Norton 360 help

[fofo999]

Hi I am running latest utorrent and have Norton 360, I am getting the worst download speeds in months for the past week.Any help pls.

Here are some data

200 global

100 max torrents

3 # uploads

Enable local peer checked

Limit local peer checked

Max # active torrents 4

Max # active downloads 3

Upload rate 65 max

thks

[jewelisheaven]

I'm am almost positive that many connections does not come up by default under Ctrl-G xx/512 .

Additionally have you followed the troubleshooting guide?

Verified same speeds with http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ ?

etc..

[Switeck]

It's your ISP, they've started throttling BitTorrent traffic to 30 or 60 KiloBYTES/sec during peak hours. Even "off" hours are probably throttled to less than 150 KiloBYTES/sec.

...I don't know if your upload speed is affected by their throttling or not.

But it means you'll probably need to use Scheduler and reduce your settings.

[jewelisheaven]

Amazing Switeck to the rescue. I'm amazed at the guy's ability for telepathy. I didn't even know what ISP he was on, which was actually going to be my next question

Unfortunately when the problem is the ISP messing with your bandwidth there is nothing else uT can do for you

[Switeck]

I think the poster is on Bell Canada (Sympatico ?)...as a moderator I can see ips of posters. The message board even supports reverse DNS lookup...but a LOT of the time it returns nothing and I have to do more robust searches to determine what ISP the poster is on. It's a no-brainer to plug that ISP name into GOOGLE along with "BitTorrent problems OR throttling OR blocks" to see if that ISP is "hostile" to BitTorrent.

Thread about Sympatico throttling BitTorrent:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19066934

A lot of ISPs have started major rollouts of throttling or near-complete blocking just in the last year. I expect it will get harder to run BitTorrent clients even on "good" ISPs in a year unless encryption methods improve greatly.

So long as you have bandwidth greater than dial-up speeds, µTorrent's settings can be modified to try to maximize download and upload speeds for the files you're after...even if it means taking (a lot?) longer to get.

Case in point, reducing max connections will help devote more of the capped limit speed to actually moving the files instead of just maintaining lots of connections.

[jewelisheaven]

Awww, I feel like you just took the wizard away from me http://www.scifi.com/tinman

It was supposed to be magic. You ruined the trick for me

[Switeck]

There's still a trick being done...finding a post where someone reasonably competent says how an ISP is throttling/blocking BitTorrent. Narrowing it down in a GOOGLE search is completely hit-or-miss, and if there were a really good way to make that quicker and easier...I want to learn it.

[fofo999]

OK thks I took out Norton anyways but still get the low speeds, I'm still checking my speeds on net with tests, if anyone has some tweak changes for utorrent pls go ahead and write back.

Thks

[Switeck]

Do try out various encryption settings + extra features in µTorrent turned on and off.

I would not expect any big increase in download or upload speeds...but you may get lucky for a couple days/weeks.

[fofo999]

Ok thks I will try the different encryption settings but I think you are right Bell is playing with the speeds.I used to get 240-280 kbps now I'm lucky if I get 60-70.