Torrents question

[Nerfherder]

I was looking at the stats on the torrents that I am downloading at the moment (Using uTorrent) and I see that my download speed has a very distinct pattern, the speed peaks at my max line speed and then drops down very low, then peaks again a little higher (like 10k) then shoots up to top speed again. I have set the measuring intervals to 1 hour so it means that all of this happens in the space of 1 hour.

Is this normal ? The torrents that I am downloading at the moment are all old, not a lot of seeds.

I want to try and limit the bandwidth as I think that this is causing the ups and downs, its like it gets too fast then has too many connections and drops all the seeds.

Oh and the uploads are pretty stable

 

[LazyLion]

does it to me on the BitTorrent Client as well, but my torrents still come through reasonably OK. I wouldn't bother about it much.

By the way uTorrent version 2 had been released.

 

[stevovo]

Speaking of too many connections, does windows xp sp3 fix the problem that xp had with its limited number of simultaneous connections?

 

[Looney]

I also have a question about torrents, why is it that when I download using torrents my downloads all max out at around 410KB/s but if I download thru HTTP the downloads go as high as 500KB/s. Why is torrents limiting me to that +-100KB/s?

 

[Nerfherder]

I also have a question about torrents, why is it that when I download using torrents my downloads all max out at around 410KB/s but if I download thru HTTP the downloads go as high as 500KB/s. Why is torrents limiting me to that +-100KB/s?

I think it uses that bandwidth for communication, like talking to the trackers etc

 

[stevovo]

I think it uses that bandwidth for communication, like talking to the trackers etc

That would make sense as an http download is a continuous stream of data where as torrent you need to request lots of different pieces from different peers