Having Speed Issues

[lWeil]

Hi i have only started using utorrent recently so i don't much thing about utorrent well. The thing is i've been getting low download speed.Normally i have pretty low speeds like 5kB/s - 30kB/s and very rarely i get high speed like 100kB/s. I've read some of the speed guides and have already tweak my utorrent but it doesn't really help much.

i went to speedtest.net and my results were roughly at about 12000kb/s download speed and 350kb/s upload speed. I've already forwarded a port and use the speed guide and set the settings to xx/384k.

The only thing i can think of is that my router is Linksys WRT54G v2 and i'm unsure whether it is the cause of this problem. I have a friend who tried downloading the same file as me and i could only hit 9kb/s while he could reach 100kb/s downloading speed. His speedtests results were roughly at 11000kb/s for download speed and 420kb/s for upload.

Hope that you guys can help me clarify these problems and thanks for your help.

[GTHK]

The usual problem for WRT54G's is the router crashing, so the router might not be the problem, yet

Are you port forwarded? What ISP are you on? Can you re-check your speedtest.net figures (if it's 1200 Kbits/s instead then 1200 Kbits/s ÷ 8 = 150 KBytes/s)? Try the Speed Guide setting one lower, and use an OpenOffice torrent to test your speed: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p

And if that fails: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992

[Switeck]

Maxonline in Singapore throttles BitTorrent and international traffic pretty heavily, so if your friend got 100 KB/sec...it was probably from other Maxonline customers.

[lWeil]

thanks for your replies.

My isp is maxonline and i've rechecked my speed at speedtest.net and yeah its still 12000kb/s and with 350kb/sec. I tried download the openoffice and my speed peaked at 45kb/sec. i have already portforwarded.

hmm so its the ISP that is causing this speed? oh yeah and my friend uses singnet.

[Switeck]

"hmm so its the ISP that is causing this speed?"

Most likely.

SingNet isn't really much if any better, they're also state-run from what I hear. Since both are in Singapore, they probably don't throttle much to each other.

[lWeil]

so other then enabling protocal encryption there's nothing else i can do?

oh yeah and my friend who uses singnet can easily reach speeds like 100mb/s and higher which is causing me to think that my speeds are lousy.

EDIT: just came back from my friend's house. I brought my laptop over and leeched his internet. Apparently singnet don't seem to throttles with bittorrent i could easily reach speeds like 400kb/s. At least this proved that the problem isn't with my computer.