Mynamewastaken Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Basicly I have a really cruddy upload rate in the neighborhood of 12-14KB realistically, isp rated at 128Kb. Bitcomet .7 will spread that whole 9KB of upload around to 15 users, so nobody get anything usable out of me. So is there a way to limit it to say 2? I know this connection sucks, but its free to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow_76 Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Basicly I have a really cruddy upload rate in the neighborhood of 12-14KB realistically, isp rated at 128Kb. Bitcomet .7 will spread that whole 9KB of upload around to 15 users, so nobody get anything usable out of me. So is there a way to limit it to say 2? I know this connection sucks, but its free to me. go to preferences, click on connections and there will be a setting for "global maximum upload slots" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 I will add that you are indeed getting your 128kb/s that your isp advertises. Measured in Bytes, this would be 16kB/s, and it would not be possible to seed 100% of your bandwidth, as some of it is used for comunication (overhead), so 14kB/s would be about as high as it goes. As long as you run only one torrent at a time, then you are doing your part the best you can, so don't feel bad about it. We have had members her reporting running dozens of torrents, and I recall one claiming to run over 100. If it was up to me, I would make all clients not about to start a second unless they have enough bandwidth to support it. Suspect ps. I am pleased to see someone that cares for what they upload... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynamewastaken Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 go to preferences, click on connections and there will be a setting for "global maximum upload slots" Doesn't seem to work, maybe its broken with this version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynamewastaken Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 I will add that you are indeed getting your 128kb/s that your isp advertises. Measured in Bytes, this would be 16kB/s, and it would not be possible to seed 100% of your bandwidth, as some of it is used for comunication (overhead), so 14kB/s would be about as high as it goes. As long as you run only one torrent at a time, then you are doing your part the best you can, so don't feel bad about it. We have had members her reporting running dozens of torrents, and I recall one claiming to run over 100. If it was up to me, I would make all clients not about to start a second unless they have enough bandwidth to support it. Suspect ps. I am pleased to see someone that cares for what they upload... :) :) Yeah most users could care less about uploads. I actually used to run a ftp way back, as well as a file server, but I had to shut it all down for numerous reasons, and my job kept it down for about 4 years. I'm just now getting into torrents, so I'm a little iffy on all the settings. I still have trouble remembering all the commands in windows. Yeah I only download 1 at a time, even though I'm never close to the limit of the download speed(around 74 KB) I don't remember the DL rating, maybe 768 /8 * 80%=76KB. I'd just rather see 2 people get the file then 10 give up cause they're getting 0KB from 10 people to total 2KB on a 3 Gig file. It be nice if it had a built in limit based on your upload bandwidth setting..... I suppose I could find an open source client and add that in, if I can figure out/remember how to do that kind of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 It would be very difficult to incorporate a bandwidth test into our client and have it all be automated. Its hard enough to get people to shut down their chat clients and inbox monitors when running a manual speed test, so doing an automated one would be problematic. I personally prefer to use "observed" max upload rather then a test site. This proceedure works quite well, but you need to test your upload under various conditions, and different torrents to figure what your max is under practicle conditions. However, this will give you a better starting point, then running a simple test of what conditions are for that very second, as there could be many factors that make tests inaccurate. Suspect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynamewastaken Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 Well it wouldn't have to be a bandwidth test, but more of a divider, say something like if upload.speed is < 28 then upload.speed / 4 = upload.users then do one for say 28-60 / 8, and > 60 / 10. Also something like users less than 2, then users = 2 It would be fairly easy to acomplish that way, and wouldn't require any speed test. That way it keeps people that have 100KB upload from putting max users to 1 so he doesn't have upload. Granted dividers would have to be played with, but it would be simple and effective. It was around 99 or 2k since I played around in C+, so yeah I know thats no where near the right form. A speed test would be great, but realistically theres just no way to make it accurate. Plus if you knew enough about it would be easy to screw with; like say uploading a file with another app during its test. As for observed speeds 14-76 both once, normal top speed 12-74. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassie Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Doesn't seem to work, maybe its broken with this version? Hi, I think that this is what scarecrow_76 was referring to: cassie :) PS - (This is just an example) You just have to click on the left-hand button (the striped one), to open the option box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynamewastaken Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 Yeah thats the one, It doesn't work. its been on 3 for days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitdave Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 This has been reported by many users in the past, myself included. It seems like Bitcomet's upload slot control does not work, at least not all the time. It is possible though that all those 0KB/s are just reporting the overhead of you talking to the peers, but if it is, then it should go away shortly and the 3 peers you capped it at should be able to get the bulk of your upload capacity. If you scroll to the right some more in that peers tab and look at the Status Flags column, look to see how many have the capital 'U' flag(not the lowercase 'u'), 'U' means that there is currently actual file data being uploaded. If you only see three at a time then the upload slot cap is indeed working. But even if it is, it seems like the overhead of talking to other peers is reducing too much upload capacity for peers you are actually uploading to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynamewastaken Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 Nope more then 3 cap U's. Hey what do ya make of this? Bitcomet also showed downloading when no torrents downloading. I'm wondering if I should reinstall it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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