Not all the bandwidth used is employed in the task

[Birosso]

I noticed that my torrent downloads lately havent been reaching their full speed (They almost always do since my speed is only 105 kb/second). But my bandwidth is still 100% used. So, I used a program that shows the consumption of bandwidth by each individual program running, and BitComet WAS taking all 100% of my bandwidth, yet only 75%-80% of that consumption goes towards downloading the actual task( sometimes its 90%) This has never happened before, issue only appeared recently. What could have gone wrong?!

P.S Upload speeds are at normal rates

Bitcomet version: 1.27 stable

Internet connection: ADSL 1mbps

Router Dlink (Port is forwarded, tested and open)

Windows: XP Firewall:Sygate

Edited September 27, 2011 by Birosso (see edit history)

[greywizard]

Actually, you have to manually limit the upload bandwidth of BitComet at 80% of the tested upload speed of your connection in order to keep your client from hogging all the upload pipe.

There will always be a certain amount of bandwidth used for protocol overhead (BT, DHT, LTS), both directions (upload and download). That's unavoidable.

So, it's not at all abnormal to not reach the "theoretical" maximum.

You're not being very clear where from where you came up with the 105KB/s.

Furthermore, if your client is downloading through eMule, part of the task, that bandwidth isn't added to what's being displayed into the main window.

[Birosso]

Emule is turned off, 105kbps is my max line speed (advertised is 1mbps) And the upload bandwidth IS already limited at 80% of my tested upload speed

Edited September 27, 2011 by Birosso (see edit history)

[The UnUsual Suspect]

1mb/s equals 1000kbs, or about 125kBs. If you don't use the proper units, it will confuse those trying to understand what your trying to say.

With a slow connection, try disabling all the services, this will reduce overhead. You might want to disable ltseed too. It's job is to get you faster download, but if it negotiates to get you 1000kB/s and you can onnly use 100kB/s, you only wasted a lot of overhead and you very well could have maxed out your connection without it.

I'd also disable dht on tasks that don't need it.

This should help on most popular tasks.

[Birosso]

I apologise about the confusion, and thank you for the tips. I'll have to test those configurations for a while, I'll post my results later here.