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I've read a lot of guides for optimizing bit torrent, but they're usually aimed at DSL or cable modem type bandwidth. I get about 50mbps download and upload right now. Is the following guidelines recommended for my connection?? Some of the choices seem a bit extreme...

1) Maximum upload speed... I just picked a number: 1200kBs I dunno how to convert my 40Mbps speed test result to kBps...

2) max connected peers per torrent: 1560 users guide says upload speed * 1.3

3) Global maximum number of connections: 3000 users no clue what to set here

4) Maximum upload slots: 201 guide says 1 + (upload speed / 6)

Please give me some tips. I have no idea if these settings are reasonable.. what is the maximum connections an i7 server can handle??

djmc
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Here's Wolfram Alpha's answer to the conversion question: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+40+Mbps+in+KB%2Fs%3F.

So maximum upload speed = 5000 kB/s.

Using your guide, that gives:
Max connected peers per torrent: 6500
Global maximum number of connections: not sure (sorry!)
Maximum upload slots: 833

Keep in mind that you might want to fly under the radar a bit and set those numbers lower. Your university may throttle P2P traffic as a matter of policy but they may not throttle you if your bandwidth use is moderate. Universities are under a lot of pressure from big media to pay attention to this kind of traffic. I worked for a university where they would look at the top talkers and if they were sharing copyrighted materials, they would have campus security shut them down.

boot13
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