Extremely slow download speed

[gt725]

I've read Ultima's Sticky and done everything, but nothing seems to work. The Open Office torrents also don't work, and are as slow as other torrents. I've set the settings to ones suitable for my connection, but it still doesn't work. My downloads usually stay around 2~6 KB/s, and once in a LONG time it suddenly shoots up to around 100 KB/s. I have the green light on, and forwarded my port.

I'm not sure if my ISP is throttling my connection, because I live in Taiwan.

Any ideas?

[jewelisheaven]

Ok, so

1) You have checked to make sure you have the correct forwarding settings for your connection to your ISP
2) You have checked to make sure you are able to download from international torrents and are throttled
3) Are you on Hinet by chance? That's the only .TW provider I know of.
4) Have you checked the encryption settings under Ctrl-P -> BitTorrent ?

[gt725]

1. What do you mean? I only know that the port is open.

2. I haven't tried international torrents yet. However, most torrents I download have peers from many different countries.

3. I'm not on Hinet ( I use a cable company called Asia-Pacific).

4. Encryption is enabled.

I'm only connecting to around 10% of seeds on one torrent i'm downloading ATM , and it averages around 4 KB/s. The other torrent i'm not connected to any seeds out of 90, and it rarely goes over 1 KB/s..

[jewelisheaven]

OK, I'm not sure whether or not about the OOo torrent, I presumed that the peers you connected to were international... ALL the peers I always connect to are in the USA (where I am located).

To verify, when you are connected to the OOo torrent the status icon turn into a green checkmark and you see "I" peers?

If you are only connecting to a limited number of peers in any given torrent it is possible they cannot accept incoming connections (in the peers tab, under the Flags column, denoted by 'I')...

Depending on the limitations of your ISP you may need to try the extreme of Forced encryption and Disallowing encrypted connections to see an increase in speed :/

[gt725]

Could this be caused by my router? My cable modem is a SB5101 (surfboard) and my wireless router (this computer is connected physically, with one other computer on the wireless) is a D-Link WBR-2310. I was thinking there might be a Double NAT issue, but the light is green. If there is a problem, how do i fix it? I seem to have lost the cd for the cable modem...

[jewelisheaven]

What double NAT means is that both your modem and router have routers in them, and usually ISPs don't allow you to access their modem to forward ports. IF: you cannot get your connection to work with peers and seeds and have a green check in the status with openoffice torrents on your current setup about the only recourse is to a) verify it works with just the modem change the port in the router to some high number 50000/65534 is better c) propagate the changes to uT and d) repeat.

If using just the modem to download through torrents works fairly close to your advertised/rated linespeed from the ISP then the problem is relegated to the realm of router configuration/setup.As I have not heard of that model I cannot recommend any other specifics. Checking this forum for other D-Link models around should help in that arena.. as well as searching other forums. I"ve provided a sample search for you in that arena.