Have Utorrent and 10 M download and 2 M but only downloads at 10% & want faster

BuddynCR

Does anyone know how I can make my uploads and downloads work faster in Utorrent?? I tried changing the settings myself with disastrous results. I want to use as much of the 10Mg of download I have and especially the 2 Mg upload. Anyone know what I need to do? :crazy2:

cannonmc

Stop panicking would be a good start.

It is worth remembering that it takes two to tango and your speeds will only be as good as those at the other end.

It probably has nothing to do with your settings, just that the people you are sharing with can't match your speeds.

amicusets

Have you tried a seedbox?

MrMazda

The other thing that I can think of has to do with how you connect to the internet. Are you using a VPN? If not, you may also be getting affected by traffic shaping from your ISP. For that matter, if you're in the USA, all it takes is an allegation with absolutely no evidence to legally slow down your entire connection.

Also, do not confuse MB (MegaByte) with mb (megabit) as they are two very different things. Internet speeds from a provider are generally measured in megabit… For this reason, that means your actual cap out speeds should be roughly as follows:

10mb DL = ~1.19MB/s
2mb UL = ~244KB/s

The conversion is as follows:

10mbit * 1,000,000bits/mb = 10,000,000bits
10,000,000bits / 8bits/byte = 1,250,000bytes
1,250,000bytes / 1024bytes/KB = 1220.70KB
1220.70KB / 1024KB/MB = 1.19MB

So as you see, promised speeds by a provider can be quite misleading. That's mainly because they measure in megabit, which consists of 1,000,000 bits. There are 8 bits to a byte, so one must crunch some numbers to be able to get the actual speed in KiloBytes or MegaBytes, instead of the kilobits or megabits that your provider will offer to you.

BuddynCR

Thanks for the help and especially MrMazda for explaining that for me. I knew it 25 years ago, but have forgotten it. I do use Chrome's free VPN and sign in from the US.

By the way MrMazda I drove a Miata for 13 years and had 237K miles on it before I gave it away when I moved to Costa Rica. I babied it and still got almost 30 mpg on the highway. And it handled so well in Montana and the Dakotas at 120 mph.