richgcook Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Hello hello and helloOkay I've spent a few days on the utorrent forums, reading Ultima's speed checks and manual, and reading other people's issues but I am still stumped.I've been using utorrent for a while now and I just don't get decent speeds. I admit that when I download something that has 0 leechers and 100+ seeds I have great speeds (70-150k) but recently it has just been terrible. 0.9k and 7k max. Now these have been with reasonable seeded files.OS: Windows Vista Home Premiumutorrent: 1.7.7Firewall: McAfee security centre and Windows Firewall (all accepting utorrent)Internet: fairly good bt connection with 2mbRouter: Netgear (although this is just temporary and results were still the same with old router)My utorrent speed settings are as followed:xx/384kPort: 6690and I have gone through all the speed checks that Ultima has posted.So I'm not sure what other information you need to help so I apologise if I missed anything out but I'll help as much I can.Thanks,Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 How do the test torrents in the checklist run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richgcook Posted July 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 I get a maximum of 25k/sec, which is obviously lots better, but not as it should be.I have to update and say that I managed too get the green light and my port forwarded properly... so that's a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 British Telecom in the UK throttle BitTorrent traffic (if their networking equipment can identify it...but it seems it can) to ~25 KiloBYTES/second max at least during "peak hours" now. Maybe in the dead of night from ~2 AM to ~7 AM you might get better speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richgcook Posted July 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 Weird. Well right now I'm in Munich, and have been for three months, but I am going back to the UK in a week. Just seems weird that I seem to get the same problems over two networks. Not sure what they use here.Maybe it is just a whole throttle thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 LOTS of ISPs worldwide throttle BitTorrent heavily now. However your problem/s may still be something on your computer slowing uTorrent down.Have you asked around/done internet searches to determine if the slow speeds you're seeing is due to that ISP throttling BitTorrent traffic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richgcook Posted July 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 BitTorrent will invent something else soon I bet and cure all our speed problems and will go undetected And no not yet. I just figured it was a problem that you guys had maybe dealt with before. That's cool. I'll have a look around. I'm only here for a week more so it doesn't matter that much but it was just in case the problem was similar back home.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 When ISPs block and throttle non-HTTP traffic, there's only so much "inventing" that BitTorrent INC. can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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