P2P (Bittorrent etc) configuration & use discussion...ongoing (Only place to post!)

ntlbell · 06-08-2008 4:49pm

unless it's a private tracker i couldn't give a hoot.

PogMoThoin · 06-08-2008 5:26pm

ntlbell wrote: »

unless it's a private tracker i couldn't give a hoot.

+1, I quit when done. Its handy having a dynamic ip

Jonathan · 06-08-2008 6:24pm

Another torrenter with a low ratio here too...

And WHAT has this got to do with windows???? :rolleyes:

MooseJam · 06-08-2008 6:31pm

well where should it go ? If everybody kept a low ratio nobody would ever get anything, you are only able to download because other people who don't share that view upload, I think it's only fair to aim for 1, plus it makes me feel good helping people out haha

Jonathan · 06-08-2008 6:34pm

I'd say net+comms.

You do that moosejam. Ill buy you a pint sometime :P

Capt'n Midnight · 06-08-2008 7:30pm

might be better suited here

1 would be great if you had symmetrical broadband, NTL try to throttle torrents, but do they try to throttle upstream too ?

kaimera · 06-08-2008 7:35pm

starting to ul more now that BT have bumped it to 1meg up and uncapped.

had to care before

sunnyman2 · 06-08-2008 7:43pm

i gotta ask,

im thinking of changing to upc,

mainly for torrents,

is it a good choice to get upc,

im in cork if that makes any difference

PogMoThoin · 06-08-2008 7:58pm

Yes, its ok for those Scandanavians with their symmetrical broadband to have a constant 1:1 ratio but I live in Ireland where this is impossible. I would love to, but i can't.

PAU · 06-08-2008 8:12pm

ntlbell wrote: »

unless it's a private tracker i couldn't give a hoot.

Agreed

Cabaal · 06-08-2008 8:24pm

Ideally 1:1,anything else and your a leech

Merging this thread with P2P discussion

Cabaal · 06-08-2008 8:27pm

Blindpew wrote: »

Well you are right but I couldn't get it to work right when I only opened certain ports. I have been downloading for years with all ports open and have never had any problems. Internet security blocks any interference.

To be honest the port range of 10000 - 60000.is just pointless. you don't need that kind of range forwarded

Something like 7000 - 7070 is MORE then enough

barnicles · 06-08-2008 10:55pm

some of my ratios are 0.000

Jonathan · 06-08-2008 11:17pm

barnicles wrote: »

some of my ratios are 0.000

Bet its cause of that eye sore website of yours

Blindpew · 07-08-2008 12:52am

Cabaal wrote: »

To be honest the port range of 10000 - 60000.is just pointless. you don't need that kind of range forwarded

Something like 7000 - 7070 is MORE then enough

Some bit torrent programs require the range to be above 10000 as far as I know. I never gave it much thought before, what are the advantages of only having certain ports open? I wouldn't want to be losing out on any speed.

Cabaal · 07-08-2008 9:04am

Blindpew wrote: »

Some bit torrent programs require the range to be above 10000 as far as I know. I never gave it much thought before, what are the advantages of only having certain ports open? I wouldn't want to be losing out on any speed.

You'll find any port restrictions are generally down to the tracker being used, for example alot of trackers won't allow users to use the commenly used ports as many ISP block them

Blindpew · 07-08-2008 9:23pm

Well I got the NTL 20mb today and managed to get the green light on utorrent just by forwarding the utorrent port. I must have made a mistake when I tried to do it on the d-link router. I find the upload speed the biggest difference, it's amazing to see a file uploading at over 100kb/s after years of watching them doing barely anything.

DECEiFER · 07-08-2008 9:28pm

Has anyone tried uTorrent 1.8 RC7 yet? I've given it a go, and it's all good. I like how it has included a tracker tab in the stats area. Very helpful.

Jonathan · 07-08-2008 9:29pm

DECEiFER wrote: »

Has anyone tried uTorrent 1.8 RC7 yet? I've given it a go, and it's all good. I like how it has included a tracker tab in the stats area. Very helpful.

Was kinda reluctant to try it. Is it stable?

DECEiFER · 07-08-2008 9:35pm

jmccrohan wrote: »

Was kinda reluctant to try it. Is it stable?

I doubt it's 100% stable yet, as it's still a release candidate,but so far, no crashes or any problems. I'd anticipate a stable release soon, though.

It's still worth a try.

Jonathan · 07-08-2008 9:42pm

DECEiFER wrote: »

I doubt it's 100% stable yet

I meant in your experience

WebUI support this version yet?

DECEiFER · 07-08-2008 9:53pm

jmccrohan wrote: »

I meant in your experience

WebUI support this version yet?

For me, no problems. It has been as stable as 1.7 so far. Haven't made use of Web UI, though. I say go for it!

Jonathan · 07-08-2008 10:00pm

The new status bar icon is pretty fugly

DECEiFER · 07-08-2008 10:11pm

jmccrohan wrote: »

The new status bar icon is pretty fugly

Oh, you mean the title bar? I agree, I prefer the old one. The icon is the same in the taskbar and systray, too. Can't be helped.

radiospan · 08-08-2008 6:17pm

Has anyone been able to connect to Soulseek on UPC / NTL?

I've my ports set up right, the port check on the Soulseek webpage says my TCP port is open like it should be, but the client doesn't connect.

I'm using the latest Soulseek 157 NS 13c version, but it didn't work with Soulseek 156 either.

kaimera · 08-08-2008 7:08pm

On 24mb BT profile [line will only take 22mb; synching @ 20/1]

On 7 torrents running yday I was hitting nigh on 900kb combined from one tracker site.

utorrent 1.8rc6.

thanks for the heads.up on rc7

Tim131 · 08-08-2008 8:34pm

DECEiFER wrote: »

For me, no problems. It has been as stable as 1.7 so far. Haven't made use of Web UI, though. I say go for it!

Yeah I can confirm 1.8 is running really well too

I've been using it a while now, and no problems what so ever...

corkstudent · 09-08-2008 1:11pm

I can't connec to DC++ on Chorus this is very frustrating.

*** An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine.

corkstudent · 09-08-2008 1:12pm

Ah got it you have to select "Direct Connection" there is no firewall.

EDIT: Nope, it only connects to some hubs, and can't search

ronrar · 09-08-2008 1:50pm

corkstudent wrote: »

I can't connec to DC++ on Chorus this is very frustrating.

*** An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine.

you got chorus bb? im thinking about changing in the next few days,

do you have any problems with them throttling torrents or are you getting full speeds?

MooseJam · 09-08-2008 2:54pm

So I was running all my torrents at the same time - like 15 to 20 of them on the go, down would be about 200kb and up would be 150kb or similar and I always found it would be next to impossible to surf, if torrents were running you couldn't browse, well just now I turned them all off except for two and while the up/down speed is the same I can browse just fine, it has no effect on browsing, it just must have been keeping open all those connections that was slowing the browsing and not the actual speed , so during the day i'll just run a couple and at night ill run em all, but the speed will be the same for both, cool

Calibos · 09-08-2008 4:48pm

MooseJam wrote: »

So I was running all my torrents at the same time - like 15 to 20 of them on the go, down would be about 200kb and up would be 150kb or similar and I always found it would be next to impossible to surf, if torrents were running you couldn't browse, well just now I turned them all off except for two and while the up/down speed is the same I can browse just fine, it has no effect on browsing, it just must have been keeping open all those connections that was slowing the browsing and not the actual speed , so during the day i'll just run a couple and at night ill run em all, but the speed will be the same for both, cool

I had the browsing problem last year. Then I read that my Router, the Netgear DG834G had problems with more than 100 simultaneous connections. Limited Max connections in torrent software to 90 and problem solved.

Tim131 · 09-08-2008 5:00pm

If you're having problems surfing whilst torrents are downoading, just give the torrents 80% of your bandwidth, then you have 20% of it to browse the web (which is more than enough for me)

To do this on uTorrent, right click one of the torrents being downloaded in uTorrent click "bandwidth allocation" then go to "set download limit" set it to about 250kb/s if you're on 3MB, and do the same for your upload.

Works for me

corkstudent · 09-08-2008 6:11pm

ronrar wrote: »

you got chorus bb? im thinking about changing in the next few days,

do you have any problems with them throttling torrents or are you getting full speeds?

Very slow speeds for Torrents

Port forwaring too...

I'll try it with a "fresh" torrent maybe and see what happens. But right now extremely slow.

PogMoThoin · 09-08-2008 6:28pm

MooseJam wrote: »

So I was running all my torrents at the same time - like 15 to 20 of them on the go, down would be about 200kb and up would be 150kb or similar and I always found it would be next to impossible to surf, if torrents were running you couldn't browse, well just now I turned them all off except for two and while the up/down speed is the same I can browse just fine, it has no effect on browsing, it just must have been keeping open all those connections that was slowing the browsing and not the actual speed , so during the day i'll just run a couple and at night ill run em all, but the speed will be the same for both, cool

Don't run too many torrents together, no matter what bandwidth you have. Aiming only to use 60% of your bandwidth will give you better download speeds and allow you to surf. A mistake people make is to upload too fast and fill bandwidth, set a limit of 7-10 KB/s on each torrent, 7-10 KB/s is enough to give you full speed. If you upload concurrently to too many people your connection and router will be swamped, and your downloads will slow again.

Here

corkstudent · 09-08-2008 9:04pm

Torrent speeds picked up since, 70-100 k each for 2 torrents. Not bad I guess.

kaimera · 10-08-2008 2:34am

anybody with utorrent 1.8 release or the rc7 getting this in the log

[2008-08-10 02:30:48]  UPnP: Could not map UPnP Port on this pass, retrying.

repeats a few times then fails and I get a yellow red connection light now.

port is fwd correctly and all on the router side. Wondering if it's something on BTs side?

werking fine today

Jonathan · 10-08-2008 8:50am

kaimera wrote: »
anybody with utorrent 1.8 or the rc2 getting this in the log
[2008-08-10 02:30:48]  UPnP: Could not map UPnP Port on this pass, retrying.
repeats a few times then fails and I get a yellow connection light. Up till tonight actually I had green.

port is fwd correctly and all. utorrent is now telling me that it's not open.

It is now up to rc7. That issue might have been fixed between rc2 and now.

Jonathan · 10-08-2008 10:51pm

FYI uTorrent 1.8 Stable has been released. :pac:

barnicles · 10-08-2008 11:27pm

jmccrohan wrote: »

FYI uTorrent 1.8 Stable has been released. :pac:

Thanks j

nohopengn · 11-08-2008 3:36pm

utorrent working fine on a SMART connection

corkstudent · 11-08-2008 9:02pm

No idea on DC++?

ayatollah · 12-08-2008 2:46pm

does anyone know where to get a SNIP.com invitation code?

i've been using SNIP but found a file on SNIP that i couldnt on SNIP!

or has anyone any suggestions of other torrent sites?

Cabaal · 12-08-2008 3:08pm

ayatollah, this isn't the place to ask for invite codes for sites that contain copyright material
Names/URL's removed!

Cabaal,

Jonathan · 12-08-2008 3:14pm

ayatollah wrote: »

does anyone know where to get a SNIP.com invitation code?

i've been using SNIP but found a file on SNIP that i couldnt on SNIP!

or has anyone any suggestions of other torrent sites?

Silly boy..

ayatollah · 12-08-2008 4:16pm

Sorry

My Bad.

ronrar · 12-08-2008 4:41pm

i was thinking about chaging to upc but after reading about them throttling torrents and the terrible speeds on torrents im not sure,

is it still worth changing to upc? im only running 1mb eircom atm but at least im getting full speeds,

i would be using it mainly for torrents,

so is there any other good isp`s that have good speeds and dont throttle?

Jonathan · 12-08-2008 4:51pm

BT if you live a LLU area..

Afaik magnet dont throttle either.

13-08-2008 12:14pm

I must be one of the lucky ones, i get 2.4 mb/s down on a wired connection with upc on all torrents, Only things i have done: Port forwarding, utorrent encryption, using sites that provide enough good peers to max out the connection.

@ronrar, what area are you in? The trend seems to be for some Dublin exchanges to be overloaded (or poorly routed). Anyone i know in the west and south has no issues getting the same speed as me. Friends in Cork, and galway all getting + or - 2mb/s

mrs.ljungberg · 13-08-2008 12:36pm

Im using utorrent and Im on ntl 20mb , im a bit confused in the settings box that comes up when you click the green tick down the end, should I put my upload or download speed in the box?
I also keep getting an error message'The process can not access the file as it is being used by another process'
Anyone know what that is?

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