Overall download speed limited to 30kb/s

[Reusable]

hi,

I've done the port forwarding in my router for my static ip address.

Checked that my firewall was letting utorrent related things through. And still the overall download speed would not go over 12kb/s.

So i re-installed utorrent. Checked the port was forwarded etc. firewall etc. Now the new overall download speed is 30kb/s.

I'm completely baffled since earlier it was running at 200kb/s.

When things started going wrong. The blue icons turned to red. Trackers went offline.

At the bottom of the screen, it showed a red icon, saying that my port was blocked etc. Now its been replaced by an exclaimation mark say "no incoming connections".

and to the left of it , it says "Download limited".

I'm using a BT home hub btw.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Switeck]

Your download speed becomes crippled when your upload speed is limited too low.

This is causing the "Download Limited" message as well!

However setting upload speed to "unlimited" is potentially even worse.

BT Central is known to throttle BitTorrent traffic to 30 KiloBYTES/sec (or less!) at least during "Peak Hours"...whatever time that may be.

[h0rnytoad1]

i get that speed problem too, but im in quebec, using sympatico. and mostly between the hours of before 3pm and until 2am

[jewelisheaven]

Trying the new 1.8 pre-beta uT may help you... If the automated countermeasures the ISP you have uses are "last generation". Link here.

Be sure to thank the uT (and azureus) developers in the official appreciation thread or better encryption thread.

[Switeck]

Bell Canada (Sympatico) DEFINITELY does the same type of throttling too. It's become very popular with many British ISPs as well. Beats totally blocking BitTorrent during peak hours, but not by much.