squimmy Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 For ages now I've been able to get BT to work brilliantly, using my full connection, now suddenly today, I start having major problems.I'm suddenly getting slow download speeds in utorrent (and any other client). My NAT is fine, I get the green icon in utorrent and my upload should be fine, a constant speed of 25 kB/s (my max) but my download speed doesn't go over 30 kB/s. This isn't right, I have a 2 meg connection and I usually get speeds of 200 kB/s. There are plenty of seeds so I don't see why i'm getting such a low speed. I should definately be getting over 100 kB/s. In this speedtest my speed is given as 1881 kbps down and 220 kbps up.My ISP is BT (UK). I don't think they're bad for bittorent. I'm not using a standard port either - I'm using port 133281.Any help would be very much appreciated.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 There's no such thing as a port 133281. The maximum is 65535. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squimmy Posted August 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Sorry, typo, I mean 13281. Added an extra 3 by mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 What did you set your upload limit to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerjohn Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 i would love to hear the solutions to squimmy's problem.... i have the same issue with download speed as well. my problem started about 2 weeks ago.my ISP is rcn in chicago. i've been searching this problem and it sounds like my ISP, rcn, is "throttling" me down..... it's interesting though because i'm still able to average upload of 70-80 kB/s.....needless to say, this is very frustrating. i used to get 300-500 kB/s download. ;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 Hm... What ISP? Protocol Encryption enabled? Repatch TCPIP.sys (I doubt this would help, but hey, worth a try)?@squimmy: Just FYI, other people have reported British Telecom to throttle during certain hours of the day, so I'm not sure if that's affecting you here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 Always worth using GOOGLE to do investigations of your own ISP. Often, there's a few people who misreport their problems as "ISP throttling BitTorrent!" -- but there's alot of info out there if you feel like searching for it....and maybe solutions to the problems that we cannot dream of here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerjohn Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 switeck - thanks. i have found a few things googling; what do you know.....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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