Bittorents Hoggin all my bandwith

How many connections should i put?

I think you're just maxing out your connection. For every data packet downloaded one needs to be sent back and then that data packet needs to be acknowledged that it wasn't fragmented.

Basically you probably have your download and upload speeds set too high and so you're flooding your connection. Because to upload a packet the reverse process I described above happens. It's called a 3-way handshake.

In Bit Torrent two protocols are used TCP (well TCP is used in web surfing and many other things too, that's what TCP/IP is all about) and UDP. TCP to talk to clients and udp to talk to the tracker. So data has to be sent to both
to establish connections between you and other seeders and peers.

Read these on how it works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissi ... l_Protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol

Anyway. In order to surf the web you should set your download and upload bandwidth a little lower. You can either do this in the Bit Torrent program you're using or you can use a bandwidth control program like NetLimiter.

NetLimiter is great. You can use it to control how much every single application on your computer is allowed in download and upload bandwidth.

How much bandwidth you allow for web surfing and other things is up to you. It's best first to work out your max theoretical speed which will help you work out your true internet speeds and go from there.

My connection is a 512/128 (remember line speeds are in bits not bytes) connection so that means my max theoretical speeds are 64 kilobytes/ps down and 16 kilobytes/ps up.
You work it out with google calculator.. goto google and type your down speed in kilobits or megabits like this:
512 kilobits to kilobytes : http://www.google.com/search?q=512%20ki ... 0kilobytes
Google responds with 512 kilobits = 64 kilobytes
And for upload
128 kilobits to kilobytes:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... tnG=Search
128 kilobits = 16 kilobytes

I've never gotten constant speeds of 64/16 and never will.
Now to work out your true internet speed you can either use an bandwidth tester:
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
or
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
Then do what I did with google above in it to work out your true speed. Or just download something and watch what the maximum download and upload speeds stay constant for the longest time and you'll know.

Of course with downloading from http or ftp you download heaps faster than from Bit Torrent but you're setting it up for Bit Torrent not http or ftp downloading.

I know that the max I can get down is 54 and the best I can get up is 13 so my true internet speeds are
54/13 this is what we need to figure out how much b/w to allow for web surfing. I think 45 to 50kb/s is enough for download speed and 9-10 is enough for upload speed. So I usually set my download and up speeds to 50/9 49/9 would probably be best , hell sometimes I keep it out 45 down. Depends how eager I am to get the file. So 49/9 allows for 5kb/s of download speed free for web surfing and 4kb/s free upload speed for web surfing. Remember the 3-way handshake?

If I had a really good connection I would leave at least 10-20kb/s both up and down for web surfing , email , etc.. cause with that you can download setup files for programs and other stuff. It's heaps of speed for web surfing.

Hope this helps.

Hey thanks for all the information...

I read a article on Utorrent FAQ, they talk bout a problem the Linksys Router has..



Special note for users with Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS routers, there are severe problems with them when running any P2P app (read for fix)

The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for one) have a severe problem where they track old connections for FIVE days, which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates.

Linksys has yet to address this issue, but there is a fix. If you use alternative firmware, you can put in a start-up script to fix this problem.



So seems that i would have to get other firmware that was posted on that site as well, the firmware and script suposedly fix this issue and gives you alot of new features not included on the Linksys Firmware...hmmm



I did the test and got this:
Your download speed : 1938 kbps or 242.3 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 497 kbps or 62.2 KB/sec.

(Thats on my Laptop Wirelessly) if i do a test on the Desktop, my download speed is doubled.

Also when you get sums like 1938kbps, you dived it by 8 and you get it on KB/s

It seems unnormal,i think.It's possible that your router is having problems having multiple connections.