utorrent

When I download a torrent with utorrent it downloads and stuff fine but I think it goes slower 'cause of the upload speed thingie. I have no idea what it does, and how am I uploading something when I'm downloading something ??? Also how do I make it stop uploading or whatever it's doing?
Sorry if I'm not making much sense.

you can't make it stop uploading, the entire concept of bittorrent is that you upload at the same time as you download, since if no-one uploaded no one would be able to download either. You can limit the upload speed in options, you want to set the limit to 80% of your connection upload speed.

Yeah, I have to set mine to 75 kb/s max because my ISP limits download speed if I upload at max speed. To change it just right-click on where it says how fast you're uploading and pick the number that's 80% of your max upload speed.

Replying to #3

I doubt it, its probably just your line saturating and slowing the download.

Loonylion · #2you can't make it stop uploading, the entire concept of bittorrent is that you upload at the same time as you download, since if no-one uploaded no one would be able to download either. You can limit the upload speed in options, you want to set the limit to 80% of your connection upload speed.

How do I find out my connection upload speed?

www.speedtest.net. Make sure you close utorrent first.

Almo has a fantastic torrent tutorial in the "tutorials section" that can be found here:
https://www.romulation.org/forum/index.php?topic=10664.0Teaches you everything about Torrents. Well done Almo.

What's 80% of 0.15 MB?

does the content of the files will corrupt if i 'stop' it and then 'resume' it?

Replying to #9

no you can start and stop it as much as you likeand @diskjocki have you forwarded your ports as utorrent can be slow unless you do

then why the size of the file won't change?
but the percentages are increased?

80% of 0.15 is about 10-12KB/sThe file is probably preallocated, this means space equal to the total size of what you are downloading is filled up with rubbish data, which gets overwritten as the real data is downloaded.

Then..
does that mean it was re-started again?!

no, it resumes where it left off.

Replying to #14

as long as there are are seeds...

I thought it was restarted..right now,it was 83.7%...
I will never use it again if the file is corrupted....

Replying to #16

the bittorrent protocol is immune to corruption unless the original file was corrupt.

equitypetey · #10no you can start and stop it as much as you likeand @diskjocki have you forwarded your ports as utorrent can be slow unless you do

Forward ports? I thought you only had to do that if you have a router, which I don't have.

are you on dial up then?

Replying to #19

No I'm using broadband, I don't have a phone line, and my modem's on the roof :S