Noob speed question
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:46 am
Alright, I'll admit that I know fairly little about torrents so bear with me here.
My preferred pattern for dealing with torrents is that I download them as fast as possible while uploading little, then put the torrent into full seeding for however long it took me to download. It seems to me like a fair system. What I want to do is turn off uploading entirely during the downloading process, because I've found that if I do both at the same time my internet connection gets shot to hell and I have to pause the torrent just to use a browser. It seemed like I should be able to just set the torrent upload speed to zero until it finishes, then set it to unlimited when it finishes downloading. However, when I do this a strange thing happens. Within a minute after stopping upload, the DL speed doubles or triples. However, over time it goes way down and after a while it rarely gets more than 3-5 kb/s.
Like I said, my knowledge of how torrents work is painfully limited, so any help is appreciated. Thank you!
EDIT:
After fiddling with speed settings some more, I've got a new problem. After attempts to get my DL speed back up failed, I returned upload and download speed to unlimited. Unfortunately, now I am getting nothing either up or down. Help!
My preferred pattern for dealing with torrents is that I download them as fast as possible while uploading little, then put the torrent into full seeding for however long it took me to download. It seems to me like a fair system. What I want to do is turn off uploading entirely during the downloading process, because I've found that if I do both at the same time my internet connection gets shot to hell and I have to pause the torrent just to use a browser. It seemed like I should be able to just set the torrent upload speed to zero until it finishes, then set it to unlimited when it finishes downloading. However, when I do this a strange thing happens. Within a minute after stopping upload, the DL speed doubles or triples. However, over time it goes way down and after a while it rarely gets more than 3-5 kb/s.
Like I said, my knowledge of how torrents work is painfully limited, so any help is appreciated. Thank you!
EDIT:
After fiddling with speed settings some more, I've got a new problem. After attempts to get my DL speed back up failed, I returned upload and download speed to unlimited. Unfortunately, now I am getting nothing either up or down. Help!