Andre S. Veteran Posted March 8, 2012 Veteran Share Posted March 8, 2012 Without uTorrent on, testing my connection speed with speedtest.net, I get consistently 40-50ms ping and 4.30-4.70 Mbps in download. My ISP offers 5 Mbps so that's pretty much what I'm expecting. With uTorrent on, uploading about 35 KB/s total on 2 or 3 different torrents (and downloading nothing), I get widly varying results, but mostly very bad ones: pings from 75 to 300+ ms, download speeds from 0.80 to 3.00 Mbps. My question is whether this bad performance can be attributed to uTorrent somehow clogging the line even though it's apparently not doing much, or if my ISP is throttling me. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted March 8, 2012 Veteran Share Posted March 8, 2012 What's your upload speed? I find that maxing it out can kill your connection. If I upload at a speed from 30 to 60 KB/s, my download speed takes a hit as well. Sometimes, it's so bad that I have to let a YouTube video stream for five minutes or more. I use ?Torrent too and I find it helps to reduce your upload speed by at least 75%. Since my maximum upload speed is 64 KB/s, I limit it to 16 KB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted March 8, 2012 MVC Share Posted March 8, 2012 40 to 50ms ping is not very good to start with. Are you testing with a server in your area or one 1/4 way around the globe? But as stated comes down to what your upload pipe is, with only 5mbps down I would not expect your upload to be more than 1mbps tops, could even be as low as 256kb, etc. Which be about max for your 35KB up. As you use your pipes, then yeah latency is going to go up! As suggested limit your upload to % of your pipe. So without anything running do speedtest and what is your upload. Now set your torrents to not use say more than 25% of that. Your still going to higher latency times, but internet should work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted March 8, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes the server is automatically selected to be the one with lowest ping and they're all a few kilometers away from my home. Upload speed is max ~70KB/s, so following your suggestion I've lowered max upload speed to 17KB/s. It does make a big difference, now I get mostly good results on speedtest.net. Damn I didn't think using half of my upload bandwith was killing my connection so much. Even without uTorrent, my ping times are crap indeed. A ping on facebook.com just took 142ms on average. Twitter: 138ms. Google: 90ms. Sometimes they improve temporarily when I restart the modem, but they never get much better than those results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted March 9, 2012 MVC Share Posted March 9, 2012 40-50 is just terrible, what do you get to your ISP gateway directly? example PING 24.13.xxx.xxx (24.13.xxx.xxx): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 24.13.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=9.514 ms 64 bytes from 24.13.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=8.518 ms 64 bytes from 24.13.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=9.711 ms 64 bytes from 24.13.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=7.500 ms 64 bytes from 24.13.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=9.372 ms 64 bytes from 24.13.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=9.597 ms 64 bytes from 24.13.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=9.688 ms Here is more like what you should be seeing to a server close to you. Shoot I can pick a server 400 miles away and get those kinds of numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2xSilverKnight Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Try to enable the protocol encryption in options --> preferences --> BitTorrent Ently 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted March 9, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted March 9, 2012 Not sure what that is, is it what my modem reports as "IP Gateway"? When I try to ping that I get something absurd like 1000ms on average. I get more representative times pinging the "Primary DNS Server": 49ms on average. There's a switch between my computer and the modem but it doesn't make a difference whether I'm connected on it or directly on the modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2xSilverKnight Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Not sure what that is, is it what my modem reports as "IP Gateway"? When I try to ping that I get something absurd like 1000ms on average. I get more representative times pinging the "Primary DNS Server": 49ms on average. There's a switch between my computer and the modem but it doesn't make a difference whether I'm connected on it or directly on the modem. Try with protocol encryption enabled in the utorrent option/preference menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted March 9, 2012 MVC Share Posted March 9, 2012 WTF does pinging his gateway or something else have to do with a utorrent setting? But yes I would say that setting should be forced not just enabled. BTW - modems (modulator-demodulator) do not report anything of the sort, you mean your router? Modems sure change the connection type from say your phone line to ethernet in the case of the older dsl modems, they don't do natting or routing. Do you have a gateway (modem/router) or do you have 2 different devices? Now it seems most every dsl/adsl device they give you is really a gateway. There clearly seems to be a problem with nomenclature in the market. A modem does not do nat or routing, just connects you to your isp -- do you get a public IP when you connect to it or private. If private then clearly its dong nat and then its really a gateway. Pretty much today only time you see a normal modem is cable. Now if it connects you to your isp connection and ethernet and does NAT/Routing then it would be a gateway. If you have to have another device in front of it to connect to your isp, and your devices only does the nat and routing then its a router ;) Are you wireless or wired? Please post the model numbers of the devices between you and the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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