Minimum Speed/Ratio for Torrent to Download in Utorrent?

[-ZEEBEE-]

Hi,

If you have a long que of torrents, is it possible to make Utorrent only download when there is a certain seed ratio or something? So a torrent won't use a space in the que to download reeally slowly from a torrent with no seeds. I mean, it will have to be half running to decide this, but could it just not download unless its above a certain amont, and go to the next torrent?

Thanks.

-ZEEBEE-

[Adapa]

By default, if a torrent is uploading or downloading at less than 1kB/s, it's not counted as being active when calculating which queued torrents to start. [it, if you have configured uTorrent to download 3 torrents, and one of them is downloading at 0.5kB/s, it will start downloading a 4th torrent.]

You can change the threshold under Options, Preferences, Advanced, queue.slow_dl_threshold and queue.slow_ul_threshold. The values are entered in Bytes per second.

[-ZEEBEE-]

Ok brilliant. Thanks.

And one more question:

Is it possible to make Utorrent always my total download speed where possible? So rather than starting a set number of torrents in the que, just download however many torrents it takes (depending of ratios etc) to utilise all my download speed.

Thanks again.

[Adapa]

That isn't possible. That's not a uTorrent limitation though, it just isn't something that could be done, since download speeds even on a given torrent fluctuate, often wildly, on a second-by-second basis.

[-ZEEBEE-]

Ok thanks.

[Mothergoose729]

Uttorrent does a pretty good job of utilizing at least 80% of your bandwidth. It is often most efficient when you are either all uploading, or all downloading, sometimes at the same time some resources can be lost. When you get a ping from a peer on any torrent utorrent will try and respond. The torrents that give you the most pings tend to get most of your bandwidth.

If you right click on any torrent, you can set bandwidth allocation to low, medium, or high, but from my personal experience that doesn't really do that much. You can also limit the number of active torrents in your connection settings, and then set the rest of your torrents in a que. If you have ten torrents to download, you may set the maximum number of downloads to two, and then arrange your torrents 1-10 to be leeched. The ones higher in the que will get downloaded first. This really only effects download though, I haven't figure out how to do this intelligently with seeding.

[Adapa]

(27th November 2009 21:36)Mothergoose729 Wrote:  If you right click on any torrent, you can set bandwidth allocation to low, medium, or high, but from my personal experience that doesn't really do that much.

You're (almost certainly) looking in the wrong place for results--it affects uploadbandwidth [you can't control the speeds at which people upload to you, you can only affect the speeds at which you upload to others.]

Stop everything else and seed three torrents (with a good no. of peers). Set two of them to low and one to high. Within a few seconds the latter should be uploading significantly faster than the other two. Then change that one to low and one of the others to high. Again, it should only take a few seconds for the speeds to dramatically fall into line. Lastly, of course, set that to low and the third one to high and, again, the speeds should follow.

Had you been downloading those torrents then, there is a correlation between upload and download speeds but it's loose, so the effects on your download speed will exist but you probably wouldn't notice them in the few seconds or minutes you were staring at the screen expectantly. Over the course of a full download of two similarly sized/swarmed torrents though, it should make a distinct difference.

(27th November 2009 21:36)Mothergoose729 Wrote:  I haven't figure out how to do this intelligently with seeding.

It should actually do it by default (giving priority to seeding torrents with no seeds and secondary priority to those with low seed:peer ratios) but I've never taken the time to run any experiments to verify how well it works. Obviously it must take some time between automatically switching torrents otherwise it would jump about all over the place accomplishing nothing.