I had about 30 downloads and an average download rate between 4 and 40 Kb/s. I'm now downloading 80 torrents and I have little or no download traffic. Have I choked something or is it just conincidence?

What is Your upload/download speed?

Each torrent uses some of Your bandwidth to communicate with tracker, especially Your UL bandwidth which is usually smaller then Your DL bandwidth.

There is no practical reason for You do download so many torrents at the same time. So reduce them to at most 2-3 at the time. Also reduce Your maximum UL speed to 90% of the one You have.

PEace
PS: Please read some Torrent FAQ and remember to seed until You have returned GB of Your download.

simplify wrote:What is Your upload/download speed?

I'm getting between 1k/sec and 50k/sec. It varies.

There is no practical reason for You do download so many torrents at the same time. So reduce them to at most 2-3 at the time. Also reduce Your maximum UL speed to 90% of the one You have.

I have capped my uploads now at 7k/sec, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
The reason I have so many downloads it that often, many of them are stalled (possibly because there are not many seeders). I tried limiting this to 3 as you said. I waited about ten minutes and they just waited at stalled as usual so I have a limit of 15 downloads now.

PEace
PS: Please read some Torrent FAQ and remember to seed until You have returned GB of Your download.

Peace to you too. I have read Torrent FAQ's but I have done all I can with this information. I needed to ask for help.

Thanks for your help,
Jarlath

This sounds like what I'm experiencing...

I'm averaging 19k down, 25k up. (Throttled, it'd go to 60k wide open).

May I ask your OS, OS version, KT version and ISP?:

Thanks,
-Greg

I'm using Ubuntu 7.04. Ktorrent 2.2.1 and my ISP is NTL (Ireland). How about you?

NTL actually did some maintenance work on the line around here recently and I'm wondering if that might have had an effect.

I'm running 2.2.1 on SuSE 10.2... Unfortunately, I'm using Bellsouth in Atlanta (SE US), so the ISP thing doesn't help. <sigh> Nothing worse than a disproved conspiracy theory.

Have you run a speed test?

Well, that's that then. By speed test, do you mean those websites that tell you the up/down speeds of your connection? I haven't but if you could give me a link to one I'll do it and post back the results.

My internet connection is almost useless when I'm running the torrents, even though it's only 8k down and 6k up on average lately.

I'm starting to have some problems here too. I'm running Mandriva 2006, KDE 3.5.4, and KTorrent 2.2.1. Although everyhing always seems slow as molasses it's gotten worse.
I'm currently limiting to 1 torrent, where there are 2 seeders and 5 leechers, 100% file availability, and the upload rate is averaging 80KB/s, but my downloads are only at 34KB/s. I limit uploads to 100KB/s, and that seems ok. No limit set for downloads. Still uploads far outstrip downloads, which used to be the other way around.
Isn't there some way to improve download speed & ratio?