Bittorrent settings

entropy

Ok, most people here use bittorrent, and until recently I've had very little success with it. Now, finally, it wants to download at reasonable speeds. Same files, so I don't understand, either.

But here's my question. Like many P2P apps nowadays, it's ratio'd. But what is it? Where's the cutoff? If I set upload to 10 kB/s, I get crap downloads. If I set it to 30ish, things go good. I use ABC. So where is it, exactly?

Btw, what I do is tell the program to use '0' (unlimited) and use NetLimiter to limit it (because I have other apps I'd like limited running, so this is the smartest way to go). With say eDonkey, if I say unlimited in the program, but drop it to 5 kB/s with NetLimiter, it doesn't know the difference, and hence doesn't apply its Up/Down ratio. ABC isn't that dumb, apparently. Any ideas on where the sweet spot is?

EMT

I wish I had a straight answer to this one. It's possible that others know how much you're uploading at a given time and so they are more or less generous with their own upload bandwidth. Since there are so many BitTorrent clients it makes sense that the network limits leeching more than the clients.

Personally I seed most things 1:1 though.

TheBaron

On a broadband connection its not the Upload Speed or Download Speed especially that kills you, its the number of connections your'e able to make. I would recommend using Azureus or some second hand client. Change the config yourself. Your download WILL NOT be limited until you set your max upload speed to below 10. now then, I would say anywhere between 50-100 connections on download (depending on how badly you want to kill your connection, I usually leave mine at 50, have no probs) and 3 or 4 on upload. Having toyd with all these settings extensively, this is what works best for me

btw, 1-2 downloads only or it'll start raping your bandwidth

Jimborae

I'd use Bittornado (the old experimental client) as it's very easy to use & fully configurable. There are points to note though that may apply to the ABC client as well but i dont know for sure. The main one is that if you set the upload speed to unlimited you will get crap download speeds. Its a bug thats been know about for ages. I just set mine to dialup/isdn which limits the up load to about 5kb/s but I still get 170kb/s download. When I'm finished or not using the web I bump it up to the cable setting which gives about 40kb/s upload.

Also its usually a good idea to change the default port range that your client uses if you can, as some isp's & some torrent sites block/limit the default range for various reasons. Also I dont have more than a 10 ports open in my range.

Armo

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Best bittorrent client ive ever seen, mines set up for 17kb/s upload and ive maxed my down at about 250kb/s while uploading

if u want to use azureus u need to get java, but its a fantastic client that actually minimizes to the tray when u tell it to

Justin

I use bittornado with everyport I have open, usually get decent speeds, I guess I am leaving myself open but heY, it is P2p.

Thrax

1. Use a selection of 10 ports high in the unregulated range. 65111 to 65121 is a good choice. ISPs tend to throttle some of the most common bittorrent ranges at this point.

2. Port forwarding generally doesn't work well with Bittorrent. In my own experience, I simply get faster speeds every single time when I DMZ myself for the duration of my download.

3. Set your upload peers such that each person will get about 8-10 KB/s from you. For example, if you can upload at 50 KBs, set your upload peers to about 6.

4. I generally prefer ABC for a client since it allows a port range, but I'm quickly becoming fond of Azureus for its robust feature set.

5. Use all the upload bandwidth you can. It is ratio based. The more you upload, the faster you go.

With these settings, I regularly get 200-300 KB/s.

citrixmeta

i used ports 7881 to 7999. i forwarded them from the FW to my pc and omg what a big diff.

mmonnin

What drives me nuts most about ABC is that it does not limit my uploads to what I set it at. Its the worst when I first start it up. Then after awhile I can set it to 50k and it will stay at 30k but as soon as I say no limit it uses it all.