ABC bittorrent not limiting upload?

[thomsbrain]

I'm pretty new to torrent, and I've been downloading some stuff but the global upload limiter in ABC doesn't seem to be working at all. I can set them to anything and it still uses all my bandwidth. i've got 384kb/s upload, and I'm happy to let bittorrent use most of it, but I need a few KB/s so my surfing doesn't slow to a crawl and so my total download speed isn't getting screwed up by not having enough upload left over. also I have a few torrents where my ratio is like 400% and the individual torrent limiters aren't working either. what gives?

 

[rh71]

Never used ABC so 2 suggestions...

1) Use Azureus instead - the up-limiter works
2) grab netlimiter to throttle your entire PC's upload

 

[thomsbrain]

well throttling my entire PC's upload would just make things worse. i don't care about my ISP or anything, i just need to have a little headroom to do my surfing and stuff.

i'll try Azureus when the torrents i'm working on complete. i really wanted to avoid it because i hate java with a passion, i hate everything about it. but if that's what it takes to get a client that works properly, i'll have to suck it up and give it a shot.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Bit Tornado also has an upload limiter I believe.

 

[Allio]

Netlimiter can be used to control specific applications - in fact, that's its main use, I didn't even realise it was possible to throttle your whole system. It works flawlessly.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Allio
Netlimiter can be used to control specific applications - in fact, that's its main use, I didn't even realise it was possible to throttle your whole system. It works flawlessly.

my hero! i'll still try out the other client, but thanks, i'll try out netlimiter as well.

 

[JBT]

Azureus is pretty sweet IMO. It gets better and better every release.

 

[n7]

I've tried several clients, & the only one that actually limited the upload speeds was Azureus.

The other clients tend to have trouble following the settings you apply.

 

[NightCrawler]

G3 is great: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1097782446/1

 

[MercenaryForHire]

1) Get Azureus
2) Thank you for continuing to seed - 5KB/s is much better than none :beer:

- M4H

 

[Feneant2]

ABC works perfectly here, you might have an incorrect version.

The one thing I notice though, is that the minimum is set for each torrent and not the application so if you have say 4 files downloading, you need to set a limit on the 4 files (3K/sec is the lowest).