upload speed limit - mac

[Guest vinivendra]

Hey guys,

I'm kinda new in this forum, but here goes nothing:

I've been using bittorrent for OSX (apple's mac OS) for a while, and I really like it because the download speed can go WAY faster than in my old pc, up to 1200 kB/s. The problem is I can never get the upload speed to go that high, it always stops at around 80 kB/s. That makes it really difficult to seed stuff because downloads happen in 5 minutes and uploads force me to leave my notebook on for hours if I want to seed things up to a 1.10 ratio, which I usually do.

I already tried setting the upload speed limit to unlimited in the bottom of the window (the little upwards arrow), and tried doing the same thing in the preferences window (command + ,) by going to "Limit manually to:" in the Bandwidth tab and setting it to 0 (unlimited).

I also tried (in both places) to limit the upload speed to something like 200 kB/s, but it always gets to around 89 and starts dropping again.

I changed my router recently, but no changes in speed were noticeable.

I was thinking maybe its a limitation from my internet provider (not sure if that's the correct term), but I'd like to know if there's anything I haven't tried yet or any way to find out for sure if that's the case.

Thanks in advance

[Harold Feit]

What are your connection's rated speeds?

[Guest vinivendra]

What are your connection's rated speeds?

I'm not sure if this is the answer you are looking for, but according to speedtest.net it's 8.60 MB/s download and 0.74 MB/s upload.

[Harold Feit]

Then there is nothing in your settings that are going to fix this issue. Your line simply isn't capable of more upload.

[Guest vinivendra]

All right then, thanks anyway man.