Chris Stevens

"Sean Black" <sean@bucks-aggs.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:d8oHr+GrbUVGFwr9@bucks-aggs.demon.co.uk...
> >>> How do I get more seedage? I've got everything set up fine, ports
> >>>are open on router, it's downloading at a paltry 30k on an 8MB
> >>>fastish connection (get HTTP downloads at 700-800k), which I'm
> >>>putting down to the fact that I'm picking up from one seed,
> >>>occasionally 2, out of an available 588. It's been going for over an
> >>>hour. What am I doing wrong? Same thing happens with Azureus (what
> >>>I'm currently using), uTorrent and Acquisition.
> >>>
> >> Could be any number of things but one thing to check is your upload
> >>speed is not set to unlimited, I have mine set to about 15kbs upload
> >>otherwise it kills your download speeds completely.
> >
> >Well I have a green smiley man, so it's not NAT, and I've just set my
> >upload speed is set to 30k which has bumped my DL up to about 70-80,
> >but that's still 1/10th my HTTP speed. Why is it only connecting to 1
> >seed from 616??
>
> Are you allowing enough connections? In Utorrent you can adjust the
> number of connections you allow.
>
> When I'm downloading stuff, if there are a lot of seeds and peers, it
> only tends to connect to a small number of seeds but a lot of peers.

There's not necessarily any advantage in connecting to seeds rather than
peers, though, is there? Your client and the clients of others in the swarm
make a variety of decisions about the most efficient way to share and
retrieve the data. You can't second guess whether having connections to lots
of seeds is a 'better' thing. If it can get all of the data from a large
number of peers, and they all have better connections than the seed(s), then
technically you'd never want/need to attach to a seed at all.

> You could try stopping and starting the torrent, sometimes that makes a
> difference.

Probably counter-productive. My experience is that performance increases the
longer a torrent has been running (and it has built up a lot of connections,
and has more information about their speeds, etc).

A small disclaimer - I don't have real, detailed technical knowledge about
the finer workings of bittorrent clients, and all of the above is based on
experience and odd scraps of information (that may all be innaccurate).


Chris.

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