slow speed with USB modem

[auntymacassa]

I can't connect to the internet via a phone line as I live in a remote area of scotland, but I use a Vodafone USB modem. It works like a mobile phone and has a sim card. It connects at around 230 Kbps but I can only download from utorrent at under 1 kBs. I'm new to all this so perhaps I'm doing something wrong, or this USB modem won't work with torrents. I really don't have a clue. Can anyone help?

[Switeck]

That will likely be a very crippled connection at best -- barely better than dial-up for torrents.

Have you determined your effective upload speed?

Run Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and used the closest setting to that upload speed?

Have you changed any of µTorrent's advanced settings?

Have you tried the troubleshooting guide?:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992

[auntymacassa]

It wavers between 16 and 20Kbps on a test. I just can't seem to open a port. I've followed all the troubleshooting guides. The modem isn't listed in portforward.com so no help there. It doesn't help that I haven't a clue what I'm doing. i think I've grasped the concept of ip adresses and I've had a go at trying to open a port in the windows firewall and the router, but nothing seems to have any effect. I tried contacting vodafone, but the help desk hadn't a clue what i was saying! (I think it is more concerned with mobile 'phones.)

[Switeck]

Redo the troubleshooting guide...knowing how things failed is as important as knowing WHAT failed.

If you want more help, we need to know.

In Speed Guide (CTRL+G), if you can upload semi-steady between 16-20 KiloBYTES/sec then you may be able to get away with xx/192k setting but if not you'll need to use xx/128k. In either case, I'd reduce the total number of global and per torrent connections considerably due to the USB connection.