Download rate starts strongly but quickly decays to 1 kbps

[El Falcon]

Recently I have found that the download rate starts off strongly (100-200kbps), but quickly decays to <1kbps. I have a cable connection with Homechoice in the UK, who do not restrict bandwidth to uTorrent. I have a reasonable upload rate (60kbps). I can see that there are several peers to download the file from as initially I get high speeds, made up from several peers, but then the downloads on almost all of the becomes sero, even though I am uploading to some of the same peers.

Also I have enabled portforwarding successfully.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

[Ultima]

... What is your connection's maximum upload rate? If you're not sure, check the Speed Guide.

[El Falcon]

i have the max upload at 60 kbps, and it achieves an average of 45 kbps over several hours

however i just did a speed test and i have 440 d load and 45 upload. i imagine i need to reset the upload max to 45?

[Ultima]

... Is that in kilobytes per second, or kilobits per second? Care to give a screenshot of (or copy and paste) exactly what was shown on the speed test page?

[El Falcon]

Thanks for your help Ultima

I tested again and got a higher result

Speed Test Result

699 / 124 (Kbps)

(85.3 / 15.1 KB/sec)

here is the link

<a href="http://speedtest.dslreports.com"><img border=0 src="http://www.dslreports.com/im/31036837/15192.png"></a>

[Ultima]

Select xx/128k in the Speed Guide in µTorrent .