download speed seems to be capped at 6kbps

[Hunklethorpe]

I've tried to follow the help from other posts but have had no success, and even the test torrents don't go any faster

any help is greatly appreciated

[Ultima]

1) BT has been known to throttle before (at certain times of the day?)

2) We still need more information. Check the sticky.

[Hunklethorpe]

The network's fine, its got the green logo thing, and the speed is capped all the time - its never exceeded 6kbps.

According to the port checker everything is fine and my settings are:

Upload limit: 1kb/s

Connections: 50

Max Active Torrents: 50

Upload Slots: 5

Connections (global):200

Max Active Downloads: 5

I use windows XP SP2 and have AVG free edition

it should also be noted that other programs such as steam or limewire do not experience this problem

[torrero]

upload limit 1kb/s

lol. of course your download limits at 6kb/s.

Please stay away from Bittorrent, leecher. We dont like you.

[Hunklethorpe]

hey, there's no need for that, the only reason my upload limits been set to 1kb/s was to see if it speeds up the download time

[nos_slived]

http://utorrent.com/faq.php#What_does_Download_Limited_in_the_status_bar_mean.3F

[Hunklethorpe]

ah that explains why its capped at 6, but it doesn't explain why its still slow or was before i capped the upload speed

[Switeck]

Did you run Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and choose a setting that matched your UPLOAD speed?

[Hunklethorpe]

i have now, but its made no difference

[nos_slived]

What are your download and upload speeds, and what did you set the speed guide at?

[Hunklethorpe]

download speed was 701kb/s and upload was 211kb/s

set the connection type to 192k

[nos_slived]

What speed do you get with µTorrent downloading the first Slackware torrent (see signature).

[Hunklethorpe]

downloading the first slackware torrent come up at around 60kb/s

would i be right in thinking the problems with the torrent rather than the software?

[nos_slived]

Still only 68.5% of your tested download speed, but that could be due to a changing download speed or other network traffic. In short, it is still slower than it theoretically should be, but if don't get close to 60kB/s on other torrents, it's a problem with a slower swarm, not the client.

[Hunklethorpe]

cool, thanks for all the help

[Switeck]

Ah, you're on BT (British Telecom)!

There's been NUMEROUS threads here lately about how that ISP majorly cripples BitTorrent traffic between about 6 PM and midnight (6 hours a day).