UTorrent is sloooooooow

[TheHxckid]

Hi everyone!

I am currently busy downloading a rather big torrent file. I am on MWEB's uncapped 384 account and I am aware that they have started throttling the lines I think? Any ways I am not looking for high speeds but simply the 40kB/s download speed I usually get.

I was wondering if it was MWEB because on some torrents I get the full 384 line download speed and some drop to almost nothing like 0.1kB/s - 5kB/s. I don't know why this is happening, I've tried encrypting the download but no success.

I also am aware of the amount of seeds you need for a proper download. But the thing is on this torrent it shows:

Seeds - 22 (13272)
Peers - 6 (18144)

Surely that should be enough? I'm just wondering why it's going at such a slow pace.

Thanks

 

[Helghast]

Try torrentb****, I noticed that utorrent was very slow to me, then I move over to tb, i even compared a few torrents. tb is faster, well it is for me.

 

[copacetic]

You do realize this is a shaped account yeah? Which means expecting your full line speed is like some sort of fantastical dream?

My experience recently is a couple of kB/s during the day and into the twenties (hopefully) late at night.

 

[Pada]

Just use news servers instead. Torrents is a waste of bandwidth

I usually get my full 40kB/s from news.mweb.co.za, but don't expect that during office hours.

 

[TheHxckid]

I know it is shaped but why do some torrent work perfectly fine? and does it really throttle it so much to the point where the speed is only 1kB/s and less? I have let it go through the night and it didn't make a difference.

I am trying news servers now Pada. But still new to the whole business.
Using Grabit and downloading from news.mweb.co.za but now it's giving me an error:

Unable to connect to news.mweb.co.za:119 (Socket Error # 10060Connection timed out. )

It did download because it managed to download five 97mb files during the night, but i found my pc switched off for some reason and it was not scheduled to do so. So i am clueless as to why it's giving that error. Any help?

 

[clickme]

Im using another providers uncapped, and it may be my imagination but the times I use torrents it seems like there is a definite speed increase if there is one or 2 local peers.

 

[Necuno]

whats the sharing ratio ? you could have 100000000 peers and a ratio of 10.0 which will give you *** speeds for example.

 

[TheHxckid]

well I'm not exactly sure what you mean Prophet but i have these:

Seeds/Peers - 0.735
Ratio - 1.290
Availability - 34.998

At a speed of 3kB/s

 

[Necuno]

well I'm not exactly sure what you mean Prophet but i have these:

Seeds/Peers - 0.735
Ratio - 1.290
Availability - 34.998

At a speed of 3kB/s

well.... you could try this (also have a look at the links in the quote below):

downloaded this puppy yesterday and not sure if it really works on a shaped account but thought what the hell it's worth a try !

result :

dissapointing ! not much of a difference.

what do you guys think ?

get yourself a test secure vpn to UK/US. use that and see if it changes.

also you can try the following... it helps

http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuide/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ways-to-speed-up-torrent-downloads/

...three of the main things to note is
.1 use a different port than the set default one. make sure it is properly forwarded.
.2 set encryption to forced with legacy support.
.3 more connections per torrent and i would aslo say one torrent at time.

i do get better results using something like a tunneling/secure vpn service.

thought, note that tunneling/secure vpn services is against the TC of mweb nowadays and when i wrote that it was not so much of an issue due to the fact that there was not so many users doing that.