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

DeepBlue · 15-12-2014 2:48pm

livEwirE wrote: »

I'm on 200/20 upc package and have noticed over the last 48 hours huge drops in download speeds from a private tracker I regularly use.

Some private trackers are getting hit quite a lot with DDOS attacks. Have you tested with other trackers?

livEwirE · 15-12-2014 11:28pm

DeepBlue wrote: »

Some private trackers are getting hit quite a lot with DDOS attacks. Have you tested with other trackers?

Speeds seem to be improving today maybe it was a temporary glitch. I'm sure if upc were shaping traffic there would be widespread coverage here.

doubie · 04-01-2015 3:54pm

I'm looking for some help speeding up my torrents. I'm on 7mb eircom, using a netopia router and on my laptop I generally use the wireless connection.

Since my upgrade to 7mb broadband (from 3mb) I've seen an increase to 400kb/s download, maximum, but it's not always that high.

Is there any way to improve this without changing provider?

srsly78 · 04-01-2015 4:02pm

First do a speedtest and see what your actual speed is. Do this test via cable not via wifi first. Then do it via wifi to see if that is causing slowdown.

ED E · 04-01-2015 4:19pm

doubie wrote: »

I'm looking for some help speeding up my torrents. I'm on 7mb eircom, using a netopia router and on my laptop I generally use the wireless connection.

Since my upgrade to 7mb broadband (from 3mb) I've seen an increase to 400kb/s download, maximum, but it's not always that high.

Is there any way to improve this without changing provider?

400KB/s is 3.2Mbps, about half your connection. As you're on a 7Mb package now you're probably on a rural exchange. Try download a *well* seeded torrent at 3AM. Should go up to almost 700KB/s.

Calibos · 04-01-2015 6:20pm

doubie wrote: »

I'm looking for some help speeding up my torrents. I'm on 7mb eircom, using a netopia router and on my laptop I generally use the wireless connection.

Since my upgrade to 7mb broadband (from 3mb) I've seen an increase to 400kb/s download, maximum, but it's not always that high.

Is there any way to improve this without changing provider?

Looks at torrent downloading at 9 Megabytes per second.......Looks at UPC modem.....start humming to myself...."Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna turn around and desert you!!" :eek:

briany · 07-02-2015 7:42pm

TPB has been back up since the end of Jan. On the old .se domain and all, yet Eircom are blocking it no more, seemingly. Weird, that.

_Whimsical_ · 08-02-2015 12:13am

There is quite a bit of speculation that the site is a honeypot engineered to snare us into giving them our IPs and download record.

jamo2oo9 · 08-02-2015 12:20am

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

There is quite a bit of speculation that the site is a honeypot engineered to snare us into giving them our IPs and download record.

Rumour of that has been going around. Frankly, it's rather bullshít as what are they gonna do to us about our downloading record? Nothing. There's no law that states that we can be arrested for illegally downloading movies on the torrenting websites.

It is illegal to pirate stuff so that's a different case all together but LE are wasting their time running TPB imo

AlanS181824 · 08-02-2015 7:07pm

I don't think there's much they can do about an Irish user pirating really.

Patty O Furniture · 08-02-2015 9:58pm

Let me know if i've gotten this wrong on here, but what could be the cause of RSS Feeds that were automatically d/loading & now most aren't d/loading now

andaman · 24-02-2015 11:19pm

Recently got fibre with eircom and done a bit of heavy downloading and feel like im being throttled now.I assume all providers will throttle if u download too much,but does anyone know is one better than the other i,m cancelling this contract anway not much point paying for fibre when you aren't allowed use it is there?

degsie · 24-02-2015 11:55pm

andaman wrote: »

i,m cancelling this contract anway not much point paying for fibre when you aren't allowed abuse it is there?

fyp

Oat23 · 05-03-2015 9:53pm

Anyone else on UPC having lots of issues with crashes in uTorrent since the last speed update?

Can't seem to sort it. Whenever the speed reaches 25MB/s the memory usage starts to skyrocket until it reaches the limit at 1800MB, then uTorrent crashes. It doesn't happen when I download to an SSD, only when I am downloading to a HDD. If I set the disk cache to default, then it says 'Disk Overloaded 100%' and the speed drops to zero. Is there another torrent program where this isn't an issue?

srsly78 · 06-03-2015 12:44am

People still use uTorrent?

Patty O Furniture · 06-03-2015 1:12am

srsly78 wrote: »

People still use uTorrent?

What other one is there? as i've only ever known that one afaik

srsly78 · 06-03-2015 1:19am

Many people stopped using utorrent when they put ads into it, it's basically malware now tbh. I use a client called transmission, there are many to choose from.

DeepBlue · 06-03-2015 1:35am

Transmission used to be mainly for Mac OSX and Linux. Is there a Windows version that works well?

Deluge is an alternative to uTorrent that should work ok. It's available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

http://deluge-torrent.org/

Gadgetman496 · 06-03-2015 1:48am

QBittorrent is another free bloat free cross-platform

Patty O Furniture · 06-03-2015 3:18am

srsly78 wrote: »

Many people stopped using utorrent when they put ads into it, it's basically malware now tbh. I use a client called transmission, there are many to choose from.

I came across a tip one time to stop the ads, deep in the settings.

I haven't noticed any malware yet,
But i have noticed the RSS feeds some have stopped for some reason & when you d/load them, it stalls until you restart it a few times:(

Oat23 · 06-03-2015 11:34pm

The only thing I have in my uTorrent is an ad at the top and an ad in the bottom left corner. It never bothered me so I never changed. I also have about 2TB of torrent files that I'd have to move over and I was too lazy

But I've just come across this on reddit and I'm making the change tonight.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2893982/utorrent-quietly-installs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-on-users-computers.html

Patty O Furniture · 07-03-2015 4:06am

Oat23 wrote: »

The only thing I have in my uTorrent is an ad at the top and an ad in the bottom left corner. It never bothered me so I never changed. I also have about 2TB of torrent files that I'd have to move over and I was too lazy

But I've just come across this on reddit and I'm making the change tonight.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2893982/utorrent-quietly-installs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-on-users-computers.html

How do you know its installed?
I must check again, what version i have, as a poster said:
Get 2.21 it is generally accepted as the last great problem

degsie · 07-03-2015 9:02am

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Get 2.21 it is generally accepted as the last great problem

Patty O Furniture · 08-03-2015 3:44am

degsie wrote: »

moonboy52 · 08-03-2015 2:43pm

The general consensus is to use uTorrent 2.2.1.

You would want to be careful with newer versions as they bundle in Conduit PUP

Patty O Furniture · 09-03-2015 4:25am

moonboy52 wrote: »

The general consensus is to use uTorrent 2.2.1.

You would want to be careful with newer versions as they bundle in Conduit PUP

Thanks, i'll have a look to see which one i have tomoro.
I'm pretty sure i got that tip on the ads in torrentfreak, along with rss feeds.

SachaJ · 27-03-2015 8:50am

Can anyone recommend a speedy VPN with USA connections? PIA only gives me 3.5 meg from my constant 80 meg connection with Vodafone.

UrbanFret · 30-03-2015 8:14pm

SachaJ wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a speedy VPN with USA connections? PIA only gives me 3.5 meg from my constant 80 meg connection with Vodafone.

Try the free 14 day trial here.I have only a 7 meg connection but I don't lose any !

Patty O Furniture · 20-08-2015 2:34am

moonboy52 wrote: »

The general consensus is to use uTorrent 2.2.1.

You would want to be careful with newer versions as they bundle in Conduit PUP

I haven't been on here/boards for as often as i like, & never got around to getting that 2.2.1. version, as it's slowing/freezing the laptop down & have to restart it :mad:

Btw: if i can ask here, if possible, but what has happened to kickassunblock? it's taken a long time to load or is under attack?

Thanks.

Patty O Furniture · 21-08-2015 1:57am

Btw: i forgot to ask, if you install 2.2.1. over existing, will it overwrite/delete any settings?

Thanks.

TheDoc · 27-08-2015 11:15am

I dumped utrorent a while back. Moved to deluge.

HAve it running on my HTPC as a daemon service. It's lightweight and works well, and definitely more stable that utorrent. utorrent started to get heavy in terms of resource use and as mentioned previously started to pack malware into its latest releases.

Personally won't be going back to it.

Although I've migrated to mostly newsgroups the last two years.

Cantona's Collars · 05-09-2015 7:08pm

moonboy52 wrote: »

The general consensus is to use uTorrent 2.2.1.

You would want to be careful with newer versions as they bundle in Conduit PUP

I just checked my version,it's 2.02.I refuse to update it but I might try deluge as Doc recommended.

rai555 · 08-02-2016 8:37am

Did i get it right - every provider throttles torent downloads, particularly on speedy connections ? Been with sky upto 24mb/ real speed for speedtest was about 8, had about 5-6 mb speed for torrents. Moved house and got virginmedia, speedtest 230 vired, torrents not moving at all, tried 2 programs - deluge and utorrent. Only 200 kb using vpn client. What's the story here ?

degsie · 08-02-2016 2:41pm

rai555 wrote: »

Did i get it right - every provider throttles torent downloads, particularly on speedy connections ? Been with sky upto 24mg/ real speed for speedtest was about 8, had about 5-6 gb speed for torrents. Moved house and got virginmedia, speedtest 230 vired, torrents not moving at all, tried 2 programs - deluge and utorrent. Only 200mg using vpn client. What's the story here ?

srsly? 5-6 gigabit?

rai555 · 08-02-2016 10:57pm

degsie wrote: »

srsly? 5-6 gigabit?

no, i just messed up speeds completely

degsie · 09-02-2016 8:46pm

rai555 wrote: »

no, i just messed up speeds completely

fixed, I see

Terry · 30-03-2016 8:18am

I got the new Virgin Media hub with 360/36 the other day, and I'm fairy certain they're throttling torrents.

I previously had the technicolour modem/router with 120/12, and had no problems. While it didn't always happen, I did see speeds of 14.1 MB/s down, and 1.3 MB/s up. Not always, but never far off.

The download speed with the VM hub is not too bad on a well seeded torrent. It'll hit 15 MB/s down, but it's usually between 4 and 7.
The upload speed is where the real problem exists. It's struggling to hit 80 KB/s. That's Eircom DSL upload speed.

Note that I'm connected through a Cat 6 cable.
Anyone else experience this?

Speed test result:

Basic download:

Gadgetman496 · 30-03-2016 9:07am

Terry wrote: »

I got the new Virgin Media hub with 360/36 the other day, and I'm fairy certain they're throttling torrents.

You can test if they are HERE:

ED E · 30-03-2016 10:01am

Tenner says you're not connectable so you're only seeding to a tiny minority.

Terry · 30-03-2016 4:12pm

Appears I was wrong.
I switched from µTorrent to qBittorrent, and seeded almost 17 GB in 4 hours.

degsie · 30-03-2016 4:13pm

Terry wrote: »

Appears I was wrong.
I switched from µTorrent to qBittorrent, and seeded almost 17 GB in 4 hours.

You owe ED E some cash!

Terry · 30-03-2016 4:58pm

degsie wrote: »

You owe ED E some cash!

It's in the post.

hegocork · 04-04-2016 9:34am

sorry if this question has been asked but after 107 pages cant really check all ...

i use utorrent and a privite site -TL. Im not overly savy with the settings and set up as it was sorted for me by someone else and so not sure where to check the following.
I would like to seed up more but have noticed in utorrent that I dont appear to be sharing up unless I am downloading at the same time so I asume my PC is closing the door so to speak when not downloading and doesnt allow uploading .

Anyone got a suggestion on what to check

thanks

degsie · 04-04-2016 10:15am

hegocork wrote: »

sorry if this question has been asked but after 107 pages cant really check all ...

i use utorrent and a privite site -TL. Im not overly savy with the settings and set up as it was sorted for me by someone else and so not sure where to check the following.
I would like to seed up more but have noticed in utorrent that I dont appear to be sharing up unless I am downloading at the same time so I asume my PC is closing the door so to speak when not downloading and doesnt allow uploading .

Anyone got a suggestion on what to check

thanks

Check that you are 'connectable'.

hegocork · 04-04-2016 10:18am

thanks degsie , will check when i get home , where exactly should i find this setting ?

degsie · 04-04-2016 10:33am

hegocork wrote: »

thanks degsie , will check when i get home , where exactly should i find this setting ?

Find out which port uT is using and go to canyouseeme.org to find out if that port is open.

eirman · 04-04-2016 12:38pm

My service was disconnected by my ISP without warning following one complaint by a big media company.

I signed up to PIA VPN and ran all the test torrents / IP / DNS Leak tests and I reckon that I'm good go.

However .....

I'm still very wary of resuming torrents.
I'd love someone out there to monitor a torrent while I'm downloading it and check my visible IP.

This would would any torrent of your choosing.
A torrent with a small number of leechers would be best.

Pmail if you're willing to help. Thanks

ED E · 04-04-2016 7:44pm

Strike = illegal = not allowed on boards.

kleefarr · 05-05-2016 9:21am

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

You can test if they are HERE:

Looks like this could be useful.
I suspect that Vodafone are shaping my video streaming services, netflix etc.
strange how it only started to happen after declining their offer of their Vodafone TV package a few weeks ago.

Their must be some broken agreements/law if they are doing so surely?

Must say that problems only occur around 4pm until next morning.

ED E · 05-05-2016 9:57am

kleefarr wrote: »

Looks like this could be useful.
I suspect that Vodafone are shaping my video....

Their must be some broken agreements/law if they are doing so surely?

They arent shaping, it just busy transit. Think of it like this: A busy motorway vs the police shutting down a lane.

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