Increasing Torrent Speeds

[definedv]

Hey folks, I have a 15/0.5 mbs connection, often higher according to speedtest but I tend to max out torrenting at around 1.4/0.04mbs/. I generally use private trackers, but regardless of how many seeds I seem to hit at a maximum of 1.7mbs DL and 0.05 mbs UL at any given time. If I have more than one torrenting going at a time, the total DL speed adds to around 1.4-1.7mbs as well.

I was wondering if this is normal, or if there's anything that can be done to increase my speeds to speeds closer my cap. I am currently using a Thomson RCA modem and the latest UTorrent. I have maxium DL/UL cap configured at 12 & 0.4 Mbs respectively along with a maxiumum of 300 connections per torrent 1000 global. I don't believe I am being throttled either nor is any security/firewall blocking UTorrent.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[anon]

Increasing Torrent Speeds

The simplest (yet most effective) procedure I've assembled to get maximum speeds is:

1. stop anything that uses your Internet connection. That includes torrents.
2. go to Options -> Speed Guide in uTorrent, pick the physically closest server at the top, and hit Run Tests at the bottom. Let it run, accept and save the settings it decides.
3. resume torrenting and see what happens.

You may find that the suggestions greatly differ from what you've been using so far. This is okay. If it doesn't work...

• disable upload and download speed limits
• force encryption and disallow legacy connections
• disable automatic bandwidth management

(All those settings are in the Preferences dialog)

If you still aren't getting top speeds, you are shaped. The speeds you mention are very close to 10% of the maximum speed, and that's what shapers are often set to.

[definedv]

I did a quick test on Glasnost and there were no inductions of traffic shaping. I also made sure my Legacy connection was off, encryption was enforced and DL/UL was set to unlimited. Unfortunately none of these things helped. I was wondering if it could just be my modem?

Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic
Detailed test results giving the throughput per flow Glasnost runs:
All BitTorrent and control flow transfers using port 6881

Transfer Direction 	Bandwidth BitTorrent flow 	Bandwidth control flow
 
Download #1 	9438 Kbps 	9844 Kbps
Download #2 	10073 Kbps 	10085 Kbps
Download #3 	10052 Kbps 	9303 Kbps
 
Upload #1 	502 Kbps 	500 Kbps
Upload #2 	502 Kbps 	503 Kbps
Upload #3 	504 Kbps 	469 Kbps

 
All BitTorrent and control flow transfers using port 55240

Transfer Direction 	Bandwidth BitTorrent flow 	Bandwidth control flow
 
Download #1 	6999 Kbps 	9841 Kbps
Download #2 	10002 Kbps 	10075 Kbps
Download #3 	10118 Kbps 	10725 Kbps
 
Upload #1 	497 Kbps 	500 Kbps
Upload #2 	501 Kbps 	471 Kbps
Upload #3 	465 Kbps 	388 Kbps

 
BitTorrent transfers using port 6881 and port 55240

Transfer Direction 	Bandwidth Port 6881 	Bandwidth Port 55240
 
Download #1 	9438 Kbps 	6999 Kbps
Download #2 	10073 Kbps 	10002 Kbps
Download #3 	10052 Kbps 	10118 Kbps
 
Upload #1 	502 Kbps 	497 Kbps
Upload #2 	502 Kbps 	501 Kbps
Upload #3 	504 Kbps 	465 Kbps

 
Control flow transfers using port 6881 and port 55240

Transfer Direction 	Bandwidth Port 6881 	Bandwidth Port 55240
 
Download #1 	9844 Kbps 	9841 Kbps
Download #2 	10085 Kbps 	10075 Kbps
Download #3 	9303 Kbps 	10725 Kbps
 
Upload #1 	500 Kbps 	500 Kbps
Upload #2 	503 Kbps 	471 Kbps
Upload #3 	469 Kbps 	388 Kbps

[anon]

Have you tried a different client? What about searching your ISP's name + "shaping" in Google to see what people say about it?

[definedv]

Yes, I have tried both Vuze and UTorrent with identical results. A quick good search of "Distributel" reveals generally positive comments, no traffic shaping.

[fuzzy]

I don't think you've specified your normal speeds. It looks like it's not related to bittorrent as your normal ddl speeds seem to be the same.

[anon]

His theoretical connection speed seems to be ten times more what he's getting with BitTorrent (at least that's what I understood).

[The248]

Hey folks, I have a 15/0.5 mbs connection, often higher according to speedtest but I tend to max out torrenting at around 1.4/0.04mbs/. I generally use private trackers, but regardless of how many seeds I seem to hit at a maximum of 1.7mbs DL and 0.05 mbs UL at any given time. If I have more than one torrenting going at a time, the total DL speed adds to around 1.4-1.7mbs as well.

I was wondering if this is normal, or if there's anything that can be done to increase my speeds to speeds closer my cap. I am currently using a Thomson RCA modem and the latest UTorrent. I have maxium DL/UL cap configured at 12 & 0.4 Mbs respectively along with a maxiumum of 300 connections per torrent 1000 global. I don't believe I am being throttled either nor is any security/firewall blocking UTorrent.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I might be reading this wrong, if so ignore my post and my poor english.

You may be confusing MBits/s with MBytes/s, if your provider gives you 15 down and 0.5 up, on utorrent you will top 1.8 MBytes/s download speed and 0.06 MBytes/s (64 KB/s) upload speed at best.
It seems really close to what you reported seeing on uTorrent.

[cainly]

How many MB is 15 megabits?
1 megabit equals 0.125 megabytes, so 15 multiplied by 0.125 equals 1.875 megabytes.

Seems about right for your speeds.

The248 is right, generally your ISP will list your connection speed as MBits/s while all download clients with list it as MBytes/s. There is a difference.
1 byte = 8 bits. I think you are just confused between the terminology.

[anon]

How many MB is 15 megabits?

Divide by 8.

This megabit/byte thing causes frequent confusion, I hadn't thought about that.