Rargh Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Hi people, I've recently been getting very slow torrent download and upload speeds (never more than 4, sometimes 10kb/s), tried the speed guide, and even followed the special stickied guide in this forum but there wasn't any (or much) improvements, even though the health light is green. I'm using utorrent 1.6, got a 8192/768 internet connection, uninstalled my firewall, and ran the tcpip optimizer but the OOo torrent download speed never exceeds 8-10kb/s (disabling kaspersky anti-virus doesn't help). Got a router too, with ports properly forwarded.. I'm stuck on this one guys. Would anyone have a suggestion except changing ISPs?Thanksedit: oh yeah, I looked at the peer traffic window and noticed there was a lot of peer disconnections due to timeouts. might this help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Do you have Protocol Encryption enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rargh Posted July 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 actually, yes. Tried "forced" and "disabled" too, but it the same timeouts keep happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themainman Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 what connection type are you using ? check the speed guide under options. i have 1Mb broadband (have followed the guide and tried the settings sujested). I decided to use xx/96k connection type this improved my averall speed i get around 50kB/s download and around 7kB/s upload now. i nolonger get the great fluctuations in speed download or upload when i first used uTorrent (i have never got more than 10Kb/s upload and not often at that speed on my connection, mostly get 7-8kB/s). using xx/128k just makes thing worse i get more fluctuation in speed. using xx/64k gives same download as xx/96 but upload is constant 5kB/s instead of 7kB/s. NOTE: i share my connection with wifes computer through a router if i use higher setting my wife cannot connect to the net from her computer. higher settings offer no additional proformance (makes things worse if anything) so no point stopping wife from connecting and having her shout at me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 DHT and UPnP may be causing problems...try disabling them.Also half-open connections can be set too high in µTorrent...try lowering them down to 8 if higher or down to 4-6 if already set to 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rargh Posted July 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 thanks for your answers, but, well, neither suggestion helped...I'm starting to think either my isp throttled every single port or the router is damaged since everything was fine a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 To make sure it's not your router, connect directly to the modem. Uninstall your firewall to make sure it's not a culprit either. If neither suggestion works, then it probably is your ISP throttling unrecognized traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rargh Posted July 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 I contacted my ISP and it denies blocking any kind of transfert, so it's a good thing.I used netstat (under windows xp) to see what ports were active, and I found a lot of ports being active whereas they should not since they're different from the utorrent listen port...Windows would be the culprit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Active ports on netstat doesn't mean they're open... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Active ports are likely outgoing connections your computer made. In that regard, your router is a 1-way firewall -- you can connect outwards, but nothing can connect inwards to you. It's sort of like you're firewalled because your telephone doesn't ring...and you cannot call anyone else who is firewalled because their telephone doesn't ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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