[redsniper]

First of all, where I live I can get dial up, satellite, or nothing so switching to DSL or cable is not an option. Now then, I'm using Bittorrent with the Azureus client to liberate media. The problem is that my ISP won't allow a lot of uploading since it strains their network and causes problems. If I upload too much my internet service gets suspended until the 'problem' is fixed and I tell them so. I've had this happen 2 or 3 times and I don't want it to happen again. I forget the specifics, but basically if I get my service suspended enough times bad stuff happens. If I limit the upload speed in Azureus the download speed is also limited. I realize the whole point of bittorrent is that everyone helps upload and I hate to be a leecher but right now I don't have much of a choice. So, any advice?

[Nuke]

im still not a big fan of bittorrent. while i have respect for the concept and the fairness of its theory i find that it rarely works as discribed. when downloading tbp it had a bad interaction with my firewall,  even after i unblocked the required ports. the result was the firewall locking up the whole machine requiring several hard restarts.  and even though it uploaded over 30% of what got downloaded it repoted none of it to the tracker, giving me a leecher's rating. bit torrent needs some serious revamping. i dont see me using it any time in the near future, il just use gnucleus for all my file sharing needs.

[Liberator]

I use BitTornado and my share rating is almost always 1:1 or higher.

I could never get Azureus to function and BT works well for me.

To be honest, it sounds like you're stuck with the leecher rating.

[redsniper]

right, but if I have the upload set really low the download is automatically set lower as well. I want it to download as fast as it can and upload very slowly or not at all.

[Taristin]

So... err... try a different bit torrent program?

[Sandwich]

I have more or less the same problem, though with ADSL. We have a 1,500kbit/s download, 96kbit/s upload connection. Works out to ~200kbyte/s download and a measly 13kbyte/s upload, and with five computers networked together sharing the same connection, we can't do anything if the upload is filled up.

The solution I've found is to use a program called NetLimiter. You can set whatever upload/download speed in Azureus you want, but in the end, it all passes through NetLimiter's artificial "bottleneck", which can be set on a per-application basis. You can even schedule automatic changes to the allowed upload or download of any application, so that for example you could have it increase the allowed upload when everyone's asleep or out of the house, and decrease it when people are actively using the net.

[redsniper]

thanks, Sandwich. I'll look into it.