Improving upload speed

[crazlunatic]

I have absolutely no problem with download speed (can reach max of 350 kb/s on 6MBPS). That might be a bit low but I am being throttled (on Rogers) and am using port 1720 w/ encryption and port forwarded.

However, my upload speeds can't seem to exceed 4-7 kb/s. This is causing me hell on private trackers.

Can anyone help me? Tell me what to tweak or how to get higher upload speed. Thx.

[Switeck]

Rogers is seriously throttling the upload side for BitTorrent traffic.

Your 4-7 KiloBYTES/sec upload results is actually MORE than most people see...many of them see 0-4 KiloBYTES/sec.

[crazlunatic]

it's odd though because I can download at such great speed but so low upload.

Also I've uploaded at speeds of up to 40 kb/s this month, and 90 kb/s previous months.

[Switeck]

It may be a new change in your area -- Rogers is rolling out its anti-BitTorrent policies area-by-area instead of all at once.

It could be that Rogers branded you a "bandwidth hog" and only now started giving you crap results.

[crazlunatic]

that's really awful. i guess theres nothing i can do?

[Switeck]

Try testing with known, good torrents.

Use conservative settings so more of your limited bandwidth allowed by Rogers is spent sending/receiving parts of the torrent instead of BitTorrent and TCP/ip overheads.

It may also be possible to get off their "shit list" if you have one quiet month under their quota limits for the month...whatever value that may be.

You can also call them up and complain...and see if the anti-fraud groups in your country care that Rogers "ISP" really isn't interested in offering TRUE internet service and connectivity.