µTorrent woes

**AuroEdge** · March 5th, 2008, 08:42

I tried downloading Open Office with µTorrent and had mixed success. One item of interest is will increasing the value of net.max_halfopen from 8 to a higher number subsequently increase torrent performance? I used to use BitTornado but wanted to try out something new. Most Google searches bring up things people should already know like setting your upload speed correctly and number of peers to connect to.

**the_eternal_dark** · March 5th, 2008, 09:29

That is why I use ktorrent or Frostwire, but then again I am using Ubuntu.

uTorrent is good, it could be that the torrent you are attempting to download is bad.

**AdamRav** · March 5th, 2008, 09:43

Yea, download speed usaully depends on how many seeders there are

**dejkirkby** · March 5th, 2008, 17:39

Why not just download OpenOffice from their website?
It's freeware.

**SnesR0X** · March 5th, 2008, 19:37

Azureus FTW!
Never failed me.
Honestly a great piece of software.

**dejkirkby** · March 5th, 2008, 19:46

Originally Posted by SnesR0X

Azureus FTW!
Never failed me.
Honestly a great piece of software.

Great program, but very resource hungry.

**SnesR0X** · March 7th, 2008, 00:16

Originally Posted by dejkirkby

Great program, but very resource hungry.

You mean power consumption? Or CPU usage?

**mike_jmg** · March 7th, 2008, 02:32

BitLord

**AuroEdge** · March 7th, 2008, 16:08

I upped the number of peers it can connect to. By default it only allows 50 per torrent. Also, had a hunch and checked the System Event Viewer (Windows XP) and saw more 4226 entries than I liked. Apparently even though µTorrent isn't aggressive to lower cpu usage it still uses a lot of half-open connections. I used LvlLord's patcher so that you aren't limited to only ten and my woes went away. One easy way to spot this problem with any application is if when browsing multiple pages at once some connect, albeit slowly, and others don't connect at all to sites that should never be down.