Slow Download speeds when high upload speeds

[ichernev]

Hello everyone,

I'm experiencing some strange download speeds. So there are thousand of peers all around the globe, but my download speed was around 10kb/s, when I restricted the upload speed to 20 kb/s (it was way higher - like 150-200kb/s) the download speed got up to nearly 100kb/s. When I removed the upload speed restriction the download speed fell back down. Also - there seem to be a lot of seeders and I'm connected to only few of them - is there any way to instruct deluge to try do download a torrent as fast as possible - I don't want to restrict the upload speeds - I want to upload as fast as possible too, if this doesn't disturb the download speed.

I don't know the p2p protocols in depth, but I'm sure there is some way to optimize the download speed (inside deluge itself) since I can do it myself by limiting the upload.

[loki]

This is because of the way most internet connections operate. To maximize your download speed you should set an upload speed to 80-90% of your maximum allotted upload speed.

[ichernev]

Thanks for the reply!

I'm sorry I answered so late ... gmail sent the deluge notification letter to spam