You might not understand how to read and comprehend things or how bittorrent works, but you can certainly understand faster downloads with uTP, right?

When it’s BitTorrent Inc. throttling bittorrent it’s fine…?

Stop this nonsense, and say no to uTP.

I have found that nearly all peers use and connect to me using uTP.

I am using uTorrent 1.85 and have changed the advanced settings to utilize [perhaps an older version of] uTP.

Since I haven’t had any problems with it, I don’t see any reason to upgrade.

Options/Preferences/Advanced

The advanced change is:

bt.transp_disposition 255

* [Seems to have] significantly increased download speed

* Eliminated router or modem crashes

* Allowed me to use the internet for other purposes (browsing, for example) at full speed.

http://www.activepolitic.com/2/News/05-24.html#Internet

“Even with all the torrents stopped, over several hours the DL rate climbs up to 5kbps and CPU consumption up to 30% of 2GHz. ”

I’d take a guess that you have DHT enabled. DHT, even when no torrents are active or even loaded, will continue to make connections to a DHT node, to keep your client alive in the list of DHT peers. On my box I will notice what I call a heartbeat. Every few seconds my connection shows roughly 5kbps out and 1 or 2 kbps in, which is all DHT.

30% cpu usage seems rather high though.

As for lockups, sounds like your client it using too much memory or is leaking, have you messed with any advanced settings in there?

Utorrent should not be eventually crashing out and taking the system with it.

i’m using the newest release client and my speeds are normal, good torrents max my cap, normal torrents do about the same. Haven’t noticed a lick of difference, never had congestion issues within my network or over the isp network so it’s hard to say if it’s improved. It’s stayed the same and that’s fine for me.

Congestion is not my problem. Congestion is not my job. Somebody else gets PAID for dealing with that and I AM THE ONE PAYING THEM. You want me to PAY them AND help them run their business?

uTorrent is for kids and noobs who need everything to be simple for them to understand. To prove it, a kid and/or noob will come in with the obligatory BS resource argument in 3..2..1..

From my experience it only gets better and better :)

On the other hand, I’m still quite sure bandwidth and CPU consumption shouldn’t be climbing so high – even with the low cpu flag switched on, once torrents are actually running everything else gradually becomes unusable and eventually (only after many hours) utorrent itself locks up and sometimes crashes the OS.

I’m perfectly willing to admit I could be wrong here, but at the moment I’m fairly sure that’s not part of it’s designed behaviour. :D

Before we complain about the ‘slow down’ caused by uTP, maybe we shall rethink why BitTorrent was complained by ISP before. It’s BT downloading/uploading having an unfair advantage in case of traffic congestions. As uTP is designed to be more network-friendly and do more self-throttling, a slow-down for some of us is unsurprising, or even well expected. If you don’t want to be nice to other people, feel free to use other clients. But complaining the technical aspect of uTP just because of any slow-down? That is stupid. If uTP slows down nobody, then it is not doing its job.

Another point that every one seems to forget is that not all machines & hardware are equal, seemingly identical machines can have different problems associated with one piece of software. This is why we have settings & configurations to adjust things to our individual machines.

With utp being a new addition people are still trying to work out ideal configurations/settings for speed/bandwidth. But coz we’re all stupid we can’t even work out where the options>preferences menu is!

@25 On 1.7.7 I’m getting 1.3mbs top speed down & 130kb/s up. On 2.0 I was maxing out at 250kb/s up & rarely hit 20kb/s up. As I have stated different machines need different settings & this is just my own personal experience. Until its had a settling in period I’ll give 2.0 a miss.

Have also found a lot of Private sites have “Banned” (or I should say asked users not to use) 2.0, but I still see plenty using it! Guess the “Bans” can’t be enforced! lol