asherj123 Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 gettin a torrent with 300 seeds and only 20kb download speed . heres my settings, should i change anything?max upload rate -20max download rate - 350max number of connections - 350max number of connected peers - 350upload slots - 5number of active torrents - 3number of active downloads - 2half open *20thanks alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Selecting the proper upload rate in the Speed Guide would be a much better idea than arbitrarily selecting settings. BT has been known to throttle BitTorrent sometimes (might be a region and/or time-of-day thing). Lastly, just to make it clear, more seeds doesn't necessarily mean more speed (if that was what you were thinking). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbuz1970 Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 asherj123 i also am with bt/yahoo >8MB.I get about 2.2meg because of my distance from the exchange.For the last few weeks DL's have been really slow during the day but at 12 midnight i max out @230KB down.This stops at about 8am and goes to back to my normal daytime speed of 45KB down.It doesn't matter what/where i DL from.Even the Open Office files which are supposed to be on a really fat pipe.I got a green tick in UT and all firewalls are forwarded and ports forwarded.Double check your settings and read the FAQ but i think BT/Yahoo is throttling connections during the day.PS. Does any one know if there is a way to check if you are being throttled ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Pick correct settings in the Speed Guide and try a test torrent. If it runs slowly, then chances are likely that you're being throttled. IIRC, British Telecom has been reported to throttle *sometimes*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butmuncher Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 ayup i have the same problem, and am 100% not firewalled, being experienced in bit torrent downloads i know full well i have everything setup correctly in xp, utorrent and my router, all 3 say i'm wide open, but why do i get crappy bittorent speeds.I have 6mb connection with bt and if i dl anything none bittorrent off the web i get my full speed, as soon as i use bittorent i get somewhere in the region off 10kbs sometimes going up to 50kbs on the odd occasion(50% of the time i have no problems though), even while this is happening i can download the average none bittorrent stuff at full speed but bittorrent speeds are the same crap), now its not allways like this, sometime i could be dl at 540kbs( bittorrent) then suddenly it can go down to 10kbs and stay there!!!!!!!!!!!I'd have to say from all my experience that british telecom are somehow capping my broadband speeds, i've tried different ports but the speed still stays the same, and i know how easy it is for you guys to say set the upload correctly ect, but i can confirm that it is not that.IT'S DEF SOMETHING TODO WITH BT BROADBAND!!!!I thought id register on this site after reading this post, its probly not the posters fault, its something todo with bittorrent and bt broadband.When your dl bittorrent dude goto a normal website and download something over http ect and you should have full speed, i've had this bullcrap going on for months and months now, it's proper wack!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 Edit: its shit that you can't delete your own post anymore if you missread something and post nonsense.Ignore this post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quaternions Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 You're a bit late to the party...http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=18478 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butmuncher Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 ER ta dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geeza_1 Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 You are preaching to the choir! I too get no better than 20kB/s on any torrent. The Indian helpdesk is just an insult.I have spoken to some people in England, who all either claim they are "not technical" or "that is a matter for the techical helpdesk" and push you from one useless twat to the next.I have already written my letter of cancellation.What kind of a company ties you into a 12 month contract? I'll tell you - one that knows its service is shite and needs tricks to keep you! Absolutely disgraceful.Bunch of ignorant useless wankers!Here is a quote from the website on BT Broadband Option 3 - "With a fast broadband connection, you can now do so much more online, like streaming video and music, making voice and video calls and playing games. Web pages load almost instantly, and sending and receiving large email attachments or downloading a music track takes only seconds."This is a joke! I am seriously angry. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO AVOID BT LIKE THE PLAGUE!This is the only way we can beat these useless dickheads, as Ofcom seem happy for this to continue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 MORE about BT Broadband:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=18478&p=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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