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Computer Tech: Why dose uTorrent rape my connection? - Mark D Well i have that U-Verse shit from att, and quite frankly i love it. I recently (well about a year ago) switched to it from comcast due to the high prices + the fact i would consntantly get disconnected from games and it was just a pain. Anyways i have this Firefox > Tools > bandwith test. When i run the test with just my pc on, no games, and no downloads im running a sick 3meg connection. When i run my games (primarly socom 2/3) i still ususally sit at about 2.5meg, even when hosting 32 man rooms on socom 3, so connection is still super smooth. However when i turn on uTorrent, if im downloading somthing that is going at like 20kb/s it tottaly but rapes my connection and throws me to a like 360kb/s connection... Thats like 1/8 my connection without it running. What i dont understand is why would it drop it over 2.5 megs/s to download somthing going at 20kb/s? And is there any way to fix that?

Best Answer: its becase u torrent or any other torrenting programs re allocate processing and bandwidth to run all the servers leechers and seeds to connect to your computerto download the torrent so its using all that bandwidth to connect to your computer from all around the world.. thats why you bandwidth is raped... i have a 5.2 mb/ps connectiona and when im torrenting it drops to about 750-900 kbs.. - d3athbl0w

you need to understand how computers work, for instant you ISP will be cutting you down, they now have to report pirate illegal downloads so if your pirating copy right music watch out now then with utorrent your not only downloading your also uploading to others that want what ever you have on your hard drive, your up loading and downloading torrent files, at the same time you uploading and downloading data to and from the games server, how much band width do you thinks you will be using ? Think about it - Carling

What is your torrent upload speed at? you might be sucking up all your bandwith uploading to other users while downloading very slowly. Or it could be ISP throttling - AT&T is known for choking your speed if they think you are down/uploading torrents. And I don't want to burst your bubble (and I don't know what you are paying - maybe it's really cheap) but I'm paying $40/mo for Comcast and I get 15Mb/s regularlly, with spikes up to 45-60 seconds at 25Mb/s. I find that I'm slowed down by the server I'm connecting to more than the ISP connection. Is you plan like $10/mo? - Chris

because torrents have you uploading the files while downloading meaning they are very heavy on connection speeds. you could try something like "BitThief" or "BitTyrant" instead. or just stop stealing stuff and actually buy it. - Anonymos

AT&T is probably throttling your connection when it sees a torrent download (which is almost always illegal). - Colanth

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