uTorrent hogging TCP/IP bandwidth

[Ken2012]

Well, I've finally made the migration to the acclaimed superior BitTorrent client.

Trouble is, it seems to be robbing me of my TCP/IP bandwidth. Though my DSL is only a lousy 1Mb, I find I have no issues when using BitTorrent (the client).


Any suggestions?

 

[L233]

Well, I've finally made the migration to the acclaimed superior BitTorrent client.

Trouble is, it seems to be robbing me of my TCP/IP bandwidth. Though my DSL is only a lousy 1Mb, I find I have no issues when using BitTorrent (the client).


Any suggestions?

What's your Global Connections setting in uTorrent?

 

[Npl]

If you`re on Windows XP, then you should patch it to enable more than 10 half-open connections: http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=de&url=downloads. Else establishing connections might take long with a Torrent-Client running and in turn slowing down stuff like Browsers

 

[Ken2012]

What's your Global Connections setting in uTorrent?

My download limit is set to "unlimited" (0), if that's what you mean.

 

[L233]

My download limit is set to "unlimited" (0), if that's what you mean.

No, I mean the "Global maximum number of connections" setting.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Well, I've finally made the migration to the acclaimed superior BitTorrent client.

Trouble is, it seems to be robbing me of my TCP/IP bandwidth. Though my DSL is only a lousy 1Mb, I find I have no issues when using BitTorrent (the client).

What do you mean "robbing" you of bandwith? Do you mean it's using it all up, which is what it will try to do as it's trying to be as fast as possible unless you limit it?

Any suggestions?

Are you remembering to limit your upload so that you have some left over for your upstream ACKs? Otherwise you will choke your downstream.

Are you using a router?

 

[Ken2012]

No, I mean the "Global maximum number of connections" setting.

That's set to 750.

Are you remembering to limit your upload so that you have some left over for your upstream ACKs? Otherwise you will choke your downstream.

Are you using a router?

Upload rate is set to 50 kB/s.

I'm not using a router.

 

[L233]

That's set to 750.

Reduce it to 20 if you have a 1 MBit line.

The "maximimum number of connected peers per torrent" setting should never be higher than 20, either.

Upload rate is set to 50 kB/s

What's you DSL's upstream bandwidth? Use that minus 20% or so.

 

[Skrying]

Upload rate is set to 50 kB/s.

I'm not using a router.

Are you actually able to even hit that? That's a pretty damn extreme download/upload ratio for a consumer connection. I would suggest you set it at something more along the lines of 20 kb/s or so. I have a 1.5/384 connection and anything over 20 kb/s and it's lights out on using the net for even browsing.

 

[ERP]

I would agree with the last poster 50K up is probably too much, try 20 or 30.
You'll probably also want to cap your connction counts, to something way less than the defaults.