Torrents going very slow + red arrow

[sharkie_shah]

hi i'v been with Utorrent for a couple of weeks now and from yesterday iv been having some problems my speed and upload speed only goes up to like 0.2 and its gone for good i still have my peers and seeds so can one plz tell me how do somthing or help me coz its doing my head in email at sharz24081995@hotmail.co.uk

and a red arrow comes up straight away and my tracker status ses offline but yet its still going on but with no progress

[Firon]

Read the stickies.

[Switeck]

I am pretty sure your ISP hates you and wishes for your BitTorrent experience to be so painful that you never do it again.

...and no, this isn't a joke reply.

Do some searches here and via GOOGLE for your ISP and BitTorrent problems or throttling or blocking.

[sharkie_shah]

ur not helping switeck but thanks anyway

[Switeck]

Your ISP tries to cripple BitTorrent...you're getting exactly that.

You seem to be on:

Tiscali UK Limited

Here's an example post:

http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/t25798.html

Here's another...your ISP isn't picky about how much it ruins consumer experience:

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/08/13/bbc_iplayer/index.html

Unfortunately, if encryption settings in µTorrent don't help...there's not much we can do.

[trabb]

I'm on Tiscali UK, and can confirm that they are utter goons. I've had the same problem with all downloads refusing to connect to the apparently timed-out trackers.

You can forget downloading from Friday evenings through to Sunday night and especially during Tiscali's "peek hours" from about 4pm to sometime after 11pm every night because it's painfully slow. I usually get 1-3kBs down and up on 1152kbs/288kb (I live out in the woods, fastest line I can get thanks to BT!). I've talked to other people on Tiscali and they have the same problem.

Week nights are your best bet for better speeds. No amount of setup tweaking will make any difference to speeds for the rest of the time. If your downloads die totally then just don't download for a few days, usually the limit is taken off and you can hammer them for all the bandwidth you can!

[sharkie_shah]

iv about to switch to sky and i do admit tiscali is a complete rip off somtimes they have these next problems and it doesent connet at all then they say sorry

ps.switeck how did u know i was on tiscali

p.s.s and i kno this is completly differnt subject but i cant downlaod internet 7 it ses my security is blocked but once i did install succesfully but i got rid of it by acident so plz someone help me

[Switeck]

µTorrent message forum moderators and administrators can see poster's ips...from there I do a reverse DNS here:

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/whois/whois.html

...since I was pretty sure by your ip alone that you were somewhere in Europe.

This lookup is more general-purpose, but doesn't always get the reverse DNS for all the continents:

http://www.dslreports.com/whois

And yeah, they really do want you gone...make them miserable before you go.

Companies whose profit model is based on consumer fraud don't deserve to be treated nicely IMO.

[sharkie_shah]

thanks switeck ur a good help and i will 100% follow ur adivice

[Switeck]

Good Luck...I hope your next ISP is much better.