Peaks in Bandwidth

[ElectricMoon]

I'm a relative newbie at using uTorrent and the bittorrent system in general, so this may sound like a simple problem but I'd aprreciate your help...

I notice the when I view my speed at like 5 minute intervals the my speed goes up and down from 0 KB/s up to 50 KB/s. It seems to stay at 0 for like two or three minutes then jumps up to the peak for maybe a minute or so. It never stays at a constant speed. My upload speed does the same. I have set the upload speed correctly and have patched TCPIP.sys to 250 inc. connections. Is this a provider problem or something I can fix? As far as I know my provider doesnt throtle the bandwidth. I have a 512K down connection. I think my up is 128K. I run Win XP SP2. Thanks for your help.

[Switeck]

What ISP do you have?

It sounds like possible ISP throttling, but it could just be your upload is something less than 128 kilobit/sec.

Have you tried Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and tried the slower settings of xx/64k and xx/96k?

If speeds stay above 0 for longer, at least it's a start.

[ElectricMoon]

I live out in the middle of the country in central Texas, my ISP is my local phone Co-Op, Colorado Valley Telephone Cooperative. I'm sure they probably buy bandwidth from some other big ISP but i don't know who. If I download a big file or anything off the web it's always good, like 50 KB/s steady. I dont know if that means anything or not. I'll try setting the upload speed lower. Let me know if you think of anything else...thanks

[Ultima]

For one thing, setting TCPIP.sys too high can be problematic. With your connection, 50 is enough of a limit, and 40 being the maximum you should ever need for net.max_halfopen (if you even modified it). What have you selected in the Speed Guide?