Category: Geeks r Us
Does anyone know of any way for the person downloading a BitTorrent stream to increase the download speed? I've got a torrent downloading that's 393 MB in size, but it's only going at half the speed of dialup. All of my speed limits are set to no limit, and I'm using UTorrent 1.8. I also gave the torrent high bandwidth allocation.
To twkav:
Try upgrading to µTorrent 1.9 Beta (build 14908), and change your settings.dat file as follows. What kind of connection are you on, and do you have a high numbered port between 49000-65535 set, and the UTorrent port checker says its ok, and accepting connections?
If so, set the following:
number of connections: 100
max half open: 50
number of peers per torrent: 120
number of slots: 10
advanced, bt.transp_disposition 15
umber of connections over all, using the tcpip patcher for xp only, 150
the patcher is located at:
http://www.lvllord.de/
whatever torrent it is, as long as its not one from a private tracker, use this url:
http://btreannouncer.net
to get more trackers for it, and go from there, hth.
I'm running 1.8.3 beta, and my port is 44361. I'm on a broadband that normally gets download speeds of 768 to 890 kbps.
Their up to 1.9 now? wow, gotta upgrade mine.
No, they're not...I checked on the website, and it was still saying 1.8.3 beta.
To those who are using UTorrent 1.8.3, do you have memory leak issues? If so, switch back to 1.8.2, for now.
Spike where did ya get 1.9 at?
I got UTorrent 1.9 here:
http://filehippo.com/download_utorrent/5422/
As for the settings changes, yes, the only difference is that you have to set the bt, trans disposition to 13, not 15.
How can I identify a memory leak in an application?
By going to task manager and under processes see if the mem ussage goes up as the task is being used.
Run UTorrent 1.8.3, for a while, look at the ram usage in task manager, if it increases, then you should upgrade to 1.9, from the url posted above.
Also, try running a torrent, see if that also happens, if so, then the memory leak discussed in the utorrent forums still happens in this version.
As an example, the highest ram usage I've seen with my copy of UTorrent 1.9 is 20 mb, no more than 25 at max. It usually stays at between 12-15 mb ram usage. hth
i know this isn't exactly the topic you guys are discussing, but, i was wondering if anyone elce had this issue, every time i install mutorrent my computer gets racked with viruses. so i have to use bit tornado. pluss i noticed that mutorrent has the slowest download speed i've ever seen.
Download speeds aren't related to your client. They are related to how many other clients are seeding the torrent, and the bandwidth available to those clients. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
To twkav:
You're right, the speed of a torrent is dependent not only on how many seeds there are, but how much speed they have set. And how many leachers there are.
To Post 12:
UTorrent doesn't give you viruses just because you install it, if you do indeed believe it does, give us some log info, to show what viruses are installed, and why you believe UTorrent is the program that installed them? If you got a virus or spyware, its not UTorrent's fault, its your fault for downloading torrents that have malware in them.
Yes, it happens, and yes, it can happen to anyone, with any client, even if you've been downloading stuff for a while. I personally don't like Bit Tornado, but that's just my opinion.