Ayepecks Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Right now I'm only getting about 30KB/s down on µTorrent. According to the DSL Reports speedtest (the one provided with µTorrent, obviously), my download speed is capable of 949KB/s... so I should be getting more, correct?I'm running Windows Vista, and my router is a Linksys WRT54GS version 6.0 (serial prefix of CGN9), so it's not one of the routers listed in the stickied post (http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=3456). I've tried the Vista patch for enabling more than 10 open ports, and I've done the port forwarding for the router, but it's still not getting any faster.I've toggled the Windows firewall on and off and it doesn't really do anything to affect µTorrent's speed. I've disabled my antivirus, too, so I know that's not the problem. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to fix it? Sorry if I'm being vague, I'm not sure what all you guys would need to know to help me here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invy Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Try not leeching too much. (i.e. set your upload higher) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted June 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 My upload is fairly high -- I'm uploading more than I'm downloading right now. My upload rate is 40KB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Did you try disabling Window Vista's file indexing service?I think another message thread here told how to do that, do a search for it.(I don't have Vista.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted June 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Just did that -- still not much of a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Does µTorrent have the green light at bottom to say it's not firewalled?If not, you may need more drastic measures to unfirewall it -- such as checking on whether your modem also contains a firewall and/or mini-router that needs to be configured or disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted June 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Yes, it does.Now the speed's better (after messing around with as many settings as I could think of and looking at the other topics in this section), but it fluctuates greatly. One minute it'll be getting 70KB/s, then it drops back down to 30KB/s for 5 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Did you run Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and choose xx/384k setting? That sounds very close to your upload bandwidth and probably will be best.Have you tried the slow speed troubleshooting FAQ here?:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 That helped a little bit... now I seem to be getting 70KB/s fairly frequently, with a few bumps in the download rate here and there. I'll give the troubleshooting FAQ a better look -- I just scanned through it a few days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Did you confuse kilobits/sec with KiloBYTES/sec in your speed test results?If so, 949 kilobits/sec is only about 90-110 KiloBYTES/sec usable download speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted June 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 Here were the results: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quaaack Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 Divide kilobits by 8 to get kilobytes. Thats around 180 kilobytes/s, I have a similar connection speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 Wireless internet connections tend to be far more limited than equal-speed wired equivalents.This means you probably cannot use DHT or as many ip-to-ip connections as an equivalent-speed wired connection...or speeds (if not outright connectivity!) will suffer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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