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If you scour their forums, you shall see the opposite... tho i havent been there in a few months myself ... and also 1.9 has been out for quite some time now, around 5 months or so, but problems were abound... i had no issues with download speed, but with upload (which most ppl dont concern themselves with or worry about). You will see on any particular torrent that most utorrent users are 1.8 instead of 1.9... i'd say 65/35.... but like alot of things, what doesnt work for some works for others, and vice versa
Hi there
I believe as I posted earlier the UPLOAD problem is usually due to ISP's -- most download speeds are very good -- upload speeds are usually horrible.
I often think that users should get a bit of "Configuration" choice -- for example I don't need a 50 Mb/s download speed but I'd certainly swap that for say 35 Mb/s download with 15 MB/s upload -- but unfortunately "It don't work like that".
The Download speeds that are being banded about are like Digital camera makers boasting how many MP's their cameras are -- in fact if you know anything about digital cameras some of the lower MP cameras are actually better than the higher MP one's (less noise -- possibly larger pixels etc etc).
The numbers are often used purely in the sales spiel. Most users would actually be better off with possibly lower speeds but a cheaper service.
Won't happen though.
Cheers
jimbo
I have never had a problem with any version of uTorrent . My internet connection is a sad joke 256/64 ( don't laugh) .
My max download speed is around 30kbps and uploads approx. 6kbps.
I can max them both out with uTorrent , when there are enough peers.
Your internet provider might be throttling your connection. Do you have Protocol Encryption enabled? I do and i am pretty sure my ISP doesnt throttle torrent files.
uTorrent Roolz
Heya jim... nah, its not throttled here, thank god... but yea, loaded up utorrent once again on first 7 install just cuz i noticed the little gadget (which i did like). But yea, for some reason, and i know all the tricks and such and spent many a hours on that forum reading... I like the whole idea and concept of the 1.9, the utp and such, but its so buggy... yes, i disabled it, binded ip and yadda yadda, but no matter if utp, tcp/udp or both i had the same upload slug... would start out very very slow and maybe after 10 min finally reach maybe 50% of the upload limit that i would set (usually 80%). Trying out 1.8 worked fairly wel, but i wasnt getting the speeds i would get from other clients. This would be something from Sunmicro, legal stuff, well seeded... best control variable i could think of. 1.9 failed miserably for me, and this just isnt on 7, same for XP as well.... not a router issue as i would have similar problems with other clients or other ftp etc... I also noticed, coulda been coincidence, but i got better speeds on 1.9 from a 1.8 host
The key to uTorrent is choosing a good 'port' that's not blocked by the ISP and/or setting one that's not too popular I use a fixed port in the range of 56100-57000 :)
Maybe I'm being a bit of a dimwit here but why would your ISP BLOCK ANY PORT from your HOME connection (Your Router / Firewall etc).
I know if you are using say an Internet Cafe or Wireless network OUTSIDE your own router then ports might be blocked --most of them block SMTP E-Mail to prevent SPAM and mail-bots so you are forced to use some horrible web mail client when sending emails away frome home (unless you use RDP to home computer or some horrible paid for email sending service -- not worth it).
But why would they block any port from INSIDE your router system. The problem I believe was the poster was complaining about UPLOAD speeds -- this is 100% due to the hardware provisions of the ISP and you can't really do much about it other than change ISP's (where possible).
Cheers
jimbo