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Bob2004:
As someone who ise very happily using utorrent 3 with uTP enabled, I can assure you that that is not the reason for his poor seeding speeds. The modern versions of utorrent work just fine. They may or may not be more or less efficient than older versions - I have yet to see any kind of reliable study demonstrating any kind of correlation - but at worst, they are not poor enough to cause any problems.

Freedom Kira:
You probably have a good router then. Not all routers can handle it. When used in the wrong (right) places, uTP will cause slowdown.

Bob2004:

--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on November 05, 2012, 06:49:04 AM ---You probably have a good router then. Not all routers can handle it. When used in the wrong (right) places, uTP will cause slowdown.

--- End quote ---

Hm, my current router (can't remember what model it is because the admin page won't load, but it's the default router Virgin Media give customers of their 60Mb internet package) is infamous for hating P2P. There are loads of stories of it choking, throttling speeds for no good reason, triggering the IP flood detection on its firewall and blocking it completely for a while, etc. Then again, it is designed to be used with internet connections of 100Mb/s, so it does have plenty of throughput.

My previous router was an old Netgear 832G (or something like that). Had it for a few years (and got it second hand to start with), and it tended to crash every day or so for no good reason. Before that, I had an older Virgin router which seemed to be incapable of doing any kind of useful load balancing (there were 8 of us using it).

Anyway, my point is that I've never had any particularly good routers. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I believe that for the majority of people, uTP will work exactly as intended. If it didn't, Bittorrent wouldn't have released it.

Freedom Kira:
Hmm, most routers are 10/100 or 10/100/1000 these days, so having a 10/100 router (assuming yours is not gigabit) and getting good uTP performance suggests that there might be something else at play here.

It really is hard to say. You might say you want to see some hard evidence about the correlation between uTP and seeding performance, but such research is not likely to be done by professionals, and anyone else would not likely do it simply because of the sheer costs such an experiment would incur. So, the best we can do for now, and probably for a while, is what we get from people's reports on their own experiences. I intend to suggest disabling uTP to people and see what their reactions are. So far, the results are 1-1 even.

MyonMyon:
To be honest, I don't really think it is important if uTP is enabled or disabled. The only thing that really matters is what gives you the best performance. Just test it and see which one works better for you.

For me switching to old uTorrent (without uTP) happened to boost the upload speed in a major way. For someone else it might not. But having uTP enabled or disabled has no absolute value alone if it does not affect your upload/download positively.

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