Utter_iMADNESS Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 I noticed about a week ago that my downloads/uploads were becoming really slow. I thought that it might just be a slow torrent but today I began to download many torrents in the morning. Everything was fine, the I was able to download up to 600kB/s (even though I used to be able to download at up to 900kB/s). But at exactly 4:30pm my download speed plummeted to 50kb/s. At exactly 6:00pm both my download and upload speed dropped to 25kB/s. I wasn't able to confirm this before since I used to be at school all day but I was downloading torrents all day today. But there are random times where the speed jumps up to 140kB/s but only lasts for a few minutes. Can anyone help me out because it slows down at 4:30 which is about the only time that I can download torrents (when I get back from school). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2good2b Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 search for your ISP in the forum and find out whether they are known to traffic shape on Bitorrent. Sounds like it...4.30pm being the beginning of the normal user's rush hour on the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utter_iMADNESS Posted March 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Thanks for the quick response.I'm currently using Bell Canada. It says that it limits Bittorrent bandwidth and limits bandwidth for users with a high traffic volume. But I've been using uTorrent for 6 months with great dl/up speeds, but it's only been like this for a week. And I don't think that they would limit my bandwidth because my current plan has unlimited bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2good2b Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 ISP's often cap Power Users once these are identified. Or maybe your ISP just recently decided to generally introduce these new service times.Anyway. You could try to use the scheduler to only use torrent during off-peak hrs for downloading and upload only during the evening hours.Or check out 1.8 alpha with forced encryption and no incoming legacy connections to circumvent the shaping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utter_iMADNESS Posted March 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 I just did a speed test on speedtest.net and I got a normal speed for me: about 2100kb/s dl and about 300kb/s up. So could this have to do with uTorrent itself? I checked all my settings and made sure that scheduler wasn't interfering. Anyway, thanks for the recommendation. I'll download 1.8 alpha right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2good2b Posted March 3, 2008 Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 ISPs shape traffic on the protocol bitorrent because it's such a traffic intensive application wheras normal webtraffic is not effected by shaping at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utter_iMADNESS Posted March 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 Okay. So I downloaded 1.8 alpha with the forced encryption and no incoming legacy options and it hadn't made a difference in the speeds.Would I be able to get through the traffic shaping by using a proxy to hide my IP address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 3, 2008 Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 A proxy should work if the traffic is fully encrypted. But BitTorrent may refer directly to your internet ip and not your proxy's ip...so it may still fail.Also, almost any proxy that is free (and many that aren't!) won't allow speeds faster than you're already getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utter_iMADNESS Posted March 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 Alright then. Thanks everyone for your help. As I see it I have 3 options: live with it (which I probably won't), change ISPs, or somehow get my current ISP to get rid of the traffic shaping by using my amazing nagging skills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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