uTorrent mysteriously stopped downloading/dowloading very slow

Hi. uTorrent has always worked perfectly for me, and it worked perfectly on my new computer as well until now. The problem seems to be firewall/router-related, mainly because i can't think of an explanation.

I have windows 7 professional, latest utorrent, billion bipack 5200GR3 router, windows firewall and windows essentials antivirus.

Now i'm downloading at 45 kb/s on a torrent with 10000/8000 s/l. Im used to downloading at about 1 Mb/s or more with that many seeders.

I hope you can help me.

PS. i tried downloading a torrent with vuze and had similar problems so i don't really think it's a utorrent problem...

Options -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Disk Cache -> Check Override, set to around 500 MB

Thank you! I got a new machine and the default was 50. I had 5 downloads of 2-5 GB a peice, each in single MBS with ETA's stretching into the weeks. Popping in 500 gave me triple digit MBS (1 was over 1000) and all will be done within the next few hours.

Why would the default be so low? And thanks again for this advice - and for google for finding it up top in the list of results!!!

Options -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Disk Cache -> Check Override, set to around 500 MB

i had the same problem. i tried this and am still having the same problem.

How would we know what value to put there?

Thank you very much negotiation,I was having this problem but I followed your instructions and it's now working perfectly.

kireiflower put in 500mb as suggested,it worked for me.