uTorrent speed is low when DLing multiple torrents :(

[DarkAngel]

I put on 7 torrents and went to sleep in the night. But when I woke up in the morning the avg. DL speed of all the torrents combined was only ~17KBps!
I am on BSNL 500C and the speeds are usually in the 190-200KBps range. I stopped all the torrents except one and it hit 195KBps!
Cant sit up whole night to put make sure i download them one or two at a time. Will using multiple torrent clients at a time solve the issue?

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992

Which step to follow in this? If anyone else have faced this issue and resolved this successfully please do chip in.

 

[Sanav3]

You can set the maximum number of active torrents to 2, it would start downloading the third one after completion of atleast one torrent

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[DarkAngel]

^ You mean limiting max. no of active downloads to 2? Because active torrent means upload or download, right?

 

[Rahul++]

^ You mean limiting max. no of active downloads to 2? Because active torrent means upload or download, right?

Yes.. Maximum number of active downloads will keep the number of torrents active. When certain torrents are downloaded. The next torrents present in queue will start downloading.

Never keep more than 4 torrents for download in parallel. Always set it to 2 or 3.

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[xplodee]

Yes that and don't forget to tick "Auto-shutdown when download complete's"

 

[DarkAngel]

^Yup guess the no.of parallel DL was the culprit. Usually i keep it 2-3. Today was the first time i tried 7 in parallel. Guess epic fail. Was expecting all of them to be over by morning but nothing had finished.

Set the current DL to 1 and current active to 8. Will try tomorrow and report back here. Thanks guys

 

[boogeyman]

But make sure that you have "started" all 8 so the queue is formed. The remaining 7 will show status as "Queued". Once the 1st one finishes, the next one in the queue will start.

 

[asingh]

Use the queue system. But the max throughput you mentioned for a single file, does that correlate fine with your ISP plan..? Also check if the ports are open and you have PEX and DHT off -- if using PTs.

 

[singenaadam]

Set the 'maximum number of active downloads' to two.

Sometimes due to whatever reason speed on one falls, the 2nd one will make up the available bandwidth.

Put the rest in 'queue' & as mentioned above, don't forget to 'start' all of them.

 

[Prophet]

You can use FlashGet also. I was using µTorrent before but when I found FlashGet gives more speed in multiple downloads than I replaced µTorrent with it.

 

[DarkAngel]

Guys i know they must be started so that they are in queue

Use the queue system. But the max throughput you mentioned for a single file, does that correlate fine with your ISP plan..? Also check if the ports are open and you have PEX and DHT off -- if using PTs.

Yup. BSNL upto 2Mbps 500C plan. With one or two torrents with decent seeds i get 190KBps-200KBps which is near max i guess for this plan.

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You can use FlashGet also. I was using µTorrent before but when I found FlashGet gives more speed in multiple downloads than I replaced µTorrent with it.

Will try this out after current DLs complete. Thanks for the tip.

 

[DarkAngel]

Apologies for the ultra late update. Torrent DL is in full blast with average speeds of ~190kBps-200kBps with one or two torrents active.