Cam Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 - Green light's good to go- OpenOffice torrent averaging about 12-15kB/s- Protocol Encryption's enabled- peer.lazy_bitfield is enabled- ISP is listed here, but I used to be able to get speeds of up to 50kB/s and now my download speeds are all 0.xkB/s------ WinXP SP2- ZoneAlarm Free- Ad-aware, Spybot, Spyware Blaster, AVG Anti-Virus- Aztech 305E- TMNet- DSL-----After I upgraded to 1.6 build 474, the speeds dropped drastically. Before the upgrade, I used to be able to get download speeds of up to 50kB/s. I haven't changed any settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 Remove the rule for µTorrent in ZoneAlarm and try again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Posted November 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 I'm pretty sure uTorrent's allowed in ZA. Under 'Program Control', I've got the green checkmarks for 'Access (Trusted & Internet)' and 'Server (Trusted & Internet)'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 That's why Ultima told you to remove the rule in ZA...even though *YOU* did everything correctly, ZA may have screwed it up on its own....it's just to eliminate ZA as a cause of the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Posted November 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 How do I remove the rule? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Doesn't ZA have a FAQ that covers that?If not, search online...I don't use ZA and haven't in years since it was utter crap in the past....and I still don't trust it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Erm... there should be an application list that has µTorrent in it... just remove that entry I guess. I'd still suggest uninstalling so to be sure that some kind of stupid ZoneAlarm configuration file didn't get corrupted or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Posted November 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 There's no point removing that entry because every time I start up uTorrent, ZA will ask for permission and the entry will just go right back in there. I think the remove rule thing is only available in ZA Pro. I have ZA Free.ZA's driving me crazy. What's a better alternative firewall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 The point of removing the entry is even though it LOOKS correct, there may be something subtly corrupt about it.The entry may be for an earlier version of µTorrent, with a different filesize and "bit-print" CRC value. The earlier version entry in ZA prevents ZA from accepting the new µTorrent version...and thus you're always firewalled and get lots of blocked packets...some possibly OUTGOING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 @Cam: Have you tried uninstalling it yet? Just to confirm that the problem really is µTorrent? And if you're looking for firewall suggestions, you really should tell us if you'd prefer freeware or commercial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Posted November 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 What I meant is that I've already tried removing the entry several times, but to no avail.Yep, I've tried uninstalling. No difference. And I'd prefer freeware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 That almost rules ZoneAlarm out... all I'm worried about is whether it didn't uninstall cleanly and left junk behind, but I doubt that... Try clearing the settings and reconfiguring everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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