clarebear Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Hi I have just downloaded utorrent and after figuring out how to open a port I thought my problems would be solved, but alias they are not!!I have very slow speed and most of the time I stop downloading altogether even though I have the green tick at the bottom and the blue download arrow.I have adsl broadband, when I hold my mouse over the icon at the bottom right hand corner of my screen (the 2 computers talking icon) it says I have Speed: 100.0Mps. On my isp webpage it shows dsl connection rates:Downstream: 1536 Kbps and Upstream: 128Kbps.When I did the speed test through utorrent - I get 358kb/s download and 76kb/s upload speed. My Utorrent speeds are 9kps up and only 5kps downloading at best with 4 (8) seeds and 33 (230) peers for a 3 episode download, at this rate it will take a week and 3 days to download.Could someone please let me know what I can do to get this faster?I have just noticed another problem...my green tick changes to the orange triangle !, even though I have opened my port , the portfarward.com site said it's still closed. Please answer this one in my other thread. CheersAnyones help is greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 You selected xx/128k in the Speed Guide, right? And how does a torrent from here run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarebear Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Thanks ultima, I did do the xx/128k after I saw your post. I had to actually upgrade my broadband but the best I can get is 1500k/256k as we don't have the best broadband here in australia out of the cities.I am still having very slow download speeds, I upload quicker then I am able to download. My port is open and I have made utorrent available in norton so I don't know what else to do. My current download speed is about 14k.Please help me someone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarebear Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Hi Ultima,I have gone through all of the steps mentioned in your guide. The torrent you suggested to downloading at an average of 19kB/s which is better then the rest.I have noticed a few things in utorrent that may be able to help someone smart figure out my problem...-All my download arrows are red or grey - even my only completed download that is being used for uploading-For each torrent, my tracker status says Proxy Connevt error: offline (timed out)-I don't have any swarms for seeds it will say Seeds: 6 of 7 (0 in swarm) peerss: 1 of 36 connected (0 in swarm) , wasted: 144kB (0 hashfails)- this if for the slackware-10.2-isoMy port is open and not being firewalled. I have the green tick in utorrent.I have completed all the recommendations listed in yor help guideMy modem is D-link DSL-302G generation II, adsl broadband internet connect speeds - dl-205kbps ul-47kbps at the moment, but this was trippled earlier (I had a couple of speed tests come up with the message, isp upload compression was detected, your upload speeds may be inaccurate)System - HP Pavilion, Intel, Pentium D CPU 2.66GHz, 2.67 GHx, 1.00GB of RAM and 140gb hard drive. I have also added my 60gb hard drive from my old computer. I am running XP media centre and have norton internet security 2006/2007my utorrent speed guides are set up at xx/256my internet connections seems to be much slower also, but I have ran the patch and made the changes so it might be just me hating our slow internet in australia. I am with optus.com.au and they were not on the throttle list.I hope I have included all useful information for someone to know if there is a problem with my set up.I have just noticed my download speeds are much faster then my upload speeds most of the time. but the highest download speed I have seen is about 36 kB/sMy download speed above is taken at the same time as the speed test results up higher in this... does this mean it will be even better once I don't have the compression thingy happening? And how do I get rid of the compression ?Thanks guys for your help, it must be frustrating when a laymen comes along Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarebear Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Now my internet connection is really slow - I can't get my internet speeds like they were before I did the patch and actions from your list. - how can I get my internet back to it's speeds?When I have utorrent closed, I get internet speeds of 900kb/200kbWhen I have utorrent opened, I get internet speeds of 70kb/28kb - and the compression warningHow do I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 IINM, some people have complained about Optus interfering with P2P traffic... I'm not really too sure, though =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarebear Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I think you are right, I had speeds last night, but now that I am in the middle of the 'peek internet usage period' I can't download anything, for torrents that have over 60 seeds I thought I should at least be able to download that.all my torrents are blocked out as red - doesn't that mean they are not available? is that what optus would have done or is there something else that blockes them out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yes, Optus can easily cause tracker issues -- the fact that it gives you a proxy connect error only leads me to further blame your ISP ;\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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