the forums at degreez.net

Under BitTorrent Preferences, if I turn off 'Display peer and seed statistics' and 'Display miscellaneous other statistics', would BitTornado use less bandwidth (even if in the slightest way)?

Running a few torrents totally saturates my 128kbps connection

That was incorporated experimentally, and it won't even save you very much CPU, much less bandwidth. Sorry.

Go find the app Netlimiter, it should solve your problem...

On the subject of bandwidth, roughly how much download bandwidth is used for data that is not part of the file you're downloading?
I'm just curious because I downloaded a few files the other day which came to about 4.1Gb, but when I checked my download allowance with my ISP I had actually downloaded 5.7Gb of data up to that time. I did some browsing over those few days and might have downloaded a few small files (like virus guard updates etc.) but I wouldn't have thought I used more then 100Mb... Is my ISP losing it's rag or does BitTorrent use quite a lot of extra bandwidth?

Thanks!

Protocol overhead uses some, but not THAT much. There's also a problem with the current protocol that can cause up to a couple of percent of extraneous data to be downloaded, which we're working on. Between them it couldn't be anywhere near 40%.

Maybe plenty of hash check fails as well?

failed hash checks definitely sounds likely.

It'd take a ton of failures to equal that much bandwidth. I doubt it.

OK thanks! My DSL service is capped to 8Gb so I have to be careful about these things ...