phungf Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Ok I am getting a headache from all this torrent business and internet researching. Charter flat out sucks because I can't even watch my tv and be online at the same time because it might be a faulty line! Sigh...Anyways guys heres the deal... if you guys/gals can help me that would be great!I'm using my desktop at home to download. I think its a 2.5ghz Intel Celeron with 1gb of ram and a 200gb HDD...My internet connection is the 10mbit download line... I test my speed and I get about around 9-10mbit so I'm happy. The first night I was downloading on utorrent with some torrents going at 1mb/s...now they all go down to under 100 kb/s. I really don't know what to do. There is so much potential with my 500gb external and my 200gb internal harddrive and a 10mbit line....ahhhhhI suck at portfowarding...I turned off my windows xp firewall with sp2...I upload faster than I download! I dont get it at all... I also have norton internet security, but that never used to affect the speed at all....Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 You may be on a shaped line, or added to shaping profiles, or shaped due to your port. . . What procedures have you followed to try and isolate the root cause?For a shaped line: can you still download HTTP traffic @ 10 Mbit? does an OpenOffice download still suffer 1Mbit download "cap"?For a shaped profile: does the speed increase back up to 10 Mbit at night? do you notice a relatively horizontal "line" for downloads in the Speed tab when stretching it to 5 minute intervals?For a shaped port: Try forwarding/changing your port rules in the router/modem/firewall AND uT. If you immediately notice speeds increasing, either set your uT to use UPnP + random port on startup OR forward a whole range of 10 ports to your LAN IP. Then just change it depending upon the day of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phungf Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 i dont know what a shaped line is but http traffic is fast...i dont really know much about changing the ports on my router and stuff it just gets confusing...i used the d link suggestion on how to make bittorent work with the router, but that just decreases the speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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