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[sdogg1m]

I too am struggling with decent d/l speeds.

My port forwards correctly.

My ISP test at 6MB down and 2MB up and thus I have set the Maximum Upload Rate to 150 kB

When I d/l the OpenOffice program I get a blazing 1MB/sec d/l rate. However, I noticed that the upload rate is close to 0.

When I d/l other files I notice that the upload rate shoots to 150 kB (Also, the d/l rate gets high) but then lowers to 50 kB or less (And the d/l rate gets pathetic).

Could it be possible that my ISP (Comcast) is throttling the p2p? Or is my upload rate to high? I should be able to sustain the initial u/l and d/l speeds.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

-----Update-----

Hmm...Changed the Maximum Upload Rate to 50 and now I getting 3x faster d/l (100kb+).

What is causing this? Why advertise 6MB d/l and 2MB u/l if your going to have problems by going above 50KB u/l

Hope this helps other Comcast users.

-----Update-----

Grrr.... After two minutes the d/l dropped to 35KB and the u/l rate drop to 40KB

I did a ping (www.google.com) with utorrent open and closed

Open =

4 Sent

4 Received

1320ms Average Time

Closed =

4 Sent

4 Received

41ms Average Time

The program should not cause that much of a bottleneck at 30KB d/l and 40 u/l. Hope this additional information helps.

----Info----

Status light is green

Port is 61824 and forwarded

Speed Guide settings:

Upload limit 50KB

Connections 100

Max. Active Torrents 6

Upload slots 6

Connections (Global) 600

Max. active downloads 5

net.max_halfopen set to 8

Win XP Home SP2

No Firewall, No Anti-Virus, and no Anti-spyware installed

Router: Netgear WPN824 (Rangemax MIMO). Modem: Motorola Surfboard SB5101

ISP: Comcast Cable

Download: 6MB Upload: 2MB

[Ultima]

Run the Speed Guide's speed tester and tell us what the results are -- especially the upload.

[sdogg1m]

Test results:

5098Kb/s Download

2226Kb/s Upload

This is with no torrents running, etc.

[Zierham]

For what its worth, im having nearly identical results--

Using comcast, have approx 8mbps/900kbps according to various speed tests, and yet I cannot maintain an upload higher than 35ish KBps without choking up my connection.

Kind of frustrating to be getting 228d/l and 35u/l... especially when running on ratio'ed private trackers

Anyway, anyone have any words of wisdom about this?

[Switeck]

If you're on ComCast Cable ISP, then even a speed test may give strange results due to their "PowerBoost" feature. It allows "burst" speeds beyond normal maximums for about 30 seconds, but only works maybe once an hour. You can't use the temporary extra bandwidth it offers reliably in µTorrent.

...so, you probably need either xx/384k or xx/768k, depending on whether you have the 6 megabit/sec down(and 384 kilobits/sec up) plan or 8 megabit/sec down(and 768 kilobits/sec up) plan.

[Zierham]

@Switeck - Yeah, I was in the middle of reading a post about that when you responded... Have scaled back to the 768k settings, but utorrent still will not reliably upload at more than 35KBps. Is this something on my end?

How can I check my "actual" sustained upload rates via speed tests since obviously "listed speeds" arent actually actual? Just seems that a 8mbps/768kbps rated connection should be able to sustain more than 35kBps up...

[sdogg1m]

Switeck my issue is not with Powerboost. I am acutally paying for 6 down and 2 up w/o powerboost. My issues is that when ever I set my upload speed higher than 35k then my torrent's download suffers. The same torrent will download 4x faster when the upload rate is set at 35k.

Is there anyway to change this?

If only I could d/l without having to u/l!!!

[Switeck]

Well, I think you better check your documents again concerning your connection.

You're not getting 2 megabits/sec upload if you can only upload about 35-40 KiloBYTES/sec.

Instead, that's only ~384 kilobits/sec upload speed.

I couldn't even find any reference to a service plan on ComCast's website that offered more than 1 megabits/sec upload speed...and that was only for the "Comcast Workplace Enhanced" package.