Simply put, for a reason I would like to figure out, Deluge has significantly faster and more consistent upload rates to this tracker than I am able to obtain with any version of utorrent.
I've noticed a strange phenomenon with utorrent, in both 1.8.x and 2.0. When i start the client, i get decent upload rates to this tracker, but over time the consistency and speed drops to a fraction of a kilobyte. When using Deluge for Windows however, my upload rate pretty much stays capped regardless of how long I keep the program open.
I've played with the "who's who" of options in both programs, and have made sure my Win7 firewall is set correctly with each respective program.
After using both programs I prefer the interface and coding of utorrent vastly over the open-source Deluge. Also, in comparison to utorrent, Deluge leaves a much larger disk and memory footprint. I also don't like having to install the GTK+ runtime on my machine just to use a torrent client.
Simply put, Deluge outperforms utorrent in the area of consistently fast upload speeds, especially when its been left on for a long time. I would like to see if anyone else notices this. If they do, we might be able to isolate exactly what about utorrent causes very inconsistent upload rates when Deluge doesn't.
I'd like to see if this is a problem with my local system or simply all users of utorrent, and if any of you would be willing to installing Deluge to see if you get better upload rates, we could isolate the problem to utorrent. I would have no idea if its utorrent's ability to connect with the tracker or simply other peers on the tracker, but maybe someone who knows the inner workings of the tracker could rule out the tracker being the problem.
There have been a lot of reports of bad upload rates on this tracker, and after using Deluge and noticing vastly better upload rates, I'm starting to think its related to the utorrent client.
I would appreciate it if anyone who notices slower than expected upload speeds while using utorrent would try Deluge and see if they are noticeably better. If we find out that is the case, hopefully we will be able to fix the tracker or our utorrent clients to match Deluge's upload rate. If we can't however, i'll just go back to using Deluge, and recommend everyone else do the same.
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