VUZE UPLOAD SPEED HELP (why my torrents download faster)

lrr100

I ran my speed test at http://www.speedtest.net/.

Here is a website I used to convert my upload mbps to kbit/s:

http://www.numion.com/Calculators/Units.html.


Here's my result:

On the website I used to convert my upload mbps to kbit/s, I put in 1.12 (my upload speed from the test) and used the drop down box to select mbps (not Mbps). I looked at the "kilobits per second" line and got 1120 for my upload speed. On Vuze's chart, I chose 1024 where it says "Upload speed of internet connection in kbit/s". Then under 1024 were all the numbers I needed to enter in Steps 3-7 to get better speeds.


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INSTRUCTIONS PRIOR TO LAUNCHING VUZE:


-CLOSE TORRENT CLIENT PROGRAMS BEFORE SPEED TEST.

-RUN A SPEED TEST WHILE CONNECTED TO PIA. TAKE NOTE OF THE UPLOAD SPEED.

-GO TO http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Good_settings (THIS PAGE WILL BE THE VUZE UPLOAD CHART.)

-TIME TO GET YOUR FINGERS DIRTY


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1. LAUNCH VUZE

2. GO TO OPTIONS>TRANSFER

3. ENTER kB/S GLOBAL MAX UPLOAD SPEED.

4. kB/S GLOBAL MAX DOWNLOAD SPEED IS 0. (YOU WANT UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD SPEED.)

5. ENTER MAX UPLOAD SLOTS PER TORRENT.

6. ENTER MAX CONNECTIONS PER TORRENT.

7. ENTER MAX NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS GLOBALLY.

8. ONCE THAT'S DONE, EXPAND TRANSFER AND CHOOSE AUTO-SPEED (beta).

9. UNDER UPLOAD CAPACITY USAGE, DROP DOWN TO PUT 80%.

10. GO DOWN TO QUEUE AND PUT WHATEVER NUMBER IS ON THE CHART FOR MAX SIMULTANEOUS DOWNLOADS.

11. CLICK SAVE.

12. RE-LAUNCH VUZE.





It is recommended not to put 0 for upload speed as this can cause traffic jams. Do not force start torrents.

As for my NAT problem, I gave up trying to fix it so my torrent health icon turns green. I accept yellow is ok. It's the best I will get from the PIA servers as for incoming connections.




Also, if you don't want to seed torrents all day and all night, you can go to:

1. Queue>First Priority>Select a share ratio under 1:1.

2. Queue>Ignore Rules>Ignore torrents that have a share ratio of and put 1.0.


You're giving back 100% of the torrent to another, but not for days on end. These settings stop that from happening. It's safe to have the settings this way.




Hope this helps!!!!

Datasyke

I've tried what you have above with no luck.I was also on a chat with an PIA Tech Support person that was very helpful, recommended port forwarding. But so far nothing is helping my abysmal speed.

Without PIA I test anywhere between 60-150Mb down and 20-30Mb up. When I do a speed test with PIA on it doesn't do too bad... but when I turn Vuze on the down speeds a ridiculously slow, and the up speeds are a crawl.

I'm hoping it is my lack of experience with Vuze and something I'm missing, but all of the guides I've read on these forms thus far haven't solved my issues.

90% of the uploads are blue faces or yellow at best. The downloads connects tend to be yellow with a few green but even those aren't uploading much either.

At this rate my uploads will take months to share a 1:1 ratio

lrr100

Vuze is a heavy torrent client. I can't browse the internet and use Vuze at the same time. It sucks, but it is worth being able to download without someone looking over your shoulder.

Maybe you need to go with a different torrent client program. Like qbittorrent or something.

Datasyke

I'm not concerned with how resource intensive it is, since I installed it on a stand alone PC that is only meant for that task. This was the reason I wanted to set it up correctly since I want the best performance from it I can get.

At the moment I can't make Vuze connect to the torrents correctly since I'm not getting the speed I should be getting, and the upload (seeding) is horrible. Of fifty files I started  this morning only two have completed... The reason I signed on with PIA is for the anonymity, but I can't believe I have to sacrifice so much of the speed and sharing for this. These fifty files might have taken two hours normally to download to completion and share to 1:1.5-2 in that same time.

I know it might be (I hope it is) my fault since I don't know the software (Vuze or PIA) but at the moment I'm so frustrated that I'm almost to the point of just connecting directly and taking my chances. I know that would be foolish... it's just how I feel at the moment.

Bonkers

Vuze works fine for me.

Irr100 - if you can't browse while downloading you need to lower your max connections, coz you're allowing Vuze to hog all the bandwidth and push your modem to it's limits.

I'm sure there's a automatic setup in Vuze you can use.

With my billion modem I have to lower it even more because it's real touchy.  Still manage to almost max my download speed on occasion.

 

lrr100

@Datasyke...don't do it without protection!! You have a lot of torrents downloading. It's gonna take time behind a VPN. try my numbers.

GO TO OPTIONS>TRANSFER

kB/s global max. upload speed    put 100

kB/s global max. download speed    put 0

Default max. upload slots per torrent   put 8

Maximum number of connections per torrent   put 100

Maximum number of connections globally   put 300

ONCE THAT'S DONE, EXPAND TRANSFER AND CHOOSE AUTO-SPEED (beta).

UNDER UPLOAD CAPACITY USAGE, DROP DOWN TO PUT 80%.

GO DOWN TO QUEUE AND PUT 3 FOR MAX SIMULTANEOUS DOWNLOADS  (I use 3).

Now re-launch Vuze and see if it works. I have had downloads complete overnight with those numbers.

If you decide to get a refund from PIA you need to do it within 7 days of signing up.

lrr100

@datasyke. just to let you know I downloaded 7 TORRENTS last night and they were finished by this morning. This being done with the numbers I provided you above.

Maximize

I realize this is an old thread, but my issue is identical.

using Vuze,

My download is consistently cut down by about 10-15%
but my upload is cut 40-60% checked in bowser through speedtest.net

In vuze I only get one green (sometimes) and it will be very low numbers, maybe one yellow, and then all other uploads are blue.

P7831401

Maximize

If I let VUZE run by itself without interference from me it will only maintain 6 active downloads. All will have "green lights". All will probably be downloading at about 80 - 120 Kbs. If I am lucky I'll have the 6 one hour programs to watch when I get up 8 hours later.

I can of course queue as many as I like, but VUZE will only address 6 at a time.

It seems to me that even with PIA involved my speeds used to be a lot faster... A hours show in an hours time.... but now, even if I do only 1 or 2 torrents at a time, an hours show takes multiple hours.

I have been forced to choose HEVC versions of any given show, in order to have smaller files to download. Still takes forever!

Lambert58

YOU just saved my mind, and from remaining "Pist Off", sighhh, still regretting that one BUT this was my original issue.  But, I had been emailing with PIA support about my speeds and just tonight after maybe 10 different contacts over time, I asked basically what you answered.  Given the unknown decrease in connectivity due to the use of any vpn , while D/L and U/L my Linux data, is yellow the best I can expect.  And I tried this fix, I use uTorrent, but figured it was a close enough.  It didn't decrease my speeds, actually helped some.  But, I get RED a lot, is this to be expected as well?  I can have a red connectivity indicator and d/l a very active torrent, and I can hit 7.2mb, yes, ultra rare, but, point is, I obviously have a connection.  So, with a vpn, any thoughts on the Green, Yellow, and Red connectivity indicators?  Should they basically be ignored?  I may have just added a year to my life if I can let this go.......while still being able to do what I need with uT.  I mean I likely u/l and d/l maybe 10GB today.  Never seen a Green, have not since using PIA, and mostly in the Red today as well.  Uhhhhh, I think I may have just answered my own question, anyway, what say  y'all mates?

I do still have issues, usually a file will start, speeds climb for about 15 seconds then either hit zero, or close to it.  I found exiting and restarting uT helps, as does my secret weapon, clicking Bandwidth Allocation - HIGH right when the listed speed starts to drop, maybe twice, it's a developed art, but it seems to work much of the time and you have to watch those speeds like a ninja ready to strike in the milisecs, even a milisec prior, but that takes years of focus and lotsa eyestrain, but.......  And, it only affects that specific torrent that you select, others may drop to zero, or not, but generally do not increase at all, just the selected file.  This how I hit that 7.2mb/s, it may even have hit 9.2, but when I generally have less than 99kb/s, this is huge.  Would love for this not to be an issue though, anyone else have any secret mojo they use for  p2p?.  As opposed to posting frustrated rants, which this is not, just the opposite.

P7831401

I use VUZE, Windows 7, with a second gen Intel i5 processor (about 5-7 years old)
I feel like a total idiot but I think I know what happened in my case... I had been getting decent download speeds (1 gigabyte video in a bit less than an hour) but then something happened to reset my global download speed in the VUZE options tools. It was set so that it throttled all my downloads severely. I reset VUZE this morning for unlimited global download speed and my torrents (all legal of course!!! ) are flying like lightning!
I don't know if the throttling was caused by a VUZE update, my use of System Restore, or some bit of malware. It had nothing to do with PIA - or my ISP for that matter! :-)