dogwomble Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Hey guys,I'm just in the process of crossgrading from Azureus to uTorrent. I have a problem I haven't seen before, and was hoping to get a bit of infoI started off my first torrent download. I was getting a download speed of 25-30 kilobytes per second, which is at least OK for a 512/128 connection, and roughly what I was getting from Azureus.However, when I started to download further torrents, this particular torrent went from 25k/sec to 0.1k/sec (I'm not kidding!). The time taking to download this file has gone from ~2 hours to over 3 weeks! Two of the other torrents are downloading also at less than 1k/second even with plenty of seeds (in some cases 40+ seeds).I'm running over ports 6881-6889, which have already been successfully port forwarded through my DLink DSL-502t router. These settings have not been changed and have worked successfully with both Azureus and Shareaza for a long period of time (ie. a period of about 2 years...)I do not currently have any software firewalls running on the PC - with the DLink doing NAT routing, it's not really necessary.I use www.powerband.net.au as my ISP and AFAIK they do nothing to block/shape these ports.I have already tried setting the number of simultaneous downloads to 6 instead of 1 (am currntly downloading torrents).Does anybody have any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Even if your ISP does not throttle, if you're still on ports 6881-6889 then other ISPs may throttle your traffic to their customers.With only 128k upload, you probably cannot run more than 2-3 torrents and 1-2 downloading torrents without extreme slowdowns on at least one (download speeds <1 KB/sec).Your other settings may be problematic as well, because with only 512k download your connection may get "eaten up" both trying to maintain lots of connections at once and trying to make new ones (half open limit). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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