe i could ping the modem (192.168.1.1) i couldn't enter the internet because it kept complaining about DNS.

I set the DNS to 192.168.1.1 didn't work, used the ISP DNS didn't work, what am i doing wrong?

[flyawave]

You aren't using google public DNS, that's what

[datora]

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I can see how this is exciting for someone with a slow-ish connection and they can get their DL a bit quicker.

But, I would be far more excited if there was a guide for optimizing upload.

Overriding the automatic cache size is a seeding tweak, disabling the untouched block write-out every 2 minutes should also be a seed tweak, with neither of these setting affecting leech speeds.  The category for enabling caching of disk reads should also be almost entirely for seeding activities.

If I read all this correctly, the suggested tweaks turn your client into a download-centric app that sacrifices seeding features at all opportunities.  Kinda anti-file sharing philosophy, eh?

I've used 3864 MB (or 256 or 512) override for cache size for years (when I have the RAM space to spare), largely to reduce disk wear, as Pentium100 mentioned.  When I've initial-seeded an offer, I try to use the largest cache my RAM will handle in an effort to increase seeding response time.

[Pentium100]

When I've initial-seeded an offer, I try to use the largest cache my RAM will handle in an effort to increase seeding response time.

The problem (maybe fixed now I don't know) is that once uTorrent process hits 2GB RAM usage (since it also uses RAM for things other than cache) it hangs. 2GB per process is 32bit Windows default limit. The programmer can get around it by either making a 64bit version of their app or using AWE in a 32bit app).

[Wintereise]

@Meo: Looks like a half duplex line. Under which wing of NTT are you under? Raw OCN? Or Hikari flets through NTT A/B?

OCN is full duplex, unsure about about the latter. Try capping the download at 6 or so MB/s and then try seeding.

I use raw OCN (200mbit/s, Tokyo) and have no issue hitting good speeds. Though, international peering isn't quite as good as Swedish internets.

[datora]

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When I've initial-seeded an offer, I try to use the largest cache my RAM will handle in an effort to increase seeding response time.

The problem (maybe fixed now I don't know) is that once uTorrent process hits 2GB RAM usage (since it also uses RAM for things other than cache) it hangs. 2GB per process is 32bit Windows default limit. The programmer can get around it by either making a 64bit version of their app or using AWE in a 32bit app).

Yah ... I'd run across that somewhere once.  Didn't remember the exact limit; thought maybe 1 GB for a while now.  But, I'm a been All Good: almost always I've used 384 MB (old habit of 3x 128 MB when I don't have a better guess or am bored).

I monitor my memory use regularly, and utorrent rarely uses more than about 50 MB.  Right now I'm using 32 MB (peaked at 78 MB), and it's been running ~40 torrents for ~36 hours now.  I wish it had more data cached in RAM ... I'm seeding off an external HDD over USB 2.0 at the moment.  It's all fine, no bottlenecks, heat buildup or anything ... but it would give me a happy if I knew utorrent was seeding largely out of RAM instead of hitting the drive over my USB controller.

[Meomix]

@Meo: Looks like a half duplex line. Under which wing of NTT are you under? Raw OCN? Or Hikari flets through NTT A/B?

OCN is full duplex, unsure about about the latter. Try capping the download at 6 or so MB/s and then try seeding.

I use raw OCN (200mbit/s, Tokyo) and have no issue hitting good speeds. Though, international peering isn't quite as good as Swedish internets.

Hmmm i think it's Hikari flets cause the name of the modem is hikari, Sorry don't know what A/B means, if by that you mean A or B network address support then it's B.

Egh i just remembered, we told NTT to disable nat translation on the modem and that we would use our own router to enter the internet, which would explain why the modem couldn't contact the dns i wonder if i can set up the win 7 built in firewall for nat translation.

I've capped the uTorrents and Bakatorrents DL / UPL but it didn't make much of a difference. Well releasing uTorrents upload cap of 1000 kB/s boosted the UPL speed from 5kB/s to 19/kBs, some 2 or 3 torrents randomly boost to an UPL of 100kB/s but thats only for 50 secs.

[Pentium100]

I've capped the uTorrents and Bakatorrents DL / UPL but it didn't make much of a difference. Well releasing uTorrents upload cap of 1000 kB/s boosted the UPL speed from 5kB/s to 19/kBs, some 2 or 3 torrents randomly boost to an UPL of 100kB/s but thats only for 50 secs.

Try disabling uTP.

[kitamesume]

@meomix

get inside your router and find DHCP setup/configuration/settings whatever it is and find the DNS entries, most likely its blank and put your desired DNS server there, if that doesnt work its possible to do it on your computer instead.

to do this, properties your connection and right-click "internet protocol version 4(TCP/IPv4)" or "internet protocol version 6(TCP/IPv6)" and manually set the DNS there.

[Meomix]

I've capped the uTorrents and Bakatorrents DL / UPL but it didn't make much of a difference. Well releasing uTorrents upload cap of 1000 kB/s boosted the UPL speed from 5kB/s to 19/kBs, some 2 or 3 torrents randomly boost to an UPL of 100kB/s but thats only for 50 secs.

Try disabling uTP.

Wow thanks, once i did saw improvement, a bakatorrent went from a DL speed of 600kB/s to 1.7MB/s.... 2.1MB/s!!! At worst it remains at a constant speed of 1.0 MB/s!

Oh and the UPL has gone from 19 KB/s to 50 KB/s now, with some at 80 KB/s.

@meomix

get inside your router and find DHCP setup/configuration/settings whatever it is and find the DNS entries, most likely its blank and put your desired DNS server there, if that doesnt work its possible to do it on your computer instead.

to do this, properties your connection and right-click "internet protocol version 4(TCP/IPv4)" or "internet protocol version 6(TCP/IPv6)" and manually set the DNS there.

Meh did all of that didn't work, im going to go to the router soon and force the router to give my computer DMZ privileges, i saw some amazing port restrictions lifted when done to another computer, maybe it will work here.

[Meomix]

Ok tried to force "DMZ mode" unto my computer also known as exposed host. The actual DMZ zone doesn't seem to do anything.



I then did another speed test, nothing happened. Blah.

Edit: I'm not sure but i think disabling UPnP port mapping made one bakatorrents upload speed shoot up to 1MB/s yes i said 1MB/s.

[Wintereise]

NTT A/B is basically NTT East/West, heh.

[Meomix]

NTT A/B is basically NTT East/West, heh.

Ohoh then i'm NTT West.

[datora]

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Try disabling uTP.

Gave that a shot & have been playing with it for a couple days.  Definitely seem to get a small U/L boost.

I'm using a 15/5 FiOS connection.  My U/L is usually just over 600/610 KBytes/sec, sometimes it will saturate ~640-ish.  Often it is running 580-610, sometimes 280-350 ... which is frustrating given that I know that is not saturated.  Also, very often I see peers (leechers) that I cannot connect to that I would really like to, especially when I have unused bandwidth just sitting there.

Doesn't seem to have affected my D/L ... I still saturate at ~2.3 MByte, sometimes flickering into 2.4, which I've seen since I first signed onto this service (Verizon).  That's pretty much well over my supposed 15 Mbits/sec rated ... comes in closer to 18-ish.

Disabling uTP suddenly has me pushing 650, which is completely saturated.  Also, I notice that I seem to be connecting much more regularly with leechers that are just sitting there inactive.  The caveat is that instead of a very steady, smooth rate, like 610 or 620, it bounces over a much wider range with each tick of the update.  So, I see 622, 672, 631, 640, 655, 661, 633, 627, 649, ..... (for quick examples just now.  My U/L graph is a unwavering red line right at the 650 mark ... which is pretty much exactly (if not over) my rated U/L bandwidth [ EDIT: lessee ... 650 KByte is 5.2 Mbit and 630 KByte is 5.040 Mbit ].

While it doesn't seem to really push me into unsane U/L ranges .. at least, they remain at my theoretical ISP max ... it does seem very effective to keep all my bandwidth in use.  I don't see it anemically languishing in the 180 or 300 or 450 ranges anymore.  In fact, don't seem to have noticed it under 600 or even  610 at all for a couple days now.  My speed boost maybe isn't large, but my total bandwidth use and saturation appears to have just gone up by well over 30%.  Normally I up ~1 TB/month w/ dedicated seeding ... I'll come back in 1st week of Sept & remark if I seem to have jumped to the 1.2 or 1.4 TB range.

Me hava happy!      THANK YOU !! for that tip ... most useful bandwidth boosting tip I've received in two years or more. 


Other misc. info: I gave utorrent 3 a try and the aggravation sliced about three years off my life expectancy, so I dropped back to 2.0.4 as the last interface that I really consider simple, intuitive and efficient.  Topic here if you wish to locate old versions that are still whitelisted at bakaBT at this time:

> Torrent/Tracker Issues > old versions of utorrent? where to DL ..?


Quick follow-up on a previous post here:  Even though I set my cache at 384 MB, I've been carefully watching Mem Use by utorrent ... it rarely exceeds ~50 MB, usually bouncing right at about 40, and the Peak Mem never seems to exceed ~75 MB, so that tweak definitely seems to peak out if you have 96 MB or maybe 128 set.

[Meomix]

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Try disabling uTP.

Gave that a shot & have been playing with it for a couple days.  Definitely seem to get a small U/L boost.

I'm using a 15/5 FiOS connection.  My U/L is usually just over 600/610 KBytes/sec, sometimes it will saturate ~640-ish.  Often it is running 580-610, sometimes 280-350 ... which is frustrating given that I know that is not saturated.  Also, very often I see peers (leechers) that I cannot connect to that I would really like to, especially when I have unused bandwidth just sitting there.

Doesn't seem to have affected my D/L ... I still saturate at ~2.3 MByte, sometimes flickering into 2.4, which I've seen since I first signed onto this service (Verizon).  That's pretty much well over my supposed 15 Mbits/sec rated ... comes in closer to 18-ish.

Disabling uTP suddenly has me pushing 650, which is completely saturated.  Also, I notice that I seem to be connecting much more regularly with leechers that are just sitting there inactive.  The caveat is that instead of a very steady, smooth rate, like 610 or 620, it bounces over a much wider range with each tick of the update.  So, I see 622, 672, 631, 640, 655, 661, 633, 627, 649, ..... (for quick examples just now.  My U/L graph is a unwavering red line right at the 650 mark ... which is pretty much exactly (if not over) my rated U/L bandwidth [ EDIT: lessee ... 650 KByte is 5.2 Mbit and 630 KByte is 5.040 Mbit ].

While it doesn't seem to really push me into unsane U/L ranges .. at least, they remain at my theoretical ISP max ... it does seem very effective to keep all my bandwidth in use.  I don't see it anemically languishing in the 180 or 300 or 450 ranges anymore.  In fact, don't seem to have noticed it under 600 or even  610 at all for a couple days now.  My speed boost maybe isn't large, but my total bandwidth use and saturation appears to have just gone up by well over 30%.  Normally I up ~1 TB/month w/ dedicated seeding ... I'll come back in 1st week of Sept & remark if I seem to have jumped to the 1.2 or 1.4 TB range.

Me hava happy!    THANK YOU !! for that tip ... most useful bandwidth boosting tip I've received in two years or more.  


Other misc. info: I gave utorrent 3 a try and the aggravation sliced about three years off my life expectancy, so I dropped back to 2.0.4 as the last interface that I really consider simple, intuitive and efficient.  Topic here if you wish to locate old versions that are still whitelisted at bakaBT at this time:

> Torrent/Tracker Issues > old versions of utorrent? where to DL ..?


Quick follow-up on a previous post here:  Even though I set my cache at 384 MB, I've been carefully watching Mem Use by utorrent ... it rarely exceeds ~50 MB, usually bouncing right at about 40, and the Peak Mem never seems to exceed ~75 MB, so that tweak definitely seems to peak out if you have 96 MB or maybe 128 set.

Also set uTorrents Upload and Download caps to unlimited.
At uTorrent Preferences Disable UPnP port mapping.
Global maximum number of connections: 600 (If the number you have surpasses this then don't bother, same for below)
Maximum number of connected peers per torrent: 400
Number of upload slots per torrent: 170
At the Queueing tab set Minimum ratio to 1000 (If you're doing fine with a higher number then don't bother)

Try tweaking these settings then see if your speed improves.