BitTorrent Bandwidth Setting

[mwoolley]

I am a new ReadyNAS Duo user and I have circles under my eyes from staying up playing with all the awesome features of it over the last two nights. I just turned on the BitTorrent client and started downloading the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. In spite of my 15Mb/2Mb FIOS connection to the internet, it was crawling along at about 60K down and 15-30K up until I changed the bandwidth mgmt setting from automatic to manual and left it at unlimited. Speeds immediately jumped to 1-2Mbps down and close to 100-200Kbps up.

This is probably obvious to those more experienced with torrent clients and specifically the RND torrent client, but I thought I'd post it since I didn't see any posts about this important setting.

[chirpa]

I don't see how changing it from Auto to Manual with no limits would affect it, but I guess it could be possible somehow.

super-poussin has made addons of 3rd party BitTorrent clients for the ReadyNAS as well, if you might want to check those out: viewforum.php?f=47

[mwoolley]

The reason I tried it was this description of the setting in on the settings screen:

Help with Bandwidth Management

When set to "Automatic", BitTorrent automatically moderates its use of your Internet connection to avoid disrupting other applications and users. To impose a strict cap on BitTorrent's use of your connection, you may manually set the maximum rates at which BitTorrent will download, upload, and seed.

I surmised that they were maybe assuming a slower connection that the 15Mbps/2Mbps that I have.