Torrents

[Andy70]

Why are my torrent speeds fluctuating so badly? One second i've a 300kbps+, next i've 65kbps?? 

The seeds and peers stay the same but my speeds are up and down like a rollercoaster!
I use UTorrent, previously used Azureus with no issues.

Help?!!!!

[cavillas]

Could be the heavy rain and winds.

[Andy70]

Could be the heavy rain and winds.

[Malc]

 Hope this helps

Open options, under BitTorrent
Protocol Encryption: set to Forced, and check Allow Incoming Legacy connections.

Make sure DHT is unchecked, as some sites block DHT.

Set No of connections lower, rather than higher, mine are 100, 70 ,25

[Simon]

A lot of it's to do with the actual torrent, rather than the client or the ISP, but you know that, Andy. 

Malc, I'm not convinced that Andy should have encryption enabled at all.  I thought that was mainly a workaround if you were using an ISP that blocked P2P ports?  Given that IDNet don't block ports, would it be worth trying with encryption off?

[Malc]

I thought if the people you were leeching of had it enabled, and you didn't , then you can't connect to them, but I'm open to be educated

[Simon]

Me too, Malc.  This, from the uTorrent FAQs might clarify to some extent:

Enabling Protocol Encryption

Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are actively interfering with p2p activities in order to reduce their bandwidth requirements. This causes µTorrent and other file sharing download speeds to become slow. To avoid this, µTorrent and other clients have introduced an encryption protocol to prevent ISPs from identifying BitTorrent traffic.

    * Go to Options > Preferences > BitTorrent. Set Outgoing under Protocol Encryption to Enable, check "Allow incoming legacy connections".

Some ISPs have extremely aggressive throttling methods and for those users it might be necessary to set outgoing to Forced; however this will greatly reduce the number of peers you can connect to. Enable is sufficient for most users.

[somanyholes]

1/2 open tcp connections make a big difference

http://torrentfreak.com/optimize-your-BitTorrent-download-speed/

i use bittyrant for open trackers, makes a big difference to, you want dht enabled for open trackers and dht off for closed, i use utorrent for closed and bityrant for open, helps to not get banned for, the closed ones

[anz1066]

maybe the people you are seeding from are having problems, and their speed is fluctuating.
i use utorrent sometimes and mine does a similar thing.

[TheMonkey]

Hi Andy,

The only reason i can think of is the people you're downloading off are disconnecting their internet.
You will probably, out of all the seeds, only have about 5 that are giving you a high download rate.

Other things may be your firewall getting in the way? (This is most likely)

I'm assuming you have the green tick at the bottom of Utorrent and your ports are forwarded?

Make sure you have your speeds right too. click on the tick at the bottom and it should bring up a box. make sure you have your settings set to what your line can cope with. (should be xx/384kb/s) should be about right, Utorrent will work the rest out.

Is it a problem with all torrents?

[mrapoc]

Test it with an openoffice torrent

Should go flat out