drunkendori Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 I'm running on a 1000kbps internet connection and am only getting download speed of up to 80kb/s even on torrents with 10000 seeds and 8000 torrents. Everything looks fine on the utorrent program. I have the green tick and my torrents are at blue status but the speed guide tells me that my port is not forwarded. There is this weird thing tho. I forwarded my current Utorrent port 56946 and tested it with www.whatsmyip.org and it says its open. I did a test and forwarded port 51122 and it timed out. I'm rather frustrated as I could not isolate the problem. Is there any way I can further troubleshoot this issue?Any help is greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Any chance you're confusing KiloBYTES/sec download/upload speeds with internet connection's bandwidth in kilobits/sec?There still may be a connection speed issue, but it's probably not really bad.A router isn't the only thing that can firewall you, do you also happen to have a software firewall? (...Such as one in antivirus/antispyware software...calling itself 'internet security options'.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkendori Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 I'm pretty sure I got the Kilobytes thingie right. I followed the guide and used the google calculator to derive my settings. The only firewall I have running is windows firewall which I have created the exception for utorrent. My antivirus/spyware programmes are Avast antivirus and ad-watch 2007. I've read that ad-watch does not conflict with utorrent and thats why I use it. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Have you created exception for uTorrent in Avast and Ad-watch in case they're blocking it?Any chance you have a hardware firewall as well?Have you set up a static LAN IP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkendori Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Avast and Ad-watch should be steering clear off utorrent. I just called my ISP and they told me that my connection does not allow me to setup a static IP. It uses DHCP. Aww well, too bad then.That should be the cause huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 A static IP is not a must for running uTorrent. If the Speed Guide's telling you that your port is not forwarded, then something must be up, though it's funny you get the green network status icon nevertheless.You can also test your ports here - https://www.dyndns.com/support/tools/openport.htmlAre you sure your ISP is not hostile to BitTorrent?Can you try the Openoffice torrents and see what the result is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Yeah, maxonline.com.sg *IS* hostile...very!But 80 KiloBYTES/sec download speed is still more than half of 1000 kilobits/sec download bandwidth. ...FAR more than I'd expected based on how hostile that ISP is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkendori Posted December 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 As a matter of fact Switeck, I'm getting 180kb/s as of now for one of my torrents with 327 seeds and 2392 Peers. Connected to 9 and 57 respectively. ajones81, results are positive from the site that you recommended. Does that mean that the utorrent port checker is faulty then? I understand that Maxonline is hostile under the list of bad ISP's because its a Tier 1 network. I'm not really very savvy and don't know how bad it is tho. Is it that serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 It's serious enough that I consider blocking Maxonline ips because I can't UPLOAD to them for more than a few seconds before they disconnect...and they seldom if ever download from me over 5 KiloBYTES/sec. I'm on ComCast Cable in the USA, but I seriously doubt ComCast is singling that ISP out...and it's more likely on Maxonline's end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkendori Posted January 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 Hmm wierd. well thanks for all the info Switeck. Its greatly appreciated. happy sharing guys! And a very happy new year to all of you who have gave me advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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