Newbie with slow speed. With these settings is this...

[TrUbLu]

.. what it should be? Or can I get better?

Firstly my downloads are coming in at 20-25 kB/s. I have "# read the setup guide properly and in its entirety". Three speed tests [no other downloads running] gave me:

UL

16.65, 16.96, 16.37 kB/s

DL

151, 123, 141 kB/s

My ISP plan is 1500/256. Under the utorrent speed guide I've set the 'Connection Type' as xx/128k. I've followed everything else in the setup guide.

Modem router is a Netgear DG632. Used 'portforward.com' to enable port forwarding and have set a static IP for my pc. This I believe was successful. When running utorrent. I have the green tick at the bottom of the taskbar showing 'network okay'.

Stats of file I'm downloading now:

seeds 39[3166]

peers 16[2781]

DL spd 14.1 kB/s

UL spd 8.1 kB/s

ratio 3.99

I believe I picked a download that was popular so I thought it would be good for testing. Is the DL spd correct or can I improve on this?

Also I disabled my windows firewall [only FW I'm using]. This did not make any difference.

Hope someone can be of assistance here. Thank you.

[Firon]

You might wanna try xx/192k instead.

[TrUbLu]

Thanks your reply Firon. When I read it the DL speed had dropped further. Tried xx/192. hasn't helped at all.

This is frustrating when I know normal downloading through the internet FTP is around 150 kB/s.

[Firon]

Have you tried turning on Protocol Encryption?

[TrUbLu]

Protocol Encryption is enabled. And I have checked 'Allow incoming legacy connections'.

edit:

For those who have a Netgear DG632 modem/router and are reading this thread because of speed or disconnecting issues.....

DUMP THE NETGEAR DG632 !!!

Through this forum and others I found many DG632 owners with the same problem(s) I was having. Bit the bullet and changed the modem router. Now own a Linksys WAG54G and everything is okay.