Download/Upload ratio 20:1

[Dunhillsmoker]

Hey guys,

I am on a cable-line with 64000 kbits downstream and 5000 kbits upstream.
I use download-station to download some torrents and always wondered, why this is taking quite a bit longer than using utorrent on my mac.
I had the max upload set to 40 kb/s (kilobyte) and download speed = 0 (unlimited). While downloading some torrents I saw that the download speed maxed out at 800kb/s (kilobyte). I then changed the upload speed to 100 kb/s (kilobyte) and got 2mb/s (megabyte) download speed for my torrents combined.
Is it true that download station has a upload/download ratio of 1:20 for torrents? Or do I miss something?

If so, please QNAP, get rid of this! NO other torrent client has this. (afaik) I am really willing to prolong my upload phase of a torrent to come to a up/down ratio of 100% in the end, but this really is annoying when having a broadband-line and needing the upload-speed for work.

Thanks a lot and greetings to you all!

Dunhillsmoker

[sieroka]

I see similar behaviour. I'm about to start having a monthly bandwidth limit, and was experimenting with the upload settings, which caused my download speeds to drop as well.

Is there something that can be changed in the application configuration on the QNAP server itself? Any other ideas? install a different torrent client?

[P3R]

As far as I remember the upload/download-ratio used to be 1:10. Maybe it have been changed to 1:20 now?

I use the general configuration recommendation of having the per torrent download rate at 0 (unlimited) and do any throttling necessary with the global upload parameter. Also I have a symmetrical internet connection but I understand that it can become a problem with a very unsymmetrical connection.

[QNAPJason]

Hi Dunhillsmoker and sieroka,
I've checked the issue with our engineer and in fact the limitation is 1:10 (upload/download).
The limitation is set by the BT engine code and could not be modified by us.
We will definitely remove this restriction if the BT library source code does not impose this restriction.

[kbjr]

QNAP

Hi Dunhillsmoker and sieroka,
I've checked the issue with our engineer and in fact the limitation is 1:10 (upload/download).
The limitation is set by the BT engine code and could not be modified by us.
We will definitely remove this restriction if the BT library source code does not impose this restriction.

Any news on this?

Just bought my new Qnap TS410 and i'm very dissapointed about this. My line is very offset, so i have to limit my upload in order to be able to surf. Limitations is not my kinda thing.

[sieroka]

kbjr - I haven't tried the latest version of Download Station (that now at least supports magnet links) with the 3.7 firmware, but you may want to try that to see if anything has changed. It uses a 3rd party library, which I doubt they would want to change themselves, so it's likely it won't be fixed until they pick a new torrent library/program for Download Station.

However, I've been using the transmission QPKG for a few months now. It did have a few issues, but they seem to have all been resolved with the latest version.

To install transmission 2.51-b17, follow the instructions here:
viewtopic.php?f=221&t=44999

Then download 'Transmission Remote GUI' here:
http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/

Then disable Download Station.

[kbjr]

Cool thanks.

Does Qgetmobile support transmission, do you have any idead about that?

[sieroka]

I wouldn't think so, but have never tried it.

Transmission does come with a web interface, so you could go to this page to add a torrent. You can add torrent files and magnet links with it.
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9091/transmission/web/