malaujai Posted May 11, 2007 Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 I have used uTorrent for quite a long time now, and a year ago (even after my ISP decided to throttle BT), I didn't really have many problems with BT. I was still getting 200-300 kb/s speeds on popular torrents with lots of seeds and peers from public trackers.However, for the most part of the past 12 months, I have lived on residence and did not use BT very often (except on weekends using my laptop). I needed to reformat my desktop (which I used at residence) and installed a fresh install of XP SP2 and uTorrent 1.7 beta. The problem I am having is that my speeds have dropped considerably, to around 20-30 kb/s on the same torrents of which I was getting 200-300 before. I tried the openoffice torrent and got 80 kb/s (not sure if this is considered a lot for that specific torrent/tracker). One of the major differences I have noticed in comparison to before, is that I am now connected to MUCH fewer seeds. In most cases, I am connected to less than 5 on a torrent with 2000+ seeds. This is the same for torrents on different trackers, and I am sure these trackers are public and not private.I patched the TCP file to allow more connections, and have tried downgrading to 1.6.1, but the problem still remains.I have not yet tried BTing with my laptop (I haven't changed any settings) yet, but I will be tonight.Any ideas?EDIT: Forgot to mention that I am on Rogers (I get around 7 mbps down), and a wired connection behind a router that I have port forwarded correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 11, 2007 Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 Throttling varies per area with Rogers, and they must've put in a much more effective method for your area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malaujai Posted May 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 Hmm that is probably the case, but what I am concerned/wondering about, is if the fact that I am now connected to much fewer seeds than before is a result of the throttling?throttling = less connected seeds?as we speak, I am connected to 7 out of 765 seeds for one torrent.also, for encryption, should I be using forced or enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 11, 2007 Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 Throttling = slow speeds, among other thingsUnfortunately, encryption is almost guaranteed to fail under Rogers. Try forcing it, I guess, but I seriously doubt it'll help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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