cc666 Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 All of a sudden about a half hour ago, my download speeds became nil, and when I checked, my port 39501 TCP had become un-forwarded. I tried to reforward it, and got an error: "One or more of the requested ports is already allocated for system use.".EDIT:OK. I changed the listen port by clicking the "random" button, and that port gives me the same error message in my router config when I try to forward it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Did you set a static IP up for your computer outside of your router's DHCP range before you forwarded the port? What modem are you using? What router? What firewall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc666 Posted March 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 My router doesn't require a static IP, FreeSpace Open, which requires port forwarding to host multiplayer works fine the way I set it up.Siemens Speedstream 6520 router/modem, Norton 360 Firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 Try setting a static IP up outside of the DHCP range anyway, just to eliminate any possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc666 Posted March 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 Figured it out, uTorrent hovers at about .1KB/s for a while, then slowly goes up after about 5 minutes. I just didn't give it enough time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 So uh, I guess the moral of the story is: "patience is a virtue"...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc666 Posted March 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Actually, that wasn't the problem at all, as I've found out. All of a sudden, my global download speed will drop to less than 10kB/s. It will work at near-normal speeds for a few minutes, and then flatline. This seems to happen when I have a bunch of torrents on uTorrent, regardless of whether or not they're active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Could be ISP shaping. It takes several minutes to "kick in". Are you having Norton inspect utorrent's packets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc666 Posted March 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Well I've ruled out antivirus now as the problem, I'm currently using AVG 7.5 Free. And it's been this way for about 1.5 hours now.EDIT: It just spiked to about 50kB/s for a few seconds right now, back down to 10kB/s.EDIT2: It seems to be regularly spiking to about 150 kB/s, my average speed, quite regularly now. I think it has something to do with me using Firefox/Web browsing in general.EDIT3: It's stopped spiking, it did so 3 times, peaking the second time.EDIT4: The speed appears to be capped on each download individually as the global speed drops lower when I stop all but one download. The speed seems to be capped per torrent at about 1kB/s.Yet another edit: It seems to spike randomly, defying any description given on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Certainly sounds similar to ISP throttling to me (I can see at least one page indicating that Aliant might have started throttling). Have you tried µTorrent 1.8? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc666 Posted March 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Looking at the trends from last night (I left my PC on) it seems that it will drop for an hour or so, and then go back up for several hours. And if the darker green/red lines in the background of the speed tab mean the historical speed for the last day or whatever, it seems to cut out at near the same time. (or it could be a coincidence) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Hard to say. Such a behavior could be caused by a peer leaving, or something, but at the same time, it could (as I said) be an ISP issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc666 Posted March 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 It seems to be strictly random, as the peaks don't happen in accordance with the history.Doesn't really affect anything, thanks for your help, guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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