Recent speed problems

[miniwai]

Hiya all,

New to the forum, but my problem is driving me nut's and i was hoping someone could help. Been using utorrent for ages and very successfully untill about a week ago, when all of a sudden i can't get downloads above 10kB/s and averaging around 5kB/s previously (until last week) i was getting at least 40kB/s up to 60kB/s. Everything is set up as per icedogs guide, ports forwarded etc. torrents have excellent seeds and peers (28440 and 18807 respectivly alot i know but are genuine csi from isohunt). I am sure i haven't changed anything to result in the loss of speed and have tried tweekning the settings to see if this help but to no avail. Only thing that i have noticed is a red solid although faint horazontal line on the speed graph at about the 10kB/s level that i haven't seen before is this anything?????? sorry if i haven't given enough info but hope someone can help i need my csi fix!!! :-)

[Ultima]

1c3d0g's guide has long been un-recommended now. The Speed Guide is what you should be using. The red line is your upload limit... Do tell us how fast your connection should be (upload and download).

[Switeck]

Also, what has your upload speed been doing now that your download speed has become craptacular.

If your upload speed max is no longer being reached either -- it's likely you're overloaded on the upload side and that utterly cripples download speeds in the process.

[miniwai]

thanks for the replies, internet connection is adsl 512kB/s but on last speed test (just now) my results were.... downloads 80kbp/s and uploads 226kbp/s????? repeated it and got 60 and 104 respectivly???? Uploads are maxing out but varies. Seeds always max out. If it is the uplaods what have i changed?

NB my utorrent is set up using speed guide but have used icedogs numbers in the advanced set up is this wrong?

set up is: upload limit 17KB/s

connections 55

max active 1

upload slots 3

connections 90

max active dl 1

thanks

[Switeck]

You should run internet connection speed tests when absolutely nothing else is attempting to access the internet.

Your half-open connection limit in µTorrent really should not be higher than the default value of 8, and you may even get better results reducing that to 4-6.

[miniwai]

yeah speed test was compleated with nothing else running just done another downloads 77kbsp up 223kbsp? changed my half open to 8 then 6 but it isnt affecting donwload speeds still around 7kB/s but seeding always max out currently 17kB/s

[Switeck]

Lower your upload speed to only 12-15 KB/sec. Use alternate upload speed while not downloading to run at 17 KB/sec to make up for uploading less while downloading.

I'm guessing you're choking your connection trying to upload to fast.

[miniwai]

ajusted upload speeds as recommended but still no joy! seems to be a few of us on here with the same problems, i'm at a loss

[Switeck]

Have you tried disabling DHT and UPnP?

You may need to manually port-forward/set software firewall.