problem with vista home premium

[GordonM]

A mate has a problem with utorrent which we have tried to troubleshoot.

His laptop has Vista Home Premium.

All firewall settings have been checked and are ok.

All utorrent settings are identical to my setup.

We connected his laptop to my network, and although my machine (vista business) gets great speeds, his laptop gets very poor speed, a yellow or red conenction icon and problems when testing if the port is open.

This means the problem is not firewall or router related, but something in his vista setup.

He can connect to only 10 or 11 users at once and each tends to get identical download speed of a max of about 6k/sec - its actually uncanny watching the peers all connecting at the same speed.

The same torrent on my machine gets hundreds of connections totalling over 1.3Mbps

I have read that there are connection limits built into vista home.

I tried applying them but having huge problems getting access rights to do so - even as a vista administrator.

Is there an easy solution to this?

any help appreciated.

g.

[jewelisheaven]

... If it's not http://utorrent.com/faq.php#What_does_Download_Limited_in_the_status_bar_mean.3F it sounds like he's just got some filtering software installed CfosSpeed, Netlimiter, Bandwidth Monitor, etc.

[GordonM]

No filtering software of any kind,

No other limitation settings

No other firewall etc

We went through his and my utorrent settings and they were all identical

I'm sure its vista home needing tweeked to allow more connections?

[jewelisheaven]

If it's hard limited to 6, it's download limited... has to be

I'm sorry I have no idea about Vista customizing... I'd recommend searching the forum for "vista netsh" that's the only customizing I know of.