How to Force Vuze Not to Upload Files

Things to read first [edit]

Downloading as fast as your connection allows requires good settings based on the upload speed of your Internet connectedness. First, fix your NAT problem if y'all never run into the light-green smiley equally torrent health and do not Force First your torrents. Running another P2P programme while Azureus is running will stall your downloads badly as they volition fight for the same bandwidth.

The post-obit suggestions should work well most of the time. Downloads of private torrents also depend on other factors (meet Good Torrents).

Good settings based upload speed [edit]

Note: Discover your upload speed at next chapter.

If the chart below does non list your upload speed, you might use a figurer page or get new settings using AzBot.

If you are running several file-sharing programs on the same internet connection -- on ane or more than PCs -- yous need to separate the upload bandwidth and calculate queue settings accordingly. When in dubiety, ask in the IRC channel.

Attention: You demand to alter the User Proficiency Mode (Mode options) at least to "Intermediate" to be able to change all settings!

Pick	Upload speed of internet connectedness in kbit/s
Upload speed in kbit/south	128 3G(HSDPA)	128	256	512	768	1024	2048	5000
Options -> Transfer options
kB/s global max. upload speed	6-11	12	25	51	76	100	200	400
kB/s global max. download speed	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Default max. upload slots per torrent	1-2	2	three	five	6	8	x	15
Maximum number of connections per torrent	25	55	lx	80	90	100	100	100
Maximum number of connections globally	forty	80	130	200	250	300	300	360
Options -> Queue options
max. simultaneous downloads	1	1	2	ii	ii	3	4	four
max. active torrents	1	1	2	2	3	iv	6	six

See Options -> Transfer options and Options -> Queue options.

In any case, practice not let Azureus (or any other plan for that matter) take up the whole upload bandwidth. There needs to exist room for overhead such every bit acknowledgement signals (ACKs) and resend requests. Downloads volition suffer if these signals cannot be sent.

Gear up your upload limit to about 80% of the maximum possible. Setting your upload too depression may consequence in your torrents downloading slower, so it is about finding a balance betwixt the maximum speed and maintaining a low enough latency for smooth net usage.

How to determine your upload speed [edit]

To configure Azureus for optimum performance, you need to know the upstream capacity of your Internet connection, which tin can be obtained from your Net Service Provider (Internet service provider). Advertisements may include numbers like "1024/256 Kbps"; this represents the maximum bandwidth bachelor to you. Information technology is the number of kilobits per 2nd (kbit/southward or Kbps) y'all tin download/upload with your connection. You lot may have seen speed measured in kiloBytes per second as commonly reported by browsers. There is a divergence between the two measures. In all likelihood, you lot upload slower than you download.

ISPs and most speedtests employ kilobits/megabits, while Vuze uses kiloBytes past default.

i Byte = eight bits, one kB/southward = 8 kbit/s = 8 kb/s. Small and capital 'B'due south practice matter.

You may visit http://world wide web.speedtest.cyberspace or http://www.dslreports.com/stest or http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp for online speed tests. Stop ALL Net activity on your auto (including torrents) for a few minutes before running a examination. Repeat it twice to reduce number anomalies. If it's close to ane of the listed upload speeds, use the chart. Otherwise, apply AzBot or a calculator page.

Y'all can ever set Options -> Transfer > kB/s global max. upload speed to 0 -- meaning unlimited -- and observe what happens. Virtually probable it will reach your max. upload speed and so commencement oscillating, every bit the too high uploading will crusade traffic jams.

Test real-life torrent speed before complaining [edit]

If you get green smileys as torrents' "Health", then you know that your bones network settings are ok. However, that doesn't guarantee speedy transfers.

It is good to understand that

• there is no key server from which you download. Everything that users download, is at the aforementioned time uploaded past other users
• you contact other users for your downloads
• respectively, others should exist able to contact you (NAT & port forwarding to be configured)

Information technology is quite possible with a "new" torrent or an one with "small-scale" swarm (merely a few peers), that the missing pieces are non available. Then, information technology is quite possible that torrent remains active with "downloading" status, merely is non actively downloading annihilation as in that location is nobody to download from.

Earlier thinking that your configuration is dull, test information technology with a "known speedy" torrent. Eastward.g. the following torrent has very loftier speed: http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

Information technology is a Ubuntu Linux distribution, which has lots of seeders, and yous should reach your net connection'south maximum speed in nearly cases (especially with ADSL/cable dwelling connections). Speeds well over 10 Mbit/due south (= 1 MB/s as Vuze sees it) should exist reachable. You lot don't accept to download the 600 MB torrent completely, but you tin can use it as a test case for measuring maximum speeds of genuine torrents.

Other things to know [edit]

Read about Practiced Torrents. (Bad torrents may exist fast at starting time, but you won't terminate them.) Yous may want to compare your download speed with the Average Swarm Speed; you may be doing better than yous think.

Read the Azureus FAQ

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Source: https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Good_settings

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